Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-06 | Page 21 | Drainage Urged for 18,000 Acres Along Utah Lake

Drainage Urged for or Acres Along on Utah t a Lake PROVO March Supervisors 5 ot of Utah lake lale control drainage district district dis- dis riled filed a report FrIday afternoon after atler- noon with the county commissioners commission commission- ers involving more than acres ot of land surrounding Utah lake laie from LIncoln beach on the south to the Jordan Jord n river on the I north The project includes aU all aUland land In this district from compromise compromise compro- compro mise point to eight feet above compromise pOInt A complete te set or of blueprints defining defining de- de fining the boundarIes of mote more than 1000 tracts of land ranging In size from one acre to acres accompanied the report The board recommended that the lal lake lakebe e ebe be held below compromise point as the control ot of the lake to even seven feet below would provide sufficient water for Irrigation purposes purposes pur- pur poses an and would bring under cultivation cultivation cul- cul this large bodY of tillable land which Is now submerged or orp p partly submerged In Supervisors ot of the Utah lake lale control drain drainage ge district ar are E. E S. S Hinckley c John W. W Alleman Alleman Alle- Alle man secretary and S S. S W. W Chipman Chipman Chip Chip- man American Fork