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Show for the land. This immediately thriving community com-munity became known as Ingersoll, and soon boasted a regular post office. Everything had worked out as planned and the future looked bright to the colony, when without with-out warning the dam burst. Despite Des-pite heroic efforts to stem the break, the farms were flooded and the town completely ruined. In 1906, following the flood and the failure of subsequent attempts to raise capital for rebuilding, the tenants became discouraged and left. Some few started a settlement settle-ment at Clear Lake, but even this proved a long tragic struggle and this site was sold to the state In 1938 to serve as a bird refuge. Today, no house or fence marks the site of Ingersoll; the lake Is dry; the land is baked by drouth and sun; and for all visual evidence the region might never have been peopled at all. From the files of the Utah Writers' project, W. P. A. QUAKER COLONY STARTED IN UTAH IN YEAR 1893 Among the few outside groups which sought tolerance and subsistence sub-sistence in the high-walled valleys val-leys of Utah, the Quaker colony of 1893 was perhaps most unfortunate. unfortun-ate. This group, composed of more than one hundred persons, settled at Swan Lake in Millard county in 1893, and immediately laid plans for mass production of farm products. pro-ducts. The group was plentifully supplied with money, and the leader, lead-er, C. W. Allridge, is reported to have spent more than one million dollars in improving the settlement. settle-ment. The first enterprise was the erection erec-tion of the Swan Lake reservoir, an immense project which covered more than 7,000 acres. The company com-pany also secured some 10,000 acres of farm land and began to grow alfalfa on a large scale. More than fourteen miles of levee was also constructed to hold the water |