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Show HUGE IRRIGATION PROJECT PLANNED Water From Green River to Reclaim 250,000 Acres ! in Utah. i V ins for the reclamation of four i million a-r.s of arid and swamp land in the Colorado river basin. v0.0u0 Hcres of which Ite in I'tah. as farms for returned soMiers. s !rs and war Industrial workers, received startling ' impetus today The Cnttetl States i rt'd imatinti service, through J T- Iytel ' t f l'rovo. m.tn.nrer of tiw Strawberry I pro-ct. has filed on the tlurd big ir- ! j rieition propn-t in I'tah. j The filincs are on 4"0 second-feet of water to be taken from the Oreen j , river between April 1 and November t , ( to irrtpatc twenty full townships and j nine half townships. j I tnly 2 -0 ooo acres of the land ac- tu.llly will -e Irrigated, the rest be- Ini; left in the roui;h. the application j ets forth. The lands are In the San j liafael and Ween Itiv. r valle s. and the point of diverl'n is nO feet south j of the cenfhienre of Cal creek and j Coal river. The diversion r orks will cons'st of a reinforced concrete dam. j at Uast l.'O feet hich anl probably 2."0 j fe-t lonr. a headiiate and a canal. The canal will be s 1mm it U0 miles' t..nic. 1 4i feet wide at t he top and vo f... w'd- at tve borteni |