Show A RESERVOIR IN SUMMIT It Will Be Located Near Pcoa and Will Hold Much Water Coalvlllc Sept 25 Water Commissioners Commission-ers T L Allen of Summit and J T Thompson of Weber county and Sur oyor K H Rlicad returned home Tuesday Tues-day night from Weber canyon whoro hoy have been foe two weeks surveying lies for reservoirs One site was located lo-cated In tho mouth of the canyon above Dnhlcy and one Just south of Peon The utter one seems to be tbo moot faor able In fact It In a natural location for a reservoir In which can bo atored water enough to Irrigate thousands of acres of und The dam that will be erected wlfl wil ivcrnge about sixty feet high and will jo threefifths of a mile IOIIR On the west end of the dam Is a ledge of grnn Ile rock and It Is proponed to drive a tunnel through this lodue for an outlet s that the dam will not be touched In any way for an outlet This Is considered consid-ered nn excellent thing and will greatly strengthen the dam There la I plenty of rock nnd dIrt handy to build the dnm with and near tho location Is a ledge Icdro of Jm rock which cnn be burned und lined for lime Plus reservoir when completed wIll cover about four square miles A great deal of the land la now being cultivated and comprises nome good ranches which vlll be purchased by the promoters of the enterprise Some or lrOmOler own the land did not leo the Idea of selling out nt first but they are now willing to lo no In order that the people down tho river may be bcnclltocl It Is estimated that the cost of this reservoir will be about JaMOOO and tho people In the lower end of the valley o olcy ire perfectly l willing to put up that amount or more If necessary lo do the work but thio four counties Weber Davis Da-vis Morgan anti Summit will pay tim amount to be divided according to the mrrbcr of acres of land that Is 1 Irrigated In each county To moot the expenses of the survey and locating an assess nont of 1 cent per acre on all Irrigated and made In the above counties luU been mall SIt S-It I Is expected that work In a definite form will bc commenced In ahort time 10 that no time will bo lost In getting the Inrjsc dam erected rclhl A convention o delegates from tho four counties L wil be held In Morgan on Oc obcr10li to henrthc report of the com mJUoo aypWnted tg locate the reservoirs alBO Uo perfect a permanent organization organiza-tion und to Incorporate 1 r |