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Show ' irrigation project 0f large proportions A new company is being organized which will have for'its object the irrigation irri-gation of part of the tillable arid lands of Morgan, Weber. Davis and possibly Salt Lake counties. Interested in the company are Samuel Sam-uel Newhouse. Wlllard Young. Dr. T. B. Beatty and F. C. Kelsey. all of this city. The plan of the company will be to ..take advantage of the surplus flow of the Weber river during the early spring months and with a series of reservoirs store water to be used later along In the season. From these reservoirs a system of canals will be built to carry the water to different parts of the counties " named. There is no stream In the State that has a better possibility of furnishing properly stored surplus water to valuable valu-able land than has the Weber river, i It is stated that the plan was considered consid-ered by Government experts, but was dropped for the present in order to givethe Strawberry valley project the right of way. |