Show THE POOR MENS irrigating CANAL i the com commendable enterprise in carbon county is now nearing completion correspondence TrI tribune bunel tho avela go 6 april all price ru niah from tho the aaa over traveler art western rallia railway Y 1 mil ill if tin rio tile the price river si L ariosa away dark line 0 of carth earthwork work stretching lone and ring be bei foo foothills films fil loila ms tile the of so south mile or them IL a beit ll 11 trice price tile the amy havy cuts cult rockwork and at first that it Is 13 nila fills intake it appear but to tile ilia le fine or ard branch fic h of 0 railroad eye of 0 tile ali rancher practiced t an irrig biting caal which A lit ch ji really Is tills this Is 1 the iho mall calls canal find and li irrigation call company vt of tho the llella canal this year completion and its of hun bull biblo tho the cultivation makes po land sult eblo fertile read of 0 aci aciga s of for raising almost but products climaco and available of 0 a 11 tropical bho lias has more nun man to tho the pool pom krit than money and la Is aliling to start ill III the alie bottom of if the ladder by bilking td ila ilao of uncle yanis sams liberal home mead law iain and by mer elsing PAti patience once perseverance and a lot of 0 rood good hard honest muscle auld some COIL coax from tile tho rich boll ot of utalia sunny gunny acres a homo home that in later years ho he an a rest in aud and ills pro progeny gellY cju cau perpetuate petus ate and profit by work wake waa begun on tills enterprise had little to who in n by poor inen start sart alth in coins of 0 the hie re realm alm but of 0 faith I 1 la itale find and in their cri cn ull alch today is about com fer anda and a monument mai numen t to tile iho untiring energy luck k filial and claig dolled ged per erat nce ol 01 at ill the projector projects ot of tile the un oil mr W J ifill hill who sur bcd thu the boule route oi of tile cartel canul twelve rodra ct c t aco a and d tile hie diw nien men vi N lie ho joined with little 11 in the enterprise are today d fill all over the west air it hill but has had lived to see I 1 Is ia now an all old al nion nut even though ills scheme e arald ebo burden waa do flain I 1 ly shifted to nicch better belter able financially to be bear it BUC iss fully mr L M olson bustness nia nager in the emery imd and a large larg a f 1 guilty county mercantile jer e tile company t takes akes pardonable pride prid e in the fie enterprise fur it liaa has been his falth slid and his ren ready afy purse that has opt kept the work going coins year alter year until it I 1 in known to most people hane its im the olson ditch year ago ahen lien it was firest incorporated it was balb d tho the canal vorn company pany but lately it has iscon been re incorporated as the canal and irrigation company the officer 4 are arc JA L at pres president cand and director W r P braffet Ur altet vice md and director paul hunten treasurer and director jessie jesen je sen water la Is from the price river about three miles lulled west or of price where a dim dam lias has been built to turn tile tho water into inlo a large tile the dain la Is about feet eft long built lit lam m aal to stand the floods so 80 common lie in this country in the rainy season there la Is one fourth of SL it milu mile of oc heavy bluming along tho the canal t to 0 earr furry that th water r over arroyos and around dangerous points of oc ick and bridges hive been constructed to carry tins heavy heavy iwa fills have been made in ill tome scallie places fifty feet high there Is ii about half a mile of 0 heavy rockwork rocki ork where a Na waterway valen vay lias has been beef bla blasted stet froidl tins tile cliffs around chich tile water niu it ill b carried only one 11 wat injured on oil the work during I 1 hie lie of 0 alio lie canal alil was A J mho ilio was at the time employed on the ahr rockwork about seventy live rapt almost might up stame aboc tile tha liver on a cliff lie he ki lipped and tum ald to the river and was injured so badly that lie he A v aa carried to LL house N v lacre lio wua WILS confined for a period or oc about six weeks most moat 0 of tho the time jai in bod add tharo alii ro tire aro places alons along the lie canal macre tho ground has sunk fully a foot onee water A was as turned in hodnit hol niT tho the soil to lio be inow lind and good depth about has been so far expended in the construction and about moro will bo be expended tills season to complete it A graat ati it de deal al of iran land 1 has been en cn from cinica to time under tho the canal but thoda nilo entered got discouraged cou raged und and never up on it with tho the result that hot nearly call all tho the entries leave been reported ported rf for cancellation by a special agent of the me land alilce w iio ho w as recently lie here C tile the whole community I 1 have haare reason to bo be congratulated upon the completion of tills enterprise N which aich will be of 0 such vast benefit to the country as it will qt t VE L de a A ro casy C cpr OCR 1 chart of the poor mens ditch bring many people here to build homes anion gug vf ind and bring into cultivation a so e much land that so tar far has been of a use elbe to any ally one alv cut allow tho th to lo cati m and gc direction taken by the canal the nice water company owns a canal on OIL the opposite side of tho the tills till canal has been jai in use for years r and all waters a urea large scope of 0 country und and front from it the town ot of price hua has Us its supply of water for all purposes pur posca and fine tan ciles mark its course ROBERT NE |