| Show TO HAVE VINEYARDS EQUAL IIA TO i fRANCES fRANCE'S WHEN EIN WATER IS 18 TURNED ON A mooting meeting in i ill iii in progress today toda be be- tween the county o of oC cout and the directors of ot th tue cb r Power and anti Irrigation alion company that may mean much to tL the and owners of ot arid 1 anil a m arid and lands land in in- in Ua iM iH an aud atil Weber t coup coun ti tio ties and that may mar have an important efTe t upon Salt Jak Lake C City lv i file fhe n is Lein being heM held to con coot eom- lilote plans for or tit tho ms meeting o of and owners of ot land lanti In lit and Davis Unis which will be he held n neat t fue dar nt at Lagoon to uw th the advisability ability of fir creating under tinder the now new state al irrigation law tf triet tn irrigation tits dis ni or of Vf and is Dav counties countin Ar Ar- o Jl have havo bo n n completed fo for the tho i runDin running of special trains Irain from Salt Sal l Lake ake anti and from I O In to convoy convey those thoe wJ ar tire arc in itt the till project t to an anti l from front the meeting flu TK-FC trains train will wll be L. free r tickets being to o those interested bv liv the promoters o of the big Ing irrigation scheme At ittia th the f In th fh the construction of on one of of the tui Ia largest i am and Ij mot most irrigation at on canals in th the tato will be lie gone on info into in detail and the nc arrangements for or the perfecting perfecting-of o of the rho pr project which h have havo been for severa several Years earH m tn the formative II stage ta will be gone Kan one into The proposed canal which lh will fur lur mil nish h the th new irrigation district with water wilIer will be more than titan two fifty miles milts itt ill n length anti and will deliver to the tho lands under it more inert than cn cubic ie feet o of water Ilter per second Completo Complete in Two Years Tho The canal which it is ill proposed wiljo will wil bo be jo completed two years will wil commence at a 1 Point four miles west of Morgan on the tho Wt Weber r river er The rho rapid descent of ot tho the Weber river front from this hi point will J give o the caral an clara cleva ion tion ion or ot feet at a point where the Weber rivers ri enters Uintah valley alley The canal lint line which has been surveyed throughout hout and the lines of which have bine been een est established will bo be carried over what is known as the sand rid ridge e be tween Ogden nail and Pannill ton which it itt 8 the highest nf of tt tl a 1 ln tween Ogden 8 and Salt lt-Lai lt Lake City fi v This elevation IJo may bo materially increased in in- creased without a corresponding increase increase in- in crease rease in the cost ost of construction by tapping tappin the Weber river further west than nan the point proposed in the ori original inal survey With Wilh every mile further west vest vestan an n increased elevation of five feet Ceet for the canal is obtained The canal as surveyed extends to the he Davis county line aud and lips has as has bas been pr previously v sly stated a a carrying ca en J J J J it of GOO COO second fe feet et or four times iines greater volume than that of the tho Davis and ind Weber canal which now waters a largo argo area arta A part of this great flow of wealth giving in moisture will be diverted at a point where the Weber flows into Uin- Uin tab ah valley the the remainder continuing its tB flow southward The north canal will be ei eight bt miles mills in len length tb and will irrigate atc what is known as the Birch creek bench in Weber county continuing in ing ng I. I to fourth Twenty street O Ogden den to which Inch point the have ha been Leen surveys car car- i The south branch ranh of the canal will terminate at the lie old White fann farm near Bonneville 1 giving iD that branch a n total len length th of two thirty miles tidies and aud carry- carry ng tog water to a a. point within four mil miles s of f Salt Lake City The Tho elevation of tho 10 canal at this point will make it possible for the delivery of water into Salt Lake Jake City Cit City by y Wa way of Capitol hill 1111 Throughout hout its its length th the tho eana canal will p the 01 old 1 Provo lak bench level is below the old Bonneville lake bench level Ivel running an aera average c of I forty orty ft feet ct above the Provo o lake lalee bench level the markings of which may be e seen leeD from the railroad or waon wagon roads through h the valley Cross Cros ross Weber canyon It Tt will be necessary to siphon the theater water ater across tho the We Weber er canyon at a point two miles above tint Uintah b station on 1 the Union Pacific A hu huge hinge e steel siphon resting on on a 3 steel trestle will I accomplish this The en engineering dif dif- will be comparatively sli slight ht in iD perfecting thi this transfer T. T I. I L. L Allen secretary of or the coot com aD any with Joseph II n. Grant of Farm Farm- made the lie trip from Salt Lake it ity to Ogden along Ute the proposed line of the lie canal anal with a n number of ot invited guests in a tourin touring car driven by Herb Vail nil yesterday covering orin o rin tho the greater reater part art of the la lands d that will be bl put underwater under water voter by this system tI The Tho character of the Ibe soil is peculiarly adapted for the greater part of the theres lie area res to the tho cultivation of fruit oreb- oreb ortIs ertis and vineyards Thin The base of the tho soil Roil is decomposed granite enriched b dc mat mat- by decomposed vegetable ter er In 1 those parts of the district that have hap but bitt little o of 0 