Show = srr = STATE WILL HELP Land Board Takes Hold of the Buckhorn Flats Irrigation Schema The Biickhorn flats reservoir proposition proposi-tion ivlll bo investigated by the State At the adjourned mauling of the Board of Land CommIssioners it was decided that ho t facts presented In connection with the JSmory county proposition warranted the inaking of preliminary surveys lo de termine the feasibility of the scheme The State Engineer was directed to go ahead with the work and as much of tho 1500 left of the appropriation made the last Legislature as might be needed was placed a thIs disposal 1 The scheme which proposes the reclamation of about 100CO acres of good soil on the Buckhorn Hats by the construction con-struction of two reservoirs on Hunting ton creek was favored by every member of the board ITuntington creek is said to be a stream of ample flow to piovide wa ter for lie Irrigation of the Hats and It Is believed that the data which tho Scale Engineer vlll obtain in his Investigations will prove tlif project feasible The lluekhorn Vats ire situation about lift ecu miles from the town of Hunting ton The Huntington t people arc anxious to have the practicability 01 the scheme determined and have boon working for some time trying to Interest the State Board of Land CommSsHlonerb in the matter mat-ter Owing to the accessibility of the country it Is not thought that I the cost of the pre liminary surveys will exhaust the SiC left in the appropriation The original appropriation was 3000 and J1COO of that amount was ordered expended on the Strawberry valley reservoir scheme The expenditure of the entire appropriation has now been pro Idcd for and promoters of other projects will be unable to secure State aid |