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Show Era Writer Gives History of Bringing Water To Hurricane Hardships Related of Nine Year Struggle To Bring Water Through Canal To Hurrican Bench Land Under the title "When Water came to Hurricane", Richard L. Evans gives a graphic picture of the struggle to bring water to the Hurricane Bench in the last issue of the Improvement Era. Quoting from the records of the Hurricane Canal company and giving information infor-mation garnered by him from the living pioneers of the canal Mr. Evans presents a clear picture of the problems and hardships that went into bringing this fruit section sec-tion under cultivation. Placing the cost at approximately approximate-ly $60,000 of which $50,000 is represented re-presented in cooperative labor, Mr. Evans points out that this project pro-ject was completed after nine years of labor. Without help, other than their own, they were with their backs to the wall in 1902. They had completed the open ditch with its blasting, filling and bridging, bridg-ing, but were now faced with the need for money to purchase powder pow-der to blast tunnels and other difficult dif-ficult work. Faced with the nine tunnels sixty-two rods in agre-gate agre-gate length, the group were at a crisis. In writing of this Mr. Evans has the following to say: "In this crisis James Jepsen, president of the Hurricane canal company was sent to Salt Lake City to the First Presidency of the Church with a commission to make any kind of a bargain he could. He appeared before Pres. Joseph F. Smith, not to ask a contribution, con-tribution, nor for ch;u'ity, nor for Church support iu a .iew venture but to ask for business-like par-(Contlnued par-(Contlnued on page four) Missionary List (Continued from page one) Miles and Ezra Tobler. St. George West Leland Hafer and Dudley Leavitt. Veyo Israel Neilson, Jr. anc Archie Tobler. Washington James McArthui and Arthur F. Miles, j Ivins Wilford W. Cannon anc Barr W. Musser. |