| Show ONTRAGT IS SINE I t Between the State and the Bonne j vie Water Company I II I t TO RECLAIM THE DESERT AND PUT UND R CULTIVATION AD rIV 5 S1G000 ACHES OF LAND j PesidcatHlrcli Gone to Philtulel phi to Slake Arrangements For Conmielcingthe Great Irrigation Works Which Will Cost 3000 000 and the Collateral Enterprises I Will Augment the Total By 2000000 jffidre I t At last the contract between the i state of Utah and the Lake Bonnevillq Water and Powei company whdrcby II the latter will be enabled to cdmmencc the great enterprise of reclaiming 216 i 000 acres of desert land In Millaid I county has boon executed and now Pr f lent Morton J3 Hirsch is speeding I speed-ing on his way to Philadelphia to arrange ar-range for the development of the mammoth mam-moth irrigation works The Signing sealing witnessing and acknowledge ing in duplicate of the document asJ finally agreed upon in detailed terms was completed at 6 oclock last evening I even-ing in the office of the state land board Governor Wells as president and Wesley Wes-ley K WaltOn secretary of the board I penned their signatures in pursuance of a resolution for and on behalf of the state and Mr Hirsch president and Judge John A Street secretary of the Lake Bonneville company performed the act that binda the company t9 the contract MATTEJt OF BONDS Although the Lake Bonneville com j I I pany has 60 da Ss in which to file its I guarantee and indemnity bond to the state in the sum of 50000 the assur1 ance is given by General Manager Cavanaugh that the bond Will be tendered ten-dered at a much earlier date President Presi-dent Hirsch will return from the east before the end of the year with an arrangement I ar-rangement completed hereby local I freeholders will become sureties on the bond Already the companys bonds have been floated and what few preliminaries pre-liminaries remain to be considered will be promptly attended to and immediately immedi-ately after the required obligation document doc-ument is filed with the state board active work upon the irrigation projects pro-jects will be started MAGNITUDE OF THE WORK I i in contemplation to construct 720 mile of main canals and branch ditch os Three mammoth reservoirs in Sevier river canyon above Leamington will be built and the water stored therein during the winter and spring I months will be Qnducted upon the land now barren but which will eventually I be covered with productive farms and I fruitful orchards A necessary pait of the work will require I re-quire the rebuilding of several miles of the Oregon Short Line railroad which now runs through Sevier canyon along an entirely new route so that the storage stor-age of water may not be interfered with A PART OF THE PROCEEDINGS The land boards committees appointed appoint-ed to check up the specifications for the extensions of th0 irrigation system and to verify theli of lands submitted reported after atwo days session that everything was correct as expressed in the draft of the contract which was recently re-cently published in The Herald I Then Judge Street the companys counsel thanked the board for the i courtesy shown in dealing with the company In response Governor Wells I said the board regarded the Lake Bon neville enterprise as the largest affair I o the kind ever initiated in this state j and one whiclvwould ultimately yield the greatest benefit to the people of I Utah On behalf of the board the governor expressed the hope that the I undertaking would be carried to triumphant i umphant completion and realize all that its friends and promoters anticipated I WILL FURNISH ELECTRIC POWER This enterprise has long been a necessity nec-essity in the development of southern Utah and will result a hen completed as projected in revolutionizing the physical phy-sical financial social and political condition con-dition of the state It will add greatly to the taxable I wealth of the state will establish communities com-munities of industrious citizens and will increase the annual products of the state stateI will enlarge the development and magnitude and producing capacity of I the Tintic mining districts and those I other districts located around that valley val-ley rim The company will develop and deliver electric power to all the camps I adjacent to its plant near Leamington The estimated cost of the completed I project is 3000000 and the collateral j enterprises which will be undertaken I i I and carried out by the company to furnish fur-nish markets for the products of the lands under its system will cost 2000 I 000 more This is the largest exclusive storage irrigation system in the world |
