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Show Cost Will Be Nominal. Mr. Pope says that as far as he knows the bill will conflict with no other legislation leg-islation It will put the homeseeker In a position to .irrigate his lnnd nt a nominal nomi-nal cost. Hundreds of land owners aro waiting until the law gives thorn permission permis-sion to form districts and issue bonds, to begin work reclaiming tho wasto places. Jnckmnn Herrick of Theodoro, recently recent-ly wrote a letter to the commercial club of Salt Lake, in which he declared that B. V.. I'd lock, president of tho Ramey-ITdlock Ramey-ITdlock Investment Co.. of Grand Junction, Junc-tion, inspected the Blue bench, a plot of J0.000 acres, and said that it is fini-r land than the celebrated Orchard Mesa. Ho said that Mr- Udlock expressed his willingness to loan the settlers in that section any amount needed for irrigation purposes, two months after the lnw goes Into effect. The Colorado company last year, in December, placed $000,000 worth of bonds under the Colorado law to irrigate ir-rigate the Orchard Mesa, and 12.000 acres wore watered at a cost of ?"fi per acre. Udlock thinks that if the irrigation law is passed the districts Irrigated will have a population of 200,00 in ten years. Believe Bill Will Pass. It is firmly believed that tho law will bo passed and Mr. Pope will exert every ev-ery effort in that direction. Some years ago ho was a member of a company that made on unsuccessful attempt to float bonds for tho joclammation of the OMi-ard OMi-ard Mesa country, but the project failed. The Colorado state statute, however, gave the protection necessary to get the needed need-ed money and the Orchard Mesa Is nt present one of tho most valuable pieces of growing land in the state. It Is estimated that thero aro 250.-000 250.-000 acres of land in tho Uintah basin to be reclaimed. If tho bill should become a law and tho territory is 'Irrigated, rapid advancement would bo made in the development de-velopment of the reservation. No ono thing would hasten tho coming of tho Mount rood moro than would the reclamation reclam-ation of the arid land of this section. |