Show THE BEGINNING big reclamation project A wonderfully fertile land to be brought under cultivation bait lake tribune with the filing of application for water rights in washington county at the of the friday firby steps were taken for putting under irrigation acres of land along the virgin m er the application was filed by J M laur itzin of richfield county and asks for tho granting of cubic feet of water per second making a total of acre feet of water to be used and stored from january 1 to december 31 tho point of diversion is about four miles above washington county near alio boundary line between washington and kane countice ohp w ork includes a dam and canal the latter with diverting channel feet long 40 feet wide at the top and 20 feet wide at tho bottom the ando feet per mile tho lands to be irrigated include the following tho south half of township 42 south range 11 act the cist hilf of township 42 south range 14 west all of township 43 south range 11 west township 43 south range 12 vest township 43 14 and township 43 south 15 west allot township 44 south range 15 west and whit is known as the berry springs bench in the south of tho virgin nver country and containing 1000 acres tho total irrigable arc thus acres |