Show Water In the South The committee consisting of Mayor Low Hon J W Christian and Engineer Now cw recently appointed by the city council of this city t locate one or more reservoirs for husbanding water for irrigation are actively at work in tho discharge of the business intrusted to them They have already al-ready examined several places supposed to be suitable for such purposes and have made two locations upon which preliminary surveys have been made The committee are busily engaged in preparing a profile of the locations with diagram and estimates of the construction of dams necessary to for the desired reservoir The principal location will be in Beaver River caflon and will be of a capacity sufficient to hold water to irrigate from fifteen hundred to two thousand acres of land From tho overflow of this one the water can be conducted t a suitable location on a lower level where a second receiving lake can be erected that will be of equal capacity with the principal I is thought by the committee that they will have a report re-port sufficiently matured to present t the city counci at their next session on Saturday Sat-urday which report will comprise the pen era information necessary to give a fair representation of tho views of gvo committee com-mittee and a general estimate of the cost of construction of the dam waste wear and issue of the water some minor details de-tails however may hereafter be necessary Beaver Utonian |