Show X BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT Representative Mohr Explains It to the Land Board State Representative Mohr of Grand county appeared before the State Land board yesterday In an endeavor to Interest In-terest the board In an irrigation project pro-ject In which he Is engaged The intention In-tention Is to cut a canal from the Grand river east of Grand Junction through Grand county to Green river and by that means bring under irrigation irriga-tion about 700000 acres of land which is now barren for lack of waujr Mr Mohr desired the board to order a survey but the board qccldcd that It had no power to embark In such an undertaking and advised Mr Mohr to apply to the Legislature for an appropriation appro-priation to help out the project The board received a number of applications ap-plications for extension of time to make payments them on land selected and granted |