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Show liGITl PROJECT PUNNED FOR LYMAN Thirty Thousand Acres to Be Redeemed; Town to Have Branch Bank. Thirtv thousand acres of laud near Lyman, Wyo., will be reclaimed through a new irrigation project to be established near that place, and which is to be fed from Black's fork, a tributary tribu-tary to Green river, according to Joseph Jo-seph W. Field, who has been in Salt Lake for a few days consulting with irrigation engineers as to the details and cost. Work is to begin on the project at once, Mr. Field says. Concerning the progress being made by the town of Lyman, Mr. Field says: We are just entering upon an era of progress such as our region has not heretofore known. The town is just throwing off the swaddling swad-dling clothes of provincialism and is preparing to don the habiliments of city existence. Wo have plenty of land and an abundance of water wa-ter for it. This new irrigation proiect which we are going to install in-stall will add 30,000 acres- of tillable till-able ground to the town 's assets and resources. T went to Lyman eighteen years ago in companv with Louis R. Pope of Salt Lake," both of us settliug there with our families. We are within eleven miles of a transcontinental railway, the Union Pacific, with the town of Carter as the nearest station. Within ninety days we will have a bank in operation in Lyman a branch of the First National bank of Evanston, Wyo. We already have a weekly paper, the Bridge r Valley Enterprise, and our citizens are looking forward to an era of exceptional prosperity, beginning with the good harvest of this year. Mr. Field is a former citizen of Utah, ha vine been reared in Beaver, the son of Joseph Field, proprietor of the Beaver Bea-ver Enterprise from 1868 to 1880. He was well acquainted with the late S. A. Kenner, of newspaper fame in Utah, and knew Josiab Rogerson of this city when he was assessor and collector for Beaver county twenty-five years ago. Mr. Field has served for two 3'ears as county commissioner of Uinta county and for twelve years acted as state water commissioner in hiB section of Wyoming. |