Show is not A dam S L that the irrigators at Bur- h not want a dam of any what did desire their canal far I any Lip Ike Sevier river to get r from below the bed of aDd thus avoid a cheaper to build a dam than to make a Arisen feet and j further up the p They the cheaper Cheap things are usually It is tough on sot to be worth a dam in could not j i canal by a dam site have no damsite to river Dirt banks and noddy are not solid and a in high water isn't pod as a coffer dam on any j By thorough dredging piling you can build a good on any old bind dam is not worth a dam on a rock bottom It was predicted some time ago by the Filmore Progress Review that after some freshet that Burtner would wake up some morning and discover she was not worth a and the following from that spicy little paper The Burtner Burtner is a new town situated on the San Los Angeles Salt Lake about five miles northeasterly from in the center of one of the largest farm districts in the State of Utah with an abundant water derived from the Sevier the largest water storage in the state with a capacity of acre feet of with the dam built upon solid between two solid rock banks with a spill-way over solid through which all the water of the Sevier river can be if The water wanted for irrigation is' run through a solid concrete tunnel into the river from which it is taken out below at and the Hinckley and Abraham section of and for the Burtner we were told by that water would be taken out of the river at a place by making a deep cut through the nver the water could be taken out without a dam in the This sounds good to those who knew the bad habit of dams in the river going out at irrigation causing great losses to and continuous expense of rebuilding The first Burtner prop- was to all that and take no chances with mud dams in the But this plan was and why it was changed we cannot know nor never did We were told that an offer had been made to carry out the first proposition and bring the water onto the Burtner land for But this plan was and after all the expensive and provoking experience with mud dams in the Sevier the management of the Burtner project try another mud dam and it resulted in disappointment and financial and like al its has gone to Swan 3 leaving thousands of of grain and other crops high and and instead of harvest wo get a dam It is a process that but few will be able to and in the language of Darwin only fittest will all as said in his song about tho six |