Show lauritzen wants to buy hatchtown Hatch town reservoir J M Launtz cn returned from silt lake on friday where he had been on business for the western construction aa well aa his biff dixie reclamation project while in salt like he appeared before the state board of land commissioners ners and submitted a proposition for the purchase of all alie available land 1 ing un dothe re senoir as ft ell as for the reservoir itself tho offer lie made ft as 4 per acre for the lind amounting to about and the cost of the reservoir approximately the matter will bo considered by alio board until its regular meeting on january 20 when a dicion will be reached mr Launtz cn represents an eastern syndicate in this offer and if the project is sold to him alie lind mil likely bo offered to it is a valuable piece of work and includes tho big hatchtown Hatch town reservoir and about 16 miles of canal an offer has been made to the state board by borne of the landowners in this valley to purchase the water from alie hatchtown Hatch town project and have it brought down the river to tins valley where it can bo used on the and lands to the north ol 01 rich field if the project is sold m its as proposed by mr lauritzen then the syndicate purchasing it will have the exclusive use of the water but the baird will probably reserve the right to dispose of alie season of 1910 richfield reaper |