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Show ! LARGER RESERVOIR I TO REPLACE MAMMOTH I ' I Investigation preliminary to the building of a new dam below and to replace, if wished, the Mammoth dam recently washed out near Price were recently conducted by citizens of the region and government irrigation officers. of-ficers. L. M. Winsor, irrigation engineer en-gineer for the U. S. department of agriculture returned to Salt Lake the middle of the week after conferring with the Carbon county people. The dam as proposed will be located lo-cated in Pleasant valley and will be designated to hold from 75,000 to 100,-j 100,-j 000 acre feet of irrigation water and will be about 75 feet high. In addition addi-tion to the natural flood waters, the amount stored up should, according to specifications, supply sufficient irrigation ir-rigation water for 60,000 acres. No estimates were made at the meeting at Price, Mr. Winsor said. After the official inspection of the property about 100 citizens met to discuss dis-cuss the matter. It was recommended that an irrigation district be organized and that the government be asked to finance and carry out the work of construction, under the new irriga- j tion district law passed by the state legislature providing for the organi- j zation of irrigation projects. A committee, of six was appointed at the meeting to present the matter i to the government authorities and also to the state to see what can best be accomplished. It consists of C. R. Marcuson, A. Bryner, H. G. Mathis, ' Lars Gunderson, A. Z. Marshall and J. C. Jensen all prominent citizens of Price. This body will investigate the I feasibility of the enterprise. I "The proposed project is the one ' thing to bring that region into its own," said Mr. Winsor. "It means more to that section's future than to , the mines." ' j Mr. Winsor co-operated with the county agent of Carbon county, W. W. ' Sullivan, through whom' the movement move-ment started and at whose request Mr. Winsor made the investigations. Tom Culp arrived home from Denver Den-ver yesterday morning bringing Mrs. 1 Culp who was taken ill in the Colorado Colo-rado metropolis. Tom pronounces the new steam auto ready to assemble and a complete success. A leading automobile engineer from Detroit has been watching the making of the engine en-gine and he says it is just what the best auto engineers have been looking look-ing for for years. Price News-Advocate. |