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Show WILL RECLAIM MUCH LAND IN GRAND COUNTY With the Idea of reclaiming 22.000 acres of arid land, located about ten miles southeast of Thompson's on the lino of tho Denver & Rio Grande railway In Grand county, the Emery County Land and Water company of Rochester, Imery county, hn3 filed application with the state engineer for 1000 acre-feet of water. Tho wator for which application Is made will be diverted from Muddy crock or Dirty Devil creek, and will be carried to the land of tho company by means of a flume about threo miles long. A reservoir reser-voir to impound the flood water will bo constructed, covering an area of thirty-four thirty-four acres. F. B. Hammond, Jr., of Moan. Grand county, also made application with the state engineer for ono-hundredth of a cubic foot of the flow of Yellow Cat spring, in Grand county, for tho watering of stock, on the range. |