Show VALUABLE LANDS Will BE INVADED Railroad Will Pass Through New Reclamation Pro Project Project Project Near St George Special to The Richfield Nov 25 R D Young and John Ross floss two of the Western Con Cob Construction COnstruction officers have just returned from Kanab where they looked over the proposed irrigation dam darn with a view to submitting a bid for tor or the work The dam will be seventy feet high and feet long the slope of the retaining wall being three to toone toone one on the front and two to one on the back In addition there will be a spillway eighty feet wide and a tun fun tunnel tunnel funnel nel will be driven through a bed of sandstone for a distance feet While on the trip the men met a party arty of ten men who are out locating the he route of the proposed railroad from Lund on the San Pedro to the Grand Canyon These men are highly elated over tho richness of the country into which the railroad will extend The route will come corne from ot t George to Kanab and then to the Grand Canyon Canon tapping Dipping huge coal fields and extensive timber belts of the Buckskin moun mountains tame One of the party Mr Burke who Is associated with White Sons big t lg railroad builders of New York told old Mr Young that the proposed route would touch the big bib reclamation pro project project project near St George which J M ill 1 Lau Lauritzen Lauritzen ritzen and associates of this city are about to begin and he lie characterized it as one of the best irrigation and land schemes in America In the party was Government Tim Timber Timber ber Agent Seery who said that from one point on the Buckskin range he can show a timber area of feet without moving and that feet of lumber can be cut in the moun mountains mountains which the railroad will tap and enough ties can be cut to build a trans transcontinental transcontinental continental railroad As Richfield men are largely interested in this great rec reclamation reclamation reclamation scheme this is good news to them |