Show LAN TO WATER ACRES BY PUMP M- M I C fARM OWNERS i lAUN LAUNCH H mG BIG I i PR PROJECT t I I Station on Jordan Jorda I River to Begin Work on July 1 Will Lift Water to Elevation of Feet j IRRIGATION of acres of I I 1 land in Davis county about I four miles north of the state capI capitol capitol cap- cap itol ital to bring the land under cultivation cultivation cultivation cul cul- I for truck and garden crops by pumping water from the Jordan river to an elevation of I feet will begin about July 1 I accordIng according according accord accord- ing to information received by state officials Farmers in that section of Davis Da county propose to form fonn an irrigation district and will meet t the latter part of ot January to effect an an ani j i organization and to elect officers INSTALL PLANT I I A A power plant and pumping station will wll be erected along the banks of the Jordan Jordal at a cost of according I to present plans Already the Davis cOlin county ty farmers have filed application with George F. F McGonagle state en engineer engineer engineer en- en I for seventy second feet of water to supplement their present supply The land that is to be irrigated runs in all directions from Bountiful as a center point running to the Salt Lake-Davis Lake county line During the spring thaws the lake near Bountiful fills tills up and furnishes water for Irrigation Irrigation gation gatlon purposes until about the latter part of June when it dries up The purpose of the new irrigation district is to pump the water from the Jordan I to the land after the lake lale shall have dried up WILL SEND VALUES SOARING I The coming of the irrigation district district district dis dis- will send land values in Davis DavisI county soaring Within three or four I years those well informed believe the land will have become so valuable I that it will be used only in acre tracts as a suburban village With three railroads running through it through transmission lines and anda a a. I paved road the land will be too valuable valuable valuable able to hold in large tracts it IsI is I believed belleve |