no water th the yield from the th dry dr farmin farming method i j ta scarcely worth tb the efforts made to Fe- Fe uro nrc prop crops Where water in is applied b. b by br I scientific irrigation irritation methods the mos most remarkable returns arc are made As an un example of this thi there is along alons the tLe route of ot the canal a small email patch o oveil of well veil watered ground round comprising m an eighth acre atre that yields one ODe crop or blackberries each cacti year valued a at O or at th the th rate of f 2560 an acre ane Thi This is hill hilly billy ground Wound with an u abundance of water The same saute d class of ground round given ifen over o overto to the tho cultivation of lucerne woul l yield iE not more titan than 30 an a acre re There I are arc thousands of acres of land identical identical cal rill in character to this thih that nr needs eds only the ma magic i of water waler to I convert nert it into inlo gold for or the owners The hilly character of the lands land with n the tho fin fine black loam loans thai that tha i is so essential to the successful cultivation ulti ration of orchards with wilh their petted perfect drainage and the light liht rich soils coils offer r opi to the scientific orchard orchard- it to 10 make makA a mint of money from Crom a n small email acreage The Tho yield in cherries on lands that are only comparatively com corn ely well watered in this district era n averages ts t's 1 per lr acre atre with a ready and constant market for tho the crop An lip Ap pies pits peaches pears pars and plums and in fact all fruits of similar character thrive o remarkably well in this district Th Thin Tho land does not lie lic at an elevation to catch the Iho early frosts anc and the he warm arm sunn sunny reach reaches 8 of hill land protected from the tho wind by the lowin low lying in hills give e every erry natural an ad ta Cage tage c to 10 the tho Cultivation of or Grapes The more broken and aDd ru rugged ed land is particularly desirable for the lion tion lon of vineyards in which at this time tune in n tIre the spots or fi favored d with a plentiful supply o of or orn n water ter the crops crop of grapes give ne returns of several hundred bundred dollars to o each ach acre The completion of the Davis is and Welter canal several se years ears a ago o. o brought i a marked improvement ment in land values valnea in to n the entire section r reached a hed and fed by this canal The project to furnish water valer t for the a arid d and jl semi arid a idne reK re- re e K gion ion n to be fae supplied by the lie proposed canal conal anal has had a similar effect upon the prices rices of the lands it will reach Land that hat was ts-as dry farmed four years a ago o and could have havo been blen purchased d at that time tinto imo for 3 an acre is held at this mo at prices ranging rangin from 0 to to an acre according to it its location with relation tn to the tho canal annl line lino a advance has haK been made ma in in tb the ri p-ri price bl because of aus the fact that water maybe available a at a date still undetermined The rise in in value alue is not caused by any nt in the tho land but by the prospect of water A part of the land that will be reached cached under the canal system is al- al c-ady c under tinder In drs' farm cultivation The yield is exceedingly small but hut all of his tIis land hand will ill be w watered and will give c enormous normous returns in bountiful crops fOpS to those hose ener energetic and far scein seeing owners on who have held it for the tho comin coming of the water Soil Adaptable It is planned that tho those e in the semi semi- arid rid lands may enter the new Weber ver irrigation project for such sueh suchart part art of the lands as nil they are now lit In n need of water waler to irrigate This will wille un be e so arranged ld under the operation of the he new law lat that Clint they the will not be required required re- re to be taxed for their present irrigated ir ir- areas antI and improvements under time the lie new ditch as wen well as under the one whose water they tire are no now non using In effect the tho new arraD arrangement does away with nth the possibility of double taxation by y the irrigation promotion Consid Consid- objection has b been en voiced by the tIme Carmer who have bavo been ulen of time the impression sion ion that they the would be subjected to towo two wo Only the dry dry anti and arid lands ands that will b be benefited benefit d bv by the tile new V ew canal system will be taxed b by that system Experts who have examined the time soil and ind the tIme area arca to be le reached and served by bv v the tIme new canal anal system declare dechame that the ie soil oil is identical identical to that of the time falous fa- fa amous lous Fresno fruit ruit belt in iii California that t is known the world over ovo for the excellence of its Is peaches pears and Giber her ber fruits They assert that the lands laud of f Weber Davis Darts and Salt Lake I.-ake county are ure re in every er respect to these and ud the tho only reason rason these lands have bave not ot been c converted n into rich rith orchard tracts is the lack lark of water They lia say av that lat tho the climatic conditions of Jo France rane rant and nd Italy are no more favorable to tIme the ic culture of 01 grapes rape than are those of Utah Utah and that water is the only es es- that is lakin lacking If It the farm firm era II ri nod and water users of the district jet agree agree to 10 the proposition for forming thin the 10 irrigation tion district there |
