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Show SEVIER BRIDGE RESERVOIR PLAN Land Commissioners Defer Action. State Engineer Unable as Yet to Determine the Feasibility. Data Has Been Furnished Him Upon Which to Base Final Bo-port. Bo-port. Nothing will be done at the present timo by tho State Board of Land Commissioners Com-missioners In the matter of the Sevier bridge reservoir project- The State Engineer En-gineer was unable to determine the feasibility of the scheme upon the information in-formation furnished him. and it was decided at the meeting of the board yesterday to hold the matter In abeyance abey-ance until moro accurate information has been secured. Sovier Bridge Reservoir. This proposition, known as tho Sc-velr Sc-velr bridge reservoir project, contemplates contem-plates tho storing of the waters of tho Sevier river In Juab county for the irrigation ir-rigation of thousands of acres of land in Millard county. The amount of land that could be reclaimed by this project is estimated at 10,000 acres. It is proposed pro-posed to build a dam in the Sevier river, riv-er, about 10 miles south of the town of Juab, and to convey the stored waters down the river channel into Millard county, thero to be diverted Into a system sys-tem of canals to the land to be reclaimed. re-claimed. The possibility of the wholo scheme depends upon the amount of water that can be obtained, and whether wheth-er the land that the same will Irrlgato would compensate the State for constructing con-structing the reservoir. The estimated cost of tho reservoir Is $130,000. Doremus Hakes Report State Engineer Doremus reported to the land board at its previous meeting that from the information he had been j nble to obtain he could not determine tho feasibility of the project. Under the laws of tho State Land Board can not use any of tho reservoir fund In Investigating these projects. The board may appropriate money from the fund for the construction of reservoirs, but there Is no provision permitting expenditures ex-penditures In making preliminary surveys sur-veys and measurements to determine tho feasibility of a prolcct. The next Legislature will be a9ked to amend tho statutes on this point. Data Not Furnished. yviier tne state iioara iook tne be- voir bridge proposition up, State Engineer En-gineer Doremus requested the people of Millard county. Interested in the project, pro-ject, to furnish him certain Information. It Beems the farmers were unable to furnish the required data In full, and much of the Information furnished was moro or less uncertain and unreliable. For these reaeons the land board does i not feel Justified In making an appropriation appro-priation at this time. Their action in no way mitigates against the proposition, proposi-tion, but the members feel that they would not bo lustlfled In constructing the reservoir until Its feasibility has been better demonstrated. |