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Show The Delta Irrigation and Land Company A New Company with Ample Capital Takes the Oasis Project and will Complete it Water is Sure .This Season of Salt Lake. We have known Mr. Snow Tor years and believe the farmers will find him a fair and reasonable man to get along with. U'e think he is disposed to deal gener ,u! with the settlers who have lost everything and find It hard to get on t etr feet again for a new start, but of terse the com PVJ will have to spend large sums at once In Improvements of the Irrigation system and cannot do as much as they would like to. This new dial will mean much for Uurtner. With the assurance of a satisfactory distribution system for the water, a low and safe diversion dam, which can never go out, n spillway not connected at all with the dam, and an enlarged nnd strengthened main canal the owners of most of the 17,000 acres of land already sold will begin farming operations as soon as possible, while the .13,000 acres remaining unsold will be put on the market and disposed of as rapidly as the irrigation system is extended. The winter has been a splendid one for the farmers and If the present fine weather continues the work of plowing and painting can begin be-gin In a few weeks. We expect to see some bumper crops raised on the west side next summer, and the people of Uurtner who have held on with faith In the future, but mighty hard scratch Ing for the past two years, will receive their reward. We know we've got the finest soil In Utah, can raise the best ot ,weythlug, an unexcelled domestic water supply, plenty of water for irrigation irri-gation and a near and profitable market for everything we raise. We II show them next fall, won't we? The affairs of the old Oasis Irrigation Irriga-tion have finally been closed up and a new organization Incorporated as the The bonds and stocks of the old company com-pany have been taken over by the Delta Company, and the obligations of the old company have been adjusted. ad-justed. The matter has been under consideration by the land board, the representatives of the old and new companies and the attorneys for the farmers for a long time nnd It will be a great relief to the people of Burtner and the farmers to know that the matter mat-ter has at last been settled, and there is assurance that water will be provided pro-vided for this season's crops. The company already has men at work putting In a concrete spillway ninety-six feet wide at the diversion dam and It will be pushed to completion comple-tion as soon as possible. Tho work of strengthening and widening the canal from the site of the old dam to the new will be commenced as soon as tne weather permits. The canals on the west side tract will also be put In condition to carry water to every forty acres and bridges built wherever necessary. It Is also the Intention of the company com-pany t put In two steel flumes across the river to take the place of tho old wooden flume which Is believed to be of Insufficient capacity to carry enough wnict' for the tract. One of them will be Installed as soon as possible along side the woo do a flume. Then wooden flume will be taken down and the second steel one will take its place. The main cause of delay has been in arriving at a satisfactory settlement of the damages claimed by the farmers farm-ers for the loss of their crops the past two years owing to the old dam going out and a guarantee that all the promises prom-ises of the new company would be carried car-ried out. The basis of this settlement Is that every farmer who actually planted a crop and lost It shall receive $6.03 per acre. H. J. Fitzgerald and Jas. A. Melville have been selected ns arbitrators arbi-trators to determine the number of acres so planted. This amount of damages dam-ages Is to be credited on the next payment pay-ment due on the land. In addition the time for making all the next payments Is to be extended one year and one year's Interest Is waived. While there Is dissatisfaction among some of the farmers over this settlement, settle-ment, we think It Is the best that could be made. New capital could not have been got Into the enterprise on any other terms. It was either that or a continuation of the damage suit against the old Oasis Co. If a Judgement had been secured what would It have been worth against a bankrupt company? The land board might have been sued but that would have meant a long and expensive suit with the outcome uncertain. .Mclnnlch and Norton, the attorneys for the farmers, have been rrltlzed by some for entering the damage suit In the first place. Some people seem to think that a satisfactory deal might have been made with the old company out of court, but this Is absurd. It was bankrupt and had over a million of bonds and stocks outstanding besides other Indebtedness. What they would have done would be to dispose of their contracts with the farmers on the best cash terms they could make and then get from under. The suit stood In the way of all such kind of deals. This damage suit bad to be considered by any Individual or company which proposed pro-posed to take over the project. It was that which secured a guarantee that all proposed Improvements would be carried out and the farmers furnished with water this season. That delay should occur was Inevitable. That the prosecution of the suit should be held rff as long as there was any possibility nf a compromise was the part of wisdom wis-dom and the final result we think vindicates vin-dicates Mclnnlch Norton in their course. The president of the new company Is W. I. Moody of Chicago, who we understand furnishes most of the fl ! nsnrlal barking. The vice president i ind general manager Is Geo. A. Snow |