| Show another big reservoir for beaver county wahwai wah wah valleys Valle the scene of important irrigation and dry farming project As announced in our columns somo some little timo time ago 11 F P sutton button rind and D din tn pitzel the latter of los angeles call cali fornin have been for some little time working on a project projection in wah wah valley southwest of newhouse the scheme is 13 partly one of dry farming aud partly ono one of irrigation there are no established streams in wah wh wall valley which c can n bo be dimind damin Td but there aro are at times large quantities of flood water in the spring and also at other times of tho year duo due partly to the melting of snow that falls during the winter and also to big anin storms which uro are often nothing less lees than cloud bursts re be centhy mr pitzel has bought out the inter interest cst of mr Sut sutton tn so that mr air pitzel himself is the sole owner and of this enterprise NJ mr r pitzel is at tile the present timo time engaged in building g a duin dam twenty two feet high and one hundred fifty feet wide at the base and of course considerably wider at the top lop 0 As to tho the thickness of the dam aam we WB have not been advised but wo we understand it is a dirt dam find and is being constructed I 1 by meana of four frer presno no scrapers Bc iy ay ditched itched to a gasoline tractor this dam dain will back up quite a lot of flood water whenever sufficient water fulls folls to fill the reservoir back of it it is the expectation to secure enough water to give at least one irrigation to a large acreage of land the land is IB being acquired under the various united states lawa and also partially by purchase from froin tho the state stale to the north af pf of tho the dani wiford milford news |
