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Show v. MAMMOTH RESERVOIR. 7t Carbon County People are Considering a Proposi-n Proposi-n tion to Buy the lieser- voir Site. Price Advocate. District Attorney William D. Livingston met with the people of , the settlements of CaBtle Valley at Town Hall last Saturday evening, and explained to them the propo- sition of bringing water from the Mammoth canal to this section for irrigation and other purposes. At the meeting were present some forty or fifty representative business busi-ness men, ranchmen and others, all of whom were interested in the undertaking so far as it has progressed. pro-gressed. The gentleman had no definite proposition to make, but explained that his purpose was more to see if the people here were inclined to take hold of the matter and assist in the promotion and completion of the enterprise, which he frankly admitted was of too great magnitude magni-tude for the people of Sanpete county. To divert and conserve the waters on this side of the range would require a smaller expenditure expendi-ture and was, in fact, the most logical, log-ical, economical and practical. He said he would confer with the directors of his company and later no doubt would have something some-thing definite to offer. In view of this a committee of seven was appointed ap-pointed to receive any advances Mr. Livingston or his company should see fit to make, and to offer any counter plan which might suggest sug-gest itself after a consultation or meeting of or with the people of this valley. Mr. Livingston stated that the Mammoth company held and owned a reservoir site which had cost S5000, and it had in addition spent about sixty thousand dollars in constructing a dam which is now about twenty feet high, with numerous num-erous other improvements. To complete the dam so that twenty-five twenty-five thousand acres of land in this valley might be brought under ditch would require the labor of one hundred men and teams about one hundred days. If the scheme was taken hold of here at once the work of completing the dam could be finished the coming summer. |
