Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 33 | Weber County Lands Subject to Drainage

WEBER COUNTY LANDS SUBJECT TO DRAINAGE Special to to The Tel Telegram gram OGDEN D hN March Committees 4 fm from mi the Pr proposed Posed drainage districts of Plain City and Hooper were in Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den today to confer with United States Stales Drainage Engineer W. W N N. Hall respectIng respecting respect- respect Ing tine the question ion of the dr feasibility of draining t 6 that section of f country I draining t 6 that section of f country The engineer engineer stated that he had pre prepared pre pre- pare pared a report on on the matter but that ho he could not Submit it had been passed until after it on at Washington However County Surveyor Ralph Corlew Corlew Corn Cor- Cor lew who has 8 been associated Jn associated with halt Hair In n making the Cl City has 1200 survey Stated that Plain acres of SS water logged t tand lands ands sUbject b to- to drainage and t that at there were a re of such lands In tile tHe Hooper district Mr Corlew reported that Hat th the cost of reclamation about 2 an in Plain City would be acre cre and 10 JW in an acre Hooper and that the would likely enhance the value of the l is lands ands little from 20 to 1 O an acre There question but what the farmers will ask the county commissioners to farm the drainage districts