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Show 75,000 ACRE FEET OF WATER IS SOUGHT Indication that the government ta puah lug the work of Irrigating 176. eon acrea of fertile lands In the South Myton and Inland bench ritatrtrta. ta eeen In the fact that J. I.. I.ytel. project manager for the Strawberry Irrigation project, hae filed on en eridltlonal 7.ooo-acr feet In the I'lnta baaln. Thle le n line with the general plan proponing to control the flood watere of the Colorado tributaries lo Irrigate 4.mM).0W) acre of virgin land tne.000 of which lie In Ttah. The leat filing Involves ths Impounding of 7S.IWS feet of water from the Xtrawherrv river behind an earthen dam lie feet IsVh a few mllee above the town of Duchesne. |