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Show Drainage District Bonds Are Voted at Election New Organization Creates a $115,000 Fund for Completion of Mammoth Valley Project. The most important, if not the most exciting election ever held in Gunnison Valley, was that staged last Saturday when the land owners .vithin the boundaries of the Sanpete Oounty Drainage District No. 1 voted o issue bonds to the amount of $115,000 for the purpose of carrying carry-ing out the proposed work. The elec- ion was a decided victory the result being 37 votes for the issuance of the bonds, with six against. The election was held at the Cenl.erfield meeting house and much interest was manifest, mani-fest, and through the authorization of the bonds, the valley makes another anoth-er step towards progress. The creation of a drainage district comprising the lower fields of Axtell CeiUerfield and Gunnison, was completed com-pleted last May. The work of surveying sur-veying and getting reports on the lands within the district has been go ing on persistently since that lime The recent election was the big fac for in finding out the exact sentiment of the land owners within the district dis-trict and there has never been c :!oubt as to the ultimate outcome But with the large majority as was registered Saturday, every confi- lence is now placed in the ultimate outcome of the gigantic undertaking The tile drainage suytem proposed will immediately take care of 3. Ron acres within the boundaries of the district, but a greater amount of land than this will be benefited. Government Govern-ment surveys show that in every irrigated irri-gated district the lower lands gel logged and remain in that condition until a tile drainage system is install-3d; install-3d; then the lands are soon put intc first class condition. The benefit is not, alone, however, to the land" within the district, but to the whole valley. There is no way of placing j the cost of constructing such a drain-: drain-: age system upon all lands benefited, ! so a small portion of the land must ! bear the entire cost. The bonds to be issued by Sanpete County Drainage District No. 1 will be sold in a very short time and the actual work ot construction will be-in be-in immediately. The supervisors are making arrangements' for the manufacturing of (ile in our own valley. val-ley. Plenty of material can easily be obtained and a manufacturing plant will be built upon a site already chosen. Several largo construction companies com-panies are ready to begin work and before the summer is over most of the work will have been completed. With three trenching machines and '.ile ready at a home plant the work can progress even more rapidly than could be expected. The successful run of the sugar factory and the high cost of water in this valley make the problem of keep-ng keep-ng land in class A-l condition very 'lecessary. There is absolutely no other way of bringing the best lands .ve have into their former productiveness productive-ness unless a system of drainage is instituted. The owners of land in 'his district have long felt this ami have at last brought themselves into action on this vital question. A whole hearted support has been shown all through the preliminary work and when the crops of "ye olden days" -ire once more harvested a greater clamor than ever will be made to se-' cure some of the land within the drainage district. The men who voted in favor of such a move are to be congratulated because in no other way could they do so much for Gunnison Valley and place her before the people of the state. |