Show LIKE RESERVOIR SITE STAI C LAND BOARD LOOK AT DRAW S state ta to engineer tanner estimates that reservoir will cost including canal ashley valley favorable agricultural district 11 at the state land board means business in tho the matter of the diab reservoir proposition is evident from the fact that all the members of tho the board have now inspected the proposed site the dragon stage last sunday night brought to vernal william J lynch chairman john degrey dixon secretary william thain and henry M 11 clayes ayes members of the state land board and Caleb tanner state engineer ineer tho the next morning in company with senator bennion commissioner W H and sheriff elect T C menoil 14 eil these gentlemen visited the proposed reservoir site the proposed canal aiom the ashley river to the reservoir site and the bench east of this valley state engineer tanner made a rough estimate of the cost of the reservoir lie ile and the members of the board are of the opinions that it will cost not less than 80 all members of the board are convinced that there is plenty of high water available for storage purposes and an abundance of land the only question in their nunda minds is whether the cost of construction of the proposed canal system and reservoir will be too gleat to justify the expenditure the gentlemen are all highly pleased with the agricultural possibilities of ashley valley and they are very favorable to the proposed undertaking the first step that will be taken will be the compilation of the data already on hand and securing more if necessary the actual cost of will be computed after af ter which a decision will be rendered by the board now that this matter is under consideration WP we should render every possible assistance and by every every honorable means endeavor to secure favorable action by the state land board on the proposed reservoir and water s stem aten it means the reclamation of aalthe all the and part of the ashley valley and the doubling of our population it is one of the most important public liopo sitione sit ions with which this community has as ever been concerned william thain of cache county one of the members of the state land board is an expert on dry farming ile he stid slid that some of the sage brush flats north of the valley appeared to him to be ideal dry farming fanning propositions of course they were too small but the soil is adapted to dry farming according to his opinion william J lynch chairman ch of the state lani board was the republican candidate for mayor at the last muni mum civial election at salt lake city he was appointed chairman of th the eState land board to succeed william spry when the latter was appointed united state marshall Ma ishall |