Show Will ASK FOB AID Otter Creek Hcservoir Company Wants State Assistance Special Correspondence Richfield Jan 15 During the quarterly session of the Young Mens conference in Richfield on Dec 24 and 25 the subject of securing assistance for the Otter Creek reservoir was brought up I was recognized as an enterprise of such magnitude and importance im-portance t the future growth and development of Sector valley and portions por-tions of Piute and Garfield counties that a committee of three consisting of VT H Clark W G Baker and Simon Christensen was appointed and approved by the conference to take such action a they deemed best and proper to secure assistance This committee decided to send peti thins throughout Sevier Piute and Garfield Gar-field counties to be signed by bona tide settlers memorializing the legislature legisla-ture to render aid in behalf of this reservoir company Representatives will be sent to the legislature to give the petition personal attention and to demonstrate to legislators if possible how worthy this enterprise is of assistance sistance The Otter Creek reservoir when completed com-pleted as is expected within the next two years will have a dam forty feet 1 deep back up water for a distance of seven to nine miles and cover a area of 3000 acres Up to date 2861948 has been expended upon this enterprise 21000 of which has been for the purchase pur-chase of the cite The reservoir is situated in a little valley in the northern I north-ern end of Piute county and had been occupied a farms by a number of settlers I was to buy these out that such a expenditure was necessary for the site The balance of the expenditures expendi-tures has been for machinery material labor etc The dam is finished now to such a extent that the reservoir will be avail able for use this coming summer When finished I will furnish water for nearly all the land that it is possible to cultivate vate down a far as SaUna R C Gemmell of Salt Lake is the engineer t and R D Young superintendent of the works A meeting of the directors of the company was held Friday and the action of the Young Mens conference was endorsed and R D Young and J A Ross were added to the committee The annual meeting of the stockholders stockhold-ers was held yesterday and after listening to the financial report pf the secretary the following officers were electe for the ensuing year President Presi-dent R D Young secretary William Ogden treasurer W G Baker directors di-rectors J A Ross A W Bowman Peter Christensen L W Jones Simon Christensen C Myers J H Wells J A Moore The company is incorporated with 50000 capital stock and it 4 estimated all of this will be consumed before the reservoir is completed The committee which will go before the legislature will ask for reimbursement for the purchase of the site at least and such other aid a the legislature is willing to extend The stockholders are all residents of this valley and have the interests of the people at heart |