Show WATERS of THE JORDAN ARE TO FLOW ON THE MOUNTAIN TOPS waters used for for duck ponds to be utilized utilised for irrigating the bost valuable lands in utah I 1 if the now on foot materializes teria lizes there will lie be another transformation 1 scene enacted like there was wh when n the sand ridge changed from fromia a desert to the finest garden s spot ot in utah by the building of tile th davis eDavis and weber counties canal and the canyon creek reser voi in morgan county but this cha ge now contemplated is in the auth end of davis county where lie soil is equal by productive all and I 1 still I 1 more valuable with the thel water than sand ridge ground son n account of its close proximity to salt lake city and its beautiful I 1 sloping location so suitable for residence evidence esi dence purposes for people who whoA vork in salt lake frequent car t ervice and cement road coneck it lith the city even with the limi limit led d water supply there now i is s 11 good lucern dry farming grain and lid fruit is raised raised but with an sundance abundance of late water this locality would be converted into a rall paradise some of the val verda country comes in this group of I 1 land and the soil is so ric rich h t thare re t that at w wonders onders have lave been p performed erf med with the water they h have ave with a little increase in wa water t er there filere would be no prettier spot to ilive in than val V erda it would become the pasadena of utah the plan is tj t get the waters 1 the jordan riler in some way either cither by filing an on the same if it should prove that the people who laim claim it are not A entitled to tile the same or purchase same or get it in n some way arget other water that hat could be turned into tile the rh ariy riy er cr then dig a cast from tile the river to a point near the railroad tracks where a pump would be installed to lift the he water to tile the J several levels tD ditches itches would be dug leading oft off to the northwest thereby irrigating a very great area of grounds the highest level would bring all the e water to a point near the bountiful second ward meeting hoose the ditche cading ea ding east cast from the jordan I 1 rive rive river would only have to be seven fee ta t the spot where it is proposed t I 1 install the pumping plant due t to 0 the ground being so level this rh is trench is to be dug on oil the line dividing i viding salt lake city and daft 5 county the water is to be 31 t aped straight up on the mou t st of this point which i is quite s sheep beep at the arese prese present time hydraulic engineers eftim estimate te second feet of water is passing the point where the proposed ro sed diversion of the water fro from the jordan river is to take pla place e 0 0 at a meeting previously held a committee ivas yas appointed consisting of harry harly josephs J fred odell fred I 1 cleverly W J thayne to investigate the feasibility of this project J t and report at a meeting tp to be held in south bountiful next sunday at p in this committee has made quite extensive investigations they visited the pumping plants on utah lake and ad have had measurements ure ments made of the waters of the jordan surveys and levels c conferred red with the utah power light co in ile regards gards to buying power to operate the pumps and necessary machinery and yesterday were at ae law office of bagley ashton and stable in the clipper building having the necessary legal papers drawn up for the purpose of forming an irrigation district under laws enacted by the recent legislature to be known as th the bonneville irrigation district this petition will be presented to the board lof county commissioners of davis county next monday the commit tice stee is in hopes ho that the county commissioners will without delay ask the state ing engineer ineer to allot the water which it t is proposed to be pumped from the jordan river the survey shows the maximum lift will be feet and that acres of lan land can be irrigated by this project T aw even without r any delays in ill the preliminary va ark rk it will require until tile the first firsov f next may to install the plant dig c canals nals ditches etc J twenty fi fay cents per acre will lie assessed jo 0 o pay for having abe th these ese investigations made an and p preliminary re 1 military avo work rk and the cost of installing till plant will be paid by i issuing suin g 1 cd S I 1 it t is esti estimated n at ed that the total cot cost should ot exceed 60 per acre |