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Show I CITY PUMP TO RECLAIM LANDS LYING WEST Of JORDAN RIVER Twenty-live horsepower 12-inch pump installed by the city to reclaim lands lying went of Jordan river. For tlto purpose of overcoming the poronnial inundation of about -100 acres of land l3'ing west of .lordmi river, between be-tween North Temple mid the city limits, lim-its, the city and properly owners have installed a twenty-five horsepower pump, which was srarlcd a woek ago Thursday. Water is raised 7 feet to .Ionian fiver tit the rale of 4.1(10 gallons a miiiuti'. The lands arc valuable for agricultural purposes bnl hointj several feet below the bed of the river, waters have gathered cvrv year bv seepage ' I ami caused the property owners groat I damage. It now covers the land to a i 1 ilontli of u feel. In sixty days the pump i Vwill h.ivo removed nil of the water and it is expected that in the future the pump will adequately counteract, the ! 1 Hoods. |