Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-14 | Page 14 | River to Water 30,000 Acres

RIVER TO WATER ACRES Capitalists Ready to Launch i S Big Project on Hunt- Hunt ington Los Los An Angeles elc and Salt Lake capitalists capitalists capital capital- whose whoso names wilt will i not be divulged b by tho the chief engineer of ot the syndicate are preparing to develop the irrigation possibilities of ot Emery Emer county count to such auch i n extent that the waters of the Huntington Hunt- Hunt ington river rhel are to bo be turned to the Irrigation of acres of land In that section of the state at a n. cost of or W W. S S. S Daley chief engineer ot of a syndicate which J is represented by bv- M. M M counsel In tho the first trial of Harry K Thaw was at the Hotel Hicl Utah yesterday on his way to California after going over o er the lands Janda which are arc to be included in tho the tract which the tho syndicate has under consideration Ho He said that the whole proposition revolves around the building build build- ing of or el eighteen miles mies of ot branch buld- buld railroad railroad rail rail- road by the Denver Rio Grande to rai- rai tap tan the tho territory selected elected He Ho says MYS that the company which he represents has 5 selected a tract of lan land In Emery county which is adapted to the growing Browing of o 01 sugar beets beeta or of at fruit and that tho the building of the irrigation Project on which water filings 8 have havo I already been made depends upon transportation transportation trans trans- I facilities Mr Ir Delmas was wan here In connection with wih the tue development develop ment of ot the project more than than six months ago and at that time said aid the tho d development velo of the tract Including the building of ot a sugar factory was vas dependent upon the building oVa ofa branch line lne which would reach both Castle Castlo Dale Dalo and Huntington Mr Ir Daley declined to give hl e out the then names n mes of the tho local capitalists Interested Inter inter- ested eted but admitted that he was In consultation with financiers who are connected with both tho the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company and tho the Amalgamated I Fugar gar company and who vho are Interested In other propositions throughout the intermountain countr country t Mr Mn Daisy Daley declared that the Irrigation tion project would be bo built buit within the next next two years ears as ho knew mew the tho money I. I had been advanced and that all of or this the a C J local aid necessary had been secured I v S I