Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-02-25 | Page 1 | Buckhorn Project next Big Irrigation Tract to be Opened

I PROJECT f. f I II I TRACT TO BE 8 OPENED Will Supply Water Vater to 24 Acres in Emery Count County In a short time another large iniga- iniga ton Uon tract in Utah is to be lie opened up for foJ settlement by a a. company compan of or local and eastern men menThe The tract which is in In Emery count county has booSt been provided with water rights and is III all aU ready for the leal leasing ing to agriculturists and tile the sowing of oj crops as soon as the thc final arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments are arc made tot for the opening under the Ihl Carey act The tract will be known n as the Buckhorn Buckhorn Buckhorn Buck- Buck horn irrigation project and anda was a recently approved by the department of the In Interior in- in tenor and the president of the tho United States The land to be actually irrigated consists consists con con- of Buckhorn n flat Slat about acres and Hayden and Melville flats fiats about acres the Buckhorn reservoir lying between the two tracts This land is situated about aboul twentythree twenty twenty- three miles south of Price station about tw twenty one one nty-one miles s southeast of or Huntington Hunting- Hunting ton tot all In Emery y COUll county f The land hand Is exceptionally well II adapted to fruit cul en- culture ture tune the soil oll being for the most moat part a choice brownish red sandy loam loans Buckhorn BUIlt Buck horn horti flat fiat proper Is entirely surrounded b b. b by r the warm sandstone Cedar mountains Some of tho the choicest choke t fruit In th the state is to be found o at Huntington Huntingdon F Ferron I Emery m y ant and Orangeville nr vM n at r preen n River Biver and at Moab to th the southeast The water supply comes partly from Hull huh hollow which drains drains' a considerable le portion of ol th the tho Cedar mountains anti and also from river The project is largely lars an impounding proposition The project was originally launched by George A A. Snow of Chicago o James e A. A Me f ifo t Melville Y and John W. W Taylor Tax of this city lt the thEl procedure being under the I the Carey act Due notice of the opening of the lands hands to will il be given hen alien all is in lii readiness readiness-