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Show PROJECT UNDER WAY. Plan Would Place 4000 Acres of Land Under Cultivation. PROVO, Sep 9. : Another irrigation project is well under way fn Ctah county coun-ty which will place upwards of 4000 acres of the richest laud in the south end of the county under cultivation. J. Dlm-more Dlm-more is at the head of the project, which is to be incorporated as ihe Sandy point Irrigation company. The plan is to pump water from L'tah lake sufficient to re-Maim re-Maim a iarse tract of land neai Ike Shore and Palmyra. The new wagon road, which has been greatly improved in the last year, will make this section accessible to the markets mar-kets of Prove and Sail Iake, It is proposed pro-posed to furnish water to the land owners at 132.54 Per acre-foot through the Spanish Span-ish Fork West Field Irrigation canal and also through the Lake Shore canal. The' work on the plant is to begin a; once, and the farmers will be given ten years to pay for the water. The water right, fifty second feet, was filed on many years ago by T. R. Kelley of BprlngVille and EL B. Cole of Salt Ijike and will he transferred by them to the new company. |