Show 1 i CAREY ACT Company Y Proposes proposes to Put Acres in Emery County Under Water UNDERTAKING IS FINANCED SAID TO BE ADAPTED TO AND A D FRUIT RAISING MU r corporation were ere filed in tle clerk yesterday c largest irritation Irrl project i ik n in this country except t til il 1 government The cor 1 I Green River Rier Valley i Land Water Vater company with head headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters in Salt Lake City The project is to irrigate and improve under the Carey act acres of land in Emery county The capitalization of ot the company Is Js fixed at divided di divided divided vided Into shares of the par value Blue of 1 I each Of or this stock shares are to remain In the treasury and the balance is fully paid up to meet the requirements of property and water rights Officers of the company are R H Peale president Charles E Fuller vice president pre H P Clark treasurer Lloyd Llod Sigler secretary and these with W V H Nutting B E I R IL WIlletts and J E Noble constitute the directorate Mr Ir Peale Palle recently re removed from San Francisco to Salt I Lake ike City and Is Isnow Isnow now nou making this city his permanent home Hr Mr II Fuller is a Kansas Kamms City capitalist The other directors are Utah men melt menThe menThe The cost of the reservoir the dams canals and other works planned for this project will reagh rea h This will be the cost of ot Irrigating the first acres of the tract The main reservoir is near the headwaters of Cottonwood creek creck in the Lower Joe Toe valley and this reservoir will wll have a I capacity of acre feet The main dam Is to be feet teet high and feet long The main canal will be forty fort miles long It will be feet wide at the bottom and have a water depth of eight feet Preliminary work was started more than a year ago un under under under der the personal supervision of En Engineer Engineer Engineer A A Clark This reservoir is intended to augment the flow of the San Rafael river the principal source of water for the irrigation of the land Selections of land for this project will twill be made next Monday Monda under tHc tJi provisions of the Carey act at The land landis an is fg of the same general character as that at Green River Utah and Pali Pall Palisade Palisade sade Colo It is said to be admirably adapted to fruit growing The tract will be bisected by the branch of the Rio Grande Western estern to be constructed from the present main line to Salina thus affording good shipping facilities In addition to the development and amI improvement of the land it is proposed by the Green River Valley Valle Land Water company to develop electrical energy In considerable quantity to be used for electric railways s pumping plants and other purposes In that part of Utah |