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Show HATCHTOWN DAM TO BE REBUILT SOON Matter Will Ba Taken Up at Land Board Meeting This Morning; Immediate Needs Filled. Tinnicdiate reconstruction of tbe Hatchtown dam, which went out a week affn vesterdav. will he cnnsidprprl by tlie state land board at its regular monthly session this morning. That steps looking to an early rehabilitation of the big project will be taken at this meeting is the opinion of V. J. Lynch, secretary of the board. There will be no crop loss to tbe settlers dependent on the Hatchtown dam for irrigation witter, according to V. D. Caudlaud, president of the land board, who spent yesterday afternoon at . tbe land office preparing for the important meeting today. President Candland "was apprised by telegram from W. D. Beers, state engineer, yesterdav afternoon that the flood waters of Stanford creek were now being turned into the irrigation canals of the Hatchtown project aud that within the next day or two water would be available for all the 6ettlers. Water from the Sevier river also is being used by direct diversion into the canals, which is possible now owing to the high water in the river at this season of the year. After tbe meeting of the land board, which probably will last two or three days, it is likely that the members and the governor ami attorney general will leave for Hatchtown and the .Sevier river valley to personally investigate conditions. |