Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-05-05 | Page 14 | Little Salt Lake Project is Begun

I I I I LITTLE SALT LAKE PROJECT IS BEGUN Large Tracts Will Till Benefit by Construction of Dam and Canal Work on the project of oC draining Little Lit LIt- the tle Salt lal mIce lake e In Iron count county and carrying carryIng carry carry- Ing Ins the tho water from rom tho the lake to the tho Muddy Spring wash Is un under er way at b bj by bythe the tha Iron Count County Irrigation company preparatory to the thc building of oC an Impounding impounding Im Im- im- im pounding dam In tho the gap ap to conserve conserve tho the water from springs bordering I ngo the lake A canal a milo mile lon long and about tort forty feet In Ir depth at the eastern east cast em ern en end of the gap will m be constructed to conduct the tho water from the tho lace This Information is 18 given ri out b bj by Jud Judge e Joshua Greenwood of the public utilities commission one of the pro pro- lectors engineers said JudS' JudS Ur Ore n n- wood last Jast evenin evening have o estimated that thal sufficient water will wilt be Impounded ed from froni the lake springs winter water ater and spring freshets to irrigate te from to 1000 acres of oC land It is ono one of the biggest est projects o of or Its kind In southern Utah and the springs o of fresh freshwater freshwater freshwater water are numerous enough to the project a success Associated with Judge Gr Green cn t arc ale Wilford Da Day S. S A. A Halterman V W 1 L. L Cook and H II H. L. L Adams of f e. e Iron coun county t