Show GUNNISON Irrigation and Sugar News of Inter- Inter New Plant est fA Projected Special to The Telegram Gunnison Jan 30 Gunnison will h v. v mot t ext extensive s ve irrigation sy's t t when tem the work ncik now now in progress haS been been com completed le leed ed Already in r labor and cash has been expended expend d. d A tunnel 2411 2 fe feet t long running in a half circle this this' solid rock was wa's finished a afe afew afew few fe months s ago which with the elevation elevation elevation eleva eleva- tion of the dam from twenty three feet to three thirty-three feet In height gives an anin in increased ease f storage for acres There are five main canals for transferring transferring trans trans- ferring erring the water to to- the farming districts dis The company owns one-half one the Prior right of three of the mountain si sl streams reams and all the waste water from the Sanpete watershed which means I Ian an unfailing water source and a positive positive pos pos- I Hive advance in the value of farming land 1 When the reservoir dam was first constructed in 1888 i it was wa entirely destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de by a flood but to obviate any similar occurrence the tunnel alone is capable of carrying off 2000 cubic feet per second About seventy teams and men have been at work for the past two years on the construction The Gunnison City and Antelope Canal canal ca ca- nal nat is under construction though the work has been a abandoned for the past two yo years It will get Its water supply from the Gunnison reservoir and will furnish h the city with a complete sewerage sewerage sewerage sew sew- and water supply Already has been on its development and the work will be resumed as soon as the improvements ts on the Reservoir are completed This canal will also open up the tract of land north of the city The beet in industry is of In Interest Interest Interest In- In terest to the farmer in our locality The soil seems peculiarly adapted to beet cultivation Mr A. A C. C Madsen is in correspondence with some Chicago capitalists who purpose erecting a factor factory factory fac fac- tory tor this coming year ear The Utah Sugar company will if they have not already done so contract with the farmers for forthe forthe forthe the outlay of 1600 acres of beets The diphtheria scare has cleared up through h the investigation of the Board of Health A thorough canvass was made which resulted in finding one severe case of diphtheria which was under quarantine and some mild cases of sore throat Every possible precaution precaution precaution tion has been taken to stop any further spread of the contagion The school building will be Tse disinfected this week and school will doubtless begin Monday The first cold eold blast this year struck the city this week and brought the mercury flown doWn own tp to 6 degrees below zero |