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Show j The Canal Movement. Regarding the canal combination, organized with a view to getting w iter on to the dry landB in Weber and Davis Countie?, the Ogden Dispatch, of Tuesday evening contains the following fol-lowing interesting item: At tbe meeting held in tho City Hall at 11 a.m. to day, it was atated that on June 2J the trustees of the Central Canal and Irrigating Ditch Company (Weber CounLy) and the trustees of the irrigation district north of Davis County, had made an agreement, agree-ment, then read, to unite their forces and make one canal 20 feet on bottom bot-tom and 3 feet wide in place of two smaller ditcbea. That this canal would irrigate 35,000 acres, 25.000 ol which is in Davis County. That the estimated cost would not exceed $3 an acre on the main canal. That tbe canal would cress Sec. 13, townBhip, 5, N. R., 2 W., about 20 rods e&ht of the south line of S. E. i ol 8. E i, touch tbe N. W. cor. of S. i of S. E. J- and then turn souih near the S. E. cor of Sec. 14 The agreement of the consolidation was unanimously affirmed. The trustees stated that each party who lock a contract would be bound to fulfil it "on time," and that each company would be bound to complete the work by May lt, 1SS0. The estimate esti-mate of expense to bring the water to the mouth of tho Weber Canon is 6,000, most of which will require cash as ngairibt physical force. Messrs. Layton, Hooper, Jennings and Little alone represent 4,000 acres in Davis Couuty, and they are men of means, aod with thode iu Weber County who will pay cash, it appears certain that tbe company will bring the water out for the season of 1880. 1 |