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Show WILL RECLAIM BIG ACREAGE ARTESIAN WELLS GIVE WATER T' WO views of the gushing- artesian wellon the Almon Robi-II Robi-II son ranch, which spouts 7500 gallons of water a minute. . ' . '.V si-.;.:-.i- .,..' ':. ' j.'i-Amjlwtv.tinnw...- Lij.i tj im ttf'jrtwiiuinivS'VV :r,:::::--::.:r; i " :y M ym Novel Method Employed in Irrigating Millard County Coun-ty Tract. CONVERSION of more than 150,000 acres of sagebrush land in eastern Millard county into productive farms by means of artesian well irrigation is a project that is being successfully suc-cessfully worked out by the farmers of that section of the state, known as Fillmore Fill-more valley. Already more than thirty-two wells have been bored and several thousand acres of land have been put under cultivation, cul-tivation, according to Clintou D. Bav of Kay & Greenwood, and V. R. Roberts Rob-erts of the Ueseret Drilling companv, who are interested in this method of developing de-veloping that section of the state and who have just returned from an inspection inspec-tion of the district. In connection with the reclamation of this district it is planned to 'make sugar beet raising oue of the principal industries and the general development plans include three or four sugar factories, fac-tories, in addition to.' the one now at Delta, and an extension of the San Pedro Pe-dro road from Delta to Holden and possibly pos-sibly southward to Kanosh. Plans for this extension have already been worked out by the railroad companv and the farmers, it is announced, and if the necessary acreage of beets and the sugar factories can be assured, as is expected, the road is to be built, it is stated. Large Territory Concerned.- The territory which it is proposed to reclaim by this novel method of irrigating irri-gating from flowing wells is a strip from five to ten miles" in width stretching along the bench of the valley for a distance dis-tance of about thirty miles, 'it is in the district known as Fillmore vallev and extends up above Holden and south to Kanosh. It is pointed out that the canal of the Sevier River Land & Water companv runs further back from this tract and will reclaim thousands of acres, but this strip of bench, which it is proposed to irrigate from flowing wells, lies in a position where, it is claimed, it Mill he cheaper to drill wells and irrigate from them than if would be to secure the water from the canal. Mr. Roberts says that, the wells that have been driven are capable of irrigating irri-gating from 160 to 6-10 acres each and that there is ample supply of underground under-ground water to meet all requirements in reclaiming this great and fertile section sec-tion of laud. Flow 7500 Gallons a Minute. Just recently a well was completed on the ranch of Almon Robison, about four miles west of Fillmore, that gives a flow of 7")00 gallons a minute. A picture of this well in action is given above. It furnishes water enough to irrigate "no acres of land, it is figured. This well is the seventh that has been drilled on the Robison farm and all are furnishing a goodly supply of water for irrigation purpose's, it is stated. . The cost of this well was about 5n() it is reported, and the comparatively inexpensive means this affords of getting get-ting water on the land is pointed out. It, is declared by the farmers of the district who are turning to the flowiiu' well method of reclaiming their lands that it is destined to convert this see. tion of the state into oue of the richest and most productive districts in Utah ing to word received by the local Firestone Fire-stone agency. The Firestone company has shown its confidence in its employees to the extent ex-tent that every employee subscribing under the plan immediately becomes a ' registered stockholder, and as such is entitled to all the privileges of a stock-holder. stock-holder. The sweeping acceptance of the plan by the organization has stirred up the keenest interest among industrial experts because of its strikingly original orig-inal features. The stock allotted to the emplovees, amounting to approximately approxi-mately 3',000,000, was distributed on s the basis of length of service, not ou the usual basis of salary earned. In short, the sweeper or the shoveler got more stock than the hiph executive, if he had served longer, up to a period of five years. All who had been employed em-ployed more than five years were on an equal basis and entitled to the same amount of stock. |