Show T YO MILLION 0 OLLAR POWER AND TION PROJECT five hundred foot dam in green river gorge to cover I 1 acre scheme under way there thera Is now launched and under lay sy a two million dollar irrigation ai ad cl power project for uintah county grein river the slow winding waterway that for thirty five years hs been nothing but waste and a barrier to the pro progress greEs of eastern utah tah IA and western colorado Is now to 1 be touched by the finger of df millions and be made to pour her waters into the valley between the bear and the white rivers bordering on the ling line of colorado and aid whirr dynamos for the generation of electrical power bi told that it ii tho the project set on foot by ex john pope now of ogden and his moneyed asso elates dates headed by enill short of san Pran francisco cisco aleksis pope and short made a flying trip by auto from ogden to vernal arriving here july ath and eded at tt once to tto the green gorge where the waters emerge aiom between tho the solid lock cliffs of split mountain the location of the proposed gibat dani dam and power site liter later they cohered a portion of the acre tract of land proposed to tobe be irrigated known know V as dead man alan bench and ld the coyote nal alley mr short is reported to ha have e been highly pleased with the country and it is understood dundei stood was ready to sign papers ii behalf of his financial backels practically fixing the certain I 1 ty of the pio proposition position only meager details of ahn impost ant project in uintah county are to be had at present after the necessary surveys su reys it is proposed to con a mammoth dam in the gheen rh river er deep in tile the gorge a lam clam feet high it is thought this can be accomplished successfully by driving I 1 tunnels into the cliffs into which will ill le be stored a sufficient quantity of houdei poev dei to crumble the clifus and topple them into the ganow gorge effectually darning daming the water to a depth of feet there will be it a tunnel over mer a nio mio long through tle the mountain as the heading to lifts allt great canal that will convey comey the water to the point where inhere it is proposed pio posed to drop part of it down into a power plant that will nill generate foice to lift sufficient water nater to cover coner the dead man alan dench bench the gravity canals will cover coer co er much of coyote valley allea i I 1 the darning of green river rier at this 1 point will in all probability cov con ei i 1 the island park NN with ith deep v ater and I 1 I 1 may touch the low loin er part of browns I 1 park ak As preliminary s store to this great project mr popo pope during the months of february land and march of this ear filed on oil 10 cubic feo fee of natel per second from tho the green river to be used by the uintah irrigation power company compan for power purposes only but the other purposes ma also be asked for in this filing all in all the consummation of the project meins the expenditure of over a million and thice quarters of dollars and will ill open to arid and homo home building in uintah county an additional two tv 0 bundled hundis d thousand acles fo land |