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Show Redeeming; Laud. A largo tract of laud between River-dale River-dale and Ogden, which comprises some 2o,000 or 80,000 acres, has for years, in fact always, been useless and worthless by reason of the lack of water wherewith to irrigate it. The. land owners in that neighborhood have recently held a mctling to take iuto consideration the construction of a canal through which tbe traot referred re-ferred to can he watered. The under taking will be a stupendous one, and will draw heavily upon tho resources of those contemplating engaging in tbe work. Tbe line that will doubt-leas doubt-leas be followed in makiug the canal will be from a short distance above tbe mouth of tbe Weber canon, from where it will make a circuit si.d run along the bluff? fur abcut eight1 mi lea to a high point on the table j lauds, southwest aud about a mile from the Riverdale schoolhouse. But the beneficial results of tho enterprise enter-prise will be mauilold: Tho vast iract of exollont agricultural laud now value'es will be brought into the market aud cultivated aad will yield in a very Bhort lime ample rewards to the projectors of the canal and the industrious men who built it. The Herald a few yearn ago predicted that the immense section of country south of tbe district now receivinB attention would be watered by a canal from the Weber river, and it is ol that opinion to day. The "job " will be a gigantic ono whenever begun and will involve tho outlay of a consideia-bie consideia-bie fortune, but as goon as tillable the laudB would be snatched up, .settled upt.n au I cultivated, and what : has for so many years been known as the "Sand Ridgo" will be doited all over with tho farms of thrifty agriculturists, agri-culturists, alive with grazing Block, and green trees will ornament where nothing now grows but the fragrant sage-brush and withered-looking greasewood. A meeting of the Riverdale men and Ogden parties interested in the canal will be held at the city hall in Ogden on next Saturday week, when the surveyor and his aiaistanta will report on the aurvey and probable coat of the work. Success to tbe project. |