Show WOULD PUMP WATER TO BLUE BENCH LAND Knight Inight Investment Company Asking Askin Uintah I Power and Light Company Company Com Cum Ilan pany About Rates nates on two tivo t o II IL I P. P Motors The Knight Investment company compan has asked tho the Uintah Power d Light LIgh company to make lowest rates rales fo for or pumping water waler for the immense immens acreage of agricultural land fand on Blue Blu bench The canal Is built through some bad land between the tho intake a aRock at atRock Rock Rock creek and where it goes onto ont bench bench benell Flume trouble this summer is said to have cost the tho Knights Knight thousands of dollars The first cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting of oC hay was practically burnt u up for lack of water C. C E E. E Allen secretary of oC th the Knight company has written Heber Hebe T. T Hall manager of oC the Uintah Power Pow Pow- er Light company to make rates rate for furnishing current for two 45 h. h p p. p motors His letter in part Is as follows Knight Investment Company I Provo Utah July 31 1922 Heber T. T Hall Manager Uintah Power Light Company Myton l Utah Dear Sir SirVe We Ve have been considering considering considering consid consid- ering the feasibility of Installing installing install Install- ing fug a pumping plant to fUl furnish water for our Blue bench project project pro pro- at a point where it would eliminate the bad ground over which our present canal Is built Whether or not this would be practicable would depend almost almost al- al most entirely on the cost o of power Will ViII you kindly advise the at which you could deliver doliver from your line Une which crosses the Blue bench at a point about two miles from the corner orner where you turn south and nd the tho lowest rate rato you could possibly make us current for lor two h h. h p p. p motors The greater part of the pumping pumping pump pump- ing would be done prior to the fifteenth o of July which would be during the high water period and during which time we think you should be in a position to furnish us power at a very Tery low rate Yours trulY truty C. C E. E ALLEN sec Hec ec The rate quoted by the Uintah Power Light company has no not been made public but we understand it is around for tho the Irrigation Irrigation gation gatlon season The am and tillable land under the Knight ditch will exceed acres It w would ud seem that a dollar per acre cre for pumping would be reasonable I It would mean much not only to the Uintah Power Light company tho the Knight Investment company but to the entire Uintah basin if 1 this deal goes through 0 o |