Show A natural reservoir A natural reservoir site covering from two t wo to three thousand acres of land was surveyed the past week by county surveyor B 0 colton col ton for an association of vernal men namely W A taylor robt doak J B roark L N shanks A L gray and dan lubberts it is known as the pelican lake reservoir and is situated in township 7 south range 20 east some three miles west of green ner n ier at a point known as babers bend it is estimated that there is at least three sections sec tiona of good tillable land that can be irrigated from the reservoir an eighteen foot cut wil be necessary to drain the lake as it is a natural lake and now contains a vast body of water from the melting snows of the past winter they have filed on the site bite with a protest against two or three desert land entries which were made a short time ago the object is to fill the lake with water from the uintah and build a hotel and put boats boata on the lake for a pleasure resort as well as to irrigate the desert land below it |