Show WORK HAS COMMENCED Telluride Company Will Push to Completion Immense lITi lITigation Irrigation gation Project Montpelier r Ida May Telluride Power company nas at last Jast really begun work on Its Irrigation BOO and power plant project in iii this valley alle It is hiring biring all the men and aDd teams It cn can get and dirt 8 already begun un to fly The first work will be to drive a tunnel through a big mountain near Soda Springs where the water Is to be taken take frost fron Ber Beir river to the power house through an immense immen e pipe md and the tunnel to a point on the west westside westside side of the mountain More Ulan than OO feet fall is thus secured and the distance e the water has to flow Is greatly shOrtened The river at this point forms a long U r rand and by cutting across through tb moun mountain tain tam a 8 great distance is saved The next work will iii be h sh the digging ilcIn of gf an u 1 u 1 canal from Bear near city to Bear lake wherein the flood waters of the rIver are to be stored for summer 1 ise se After passing through the power powerhouse powerhouse house the water will wUl be taken on down oto nto Utah for irrigation purposes s TM The beginning of this work marks the start ID lag of an expenditure of more than 1 OO for labor alone all of which will willbe be spent largely in this valley THe quarterly conference ot of Bear Lake stake which is to be heM held the d and of Tune June at Paris this county count will be the most important meet meetIng Ing that has bas taken pIece in this stake of I Zion for over thirty years or since the I time when President Budge was named as president At the coming meeting his successor is to be chosen President Budge being assigned to take charge of the tempie at Logan Several names have been mentioned as his possible sue suc successor cessor among them beIng First Council Councillor lor br William L Rich BIshops Clark Cark and Richards and Elders Ed and Joe Sheperd Whether ether any of these Will be chosen remains to be seen Generally however it Is believed that a man from Salt Lake will be named for the position thus doing away with any possible bitter bitterness bitterness ness that ml might ht result from selecting a local man Budge has bas served for Cor over a quarter of a century being ne of the oldest stake presIdents in the church |