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Show WEMDOllraiulS Hows of if West Polishfld Up. Boiled Down, bo That He Who Euns ' May Read, AUT 0IS30RS, AUT KULLUS. Items of Interest and Bits of Current Comment From the Li3t of Our Exchanges. Secretary Clinton of the Utah Wool Growers association estimates that the wool clip of this territory this spring will be U.OOO.OOO pounds, or about 1,000,-(H)0 1,000,-(H)0 pounds in excess of last year. The annual meetitig of the Utah Wool Growers company will be hold at the company's ollioe in Nephi, April 4 1 ii, to hear the financial report read, and to elect directors for the ensuing year. The K. G. W. railway will be extended extend-ed as far as Gunnison, in Sanpete county by the middle of May. From thence up the Sevier valley the grades nre very tight, rendering construction comparatively easy and rapid until the upper end of the valley is reached, when heavy grades and considutable ro?k work is encountered. Provo Dispatch: The report of Hep ty Watermastcr Walter Scott, of the West Irrigation district of Provo City, for the year ending December 81, lS'.H), contains considerable interesting material. ma-terial. He says: The water supply for the district during the year has been Millicient to mature the crops, except that part irrigated from the Tanner rnce, and this insufficiency was caused by parties floating tics in the river Bt ttie head of the race, and by parties interfering in-terfering with the dam and gates, and taking the water out on the land west of the race over which the city has no control. There are in the district dis-trict twenty-one irrigating ditches, which require auout twenty-one average irrigating streams, fourteen of which are obtained from Provo river, five through the Tanner race, seven through tho city race, (ind two . through tho factory race. The other seven irrigating ditches are supplied fmm seventy-one artesian wells wl.ich have been sunk by private parties, at a probable totai cost of $oi)00. These wells are mostly located in the south half of the district, and from one to nine of them flow into every ditch. They supply one-third of the water used for irrigation and furnish fur-nish most of the water during winter season for domestic purposes. |