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Show JIG DEVELOPMENT FOR DIXIE s TVOf MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT ADJACENT TO HURRICANE i -. times in the past this pa- ' - devoted space to the wotw 'J-Ui 1..:lilit:o! awaiting Oixte bv V e!opmont of irrigation to ' , .- u- lands lying ail- 1 (0 Hurricane ami on the p".Vy s;,r:.r..ss bench ami Warner ' V::,y. Two or tluee times it' '. j,. e::;ta that this development M, ' s-beti: to he made, only to end in '.)!V!V.tt!HT.t l.vaue of lack ,'e! juKiciou: capital. " i X.iw. !-.cwever. new hope is he'.iTi m i:,. Influential Cali.'.irn'.ji ; iv-ar-le have taken hold and iiu.v.d j :0 r ahead, fee lilts sure that ' a .-tart is made it. F. C. funds 1 ;.! be rtade available to carry the pre;:0i through to a finish. Y? " Slick, formerly of Idaho ' 'r. -v I. os Angeles, appears to ho j -ve ;"l:r.e mover in the enterprise. ' ;? sscefeJed in getting others in- i termed and for about a year in-1 in-1 T;;:ci;ioR have been quietly go- :-rward. IVscriptions of nil' I toe ritfr.ted lands, unpatented a'.- f SA :ha: wiS! come under the pro-: pro-: hae been assembled and - clarified, both in I'tah and on the Arl: r.a strip. The amount of ' lir.J that will be developed by ir- ! rlfatier. is somewhere between' C 3 . o : and 5') .000 acres, a larger j part of which is excellent fruit ' . s S. A. V.r.g. attorney for the pro-( pro-( jsct. recently returned from : Washington. D. C.. where he spent six wt-eks going over the matter .ith P. F. C. officials and came ' lick feeling highly encouraged .. i aid will be torth coining when :hr proper owing has been ; Lust Friday night Attorney S. , A. King and a party of California r.?c arrived here to look over the 5"-,;r.J. Among the California f pie were Melville Dozin. Jr.. I .-hief-.-r-gineer of the project. Lest jTiir-.acn the president of the .'.any and his attorney, John if ? i'iUon. F. V. Phillips and W. H. Slick. Tliey ' spent Saturday lookiliK over the jtroiir.d and left Sunday, Mr. Klnn for Salt l.ak.v ic others for l.oa AilKeUs. Mr.. Kb:n-on i tinancmg the project to a stimo when 11. K. C. Tands will bo obtainable. The lo-' til amount required will be not :."-s than two million dollars, for iH-s'.des iuipoundir.g water tor Irrigation, Ir-rigation, power plar.ts are propo-- For the puvpio of olitarn;n; information in-formation for tir K. F. C. airplane air-plane Mirvcys will be made over tl-.e entire tract. This is luadc po--ib'e by a C.erman invention 1 h ivel::-' the country can be re- connouered and contours nude 'with considerable accuracy. The intention now i to linish maps. p'ts. Jrawinss of n . ervoir -ites ai il a 1 oth-r details noco--ary for the tlnal decision of the It. F. C. a T.uraiire having bei ii given .;.... find- would be available avail-able if tlu prep- r -iiowins is made. The plans ii:o(iom one reservoir site below the f rks of the road in lower Long alley. Another reservoir res-ervoir site is the loner part of Virgin the people of which town would move on to bench lands probably. Still another reservoir site is Bench lake, the latter be-, be-, ing used as an equalizer. It is con- sirter-d highly probable that all j three reservoir sites w ill be utiliz-i utiliz-i ed. A tunnel four and one-half I miles long below Virgin will carry i the water to Gould's wash and in-; in-; volves construction of .-torage dam I at what is known as 'ie,.p r.ridc. I below Virgin. The lur.nel ill concrete lined. Th'e water after j going through the tunnel will be utilized for power purposes. I Surveys will probalily be com-nienred com-nienred within the next two weeks. This project will begin the real d- velopment of Dixie and its coni-p'(;tlon coni-p'(;tlon will mean the developmcr.1 of other projects. Keep your eyes on Dixie. |