Show Sanpele Notes The failure of crops during the past season Is being felt by the fanners of Saupcto County and many of their teams are pr yet with all their drawbacks a great breadth of grain is being planted The present prospects are excellent Tbe roads aro now dry but very rough and full of ruts Thou people of Gunnison with commendable energy are at work on a large reservoir located just west of Stirling near the junction of Saupltrh and Six Mile Creek A substantial dam Is being rlacet across the old river bed o the San pitch The old channel on either side a largo flat valley is rorcr by water to an e tnt of about one antI onufourlh by three and a half miles This vast Ixxlv of water Is held lack by a dam one 1ln 1r and twenty feet wide at the bottom constructed of a heavy red clay faced wjd rock hack and rout The dam when completed will b twentythree feet high and twenty wide on the top Tile cgar steel pipe is two feet in diameter tbu valvu is ohio of steel In brats slldtc and pretected bynsfcel screen around the entrance en-trance I is sltatantlally Ic in rvck and cement in order to enure saffty The whole Is being carried out from Iho specifications of a competent Large rotlltnt engineer Mood gales are being constructed con-structed to carry ofT the surplus water When the full bead of water is turned on I carries more water out than the GunuUou canals can control end Is estimated to ctm lower the surface of the reservoir one Inch In twentyfour bout This will give the people of Gunnisou ample water and allow them to increase In-crease the acreage of tillable ground The making the dam pureluueof right of way and reservoir reser-voir location will cost about one dollar and a quarter an acre for the laud cOVen Another reservoir is j Icing I constructed con-structed near Mayfleld There are manv libations whey Ito writer I I might b belt In reserve nod much of thin dry forbidding region eon series into productive farms Mayfleld huts been again afflicted remain with diphtheria there and some cast t11 Mantl is expecting a real Hat loom Just because certain person ertyA have made transfers of landed prop A lank I In project Mont and n cite fur its establishment has been urchased 1 The Temple has been well at etuied and many of the Saints arc taking ad vantage of theopporiunlt to ierforru ordinance work Jbllroad talk Is 1 still indulged in but though the Sanicto Valley did grading nearly to Mintl nothing more hiss been done Now nohIng Nevada i California ItallrontJ 1 ticking for a right of way and subsidize sub-sidize 1 from Urn different towns They jrejoosto fo have their line milt in Jesa than tweiityfou months MASTT March 10 TRAVELER |