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Show "rLAN TO RECLAIM IMMENSE TRACT Utah Capital Propose Spending Half Million on Land Close to Reno. ! Messrs. O, B, Berglund and W. N. Tollestrup of this city are to be complimented com-plimented ou the outlook of the project pro-ject they have had in hand since last proven signal financiul successes. Prior to their undertaking this pro-' pro-' ject, they made extinctive studies of the rainfall and run-off of the country coun-try involved, and procured the best engineering talent available to make the necessary investigations aud rre-liminary rre-liminary surveys, before tbey plan-ued plan-ued to go ahead with the undertaking. undertak-ing. " 'It is a cold blooded financial proposition with us,' said Mr. Tollestrup Tol-lestrup last night,' and if we could not see, from our compiled data aud records, a profit abeid for ourselves aud our associates, you may rest assured as-sured that we should never have gone ahead with the deal.' "Salt Lake capital U chiefly behind the enterprise. Mr. Bergluud has personally invested a large sum of money in the company, and Mr. Tollestrup Tol-lestrup is also heavily interested fi-naecially. fi-naecially. The expansion of agricultural industries in-dustries in that section which will fol low the completion of the project just spring and which gives such high promise of success as to command the favorable and extensive notice given them under the above caption in the Nevada State Journal, published at Reno, Nev., and which The Gazstte gladly copies in part, as follows : "Incorporation papers will shortly be filed, under the laws of Nevada, for the Truckee-California Irrigation company. The capit iliz-itiou will be q nfin nnn ,i ;,;,-. .,1 CAvin described will mean the necessan establishment here of mills and fac tories for the conversion of many of the farm products into commodities--beet sugar, alfalfa meal, cereals, etc. ' It takes no graybejrded prophet to figure out what the ultimate effect of the project will mean to Reno." shares of $50 each. O. B. Berglund of Gunnison, Utah, will be president of the company, and W. E. Tollestrup Tolles-trup of Salt Like, secretary, "Thnse are the bald, unadorned facts regarding a project which will mean the expenditure of half a million mil-lion of dollars in the near viciuity of Reno, and the opening up for cultivation cultiva-tion of immense tracts of fertile land to the northward of the city- -laud, which it is well known, only awaits the application of water to make it yield immeus9 revenues tc those who will cultivate it. "Since early in June of this jear Messrs. Btrclund and TollestruD have been working quietly on this project. During the summer the preliminary pre-liminary surveys were made by a Reno Re-no civil engineer, and the course of the necessary canals, tunnels, etc., aud the reservoir sites, were platted nd recorded. But the utmost secrecy secre-cy was maintained throughout all of these preliminary arrangements, even to the extent of deferring the filing and recording of tbe incorporation and other papers, "Messrs. Berglund and Tollestrup are men who have made the business of big irrigation projects a careful study. Two of the projeots which they have put through in Utah have |