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Show A BIG RESERVOIR. I'rojecteil .Tint North of Fayette and Dover by a California Company. The Saliue Prett has the following: "A California company is surveying the country about Fayette and Dover, north of Gunnison, with a view to making an immense reservoir. The laud is very level In that vicinity and shows every Indication of having been a lake bottom before the Sevier river had worn a deep chanuel through the ridge to northwest. A dam across the river where it cuts through this ridge could he made at comparatively small expense, it is claimed that it would back the water up as far as the mouth of the San Pitch river. A reservoir of this size would hold water enough to Irrigate Irri-gate a great deal of land in the western desert. It will he somewhat expensive to buy out Fayette and Dover, but the company is said to have half a million to draw on." |