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Show DIXIE PROJECT NOT FEASIBLE Dixie irrigation project in Washington Wash-ington county is not feasible under un-der present plans, declare officials of the U. S. Reclamation bureau. In their report they contend a full water right cost of $371 per acre is about twice what the land can support. Comparatively Deer Creek water wa-ter comes to $175 per acre, and Ogden river project $i08, they point out. The proposed project embodies 4,700 acres of undeveloped undevel-oped lands six miles southeast of St. George to be supplied with annual an-nual water yield of 21,000 acre-feet. acre-feet. Farmers would have to depend de-pend entirely on the stored water. The project contemplates diversion diver-sion of surplus Virgin river waters wa-ters and storage in so-called Bench Lake reservoir. |