Show ON THE ARIZONA STRIP improvements contemplated much new land being brought under cultivation good prospects county Vb sessor frank I 1 hunt returned from i a trip through the north part of mohave county lat last wee weel and reports great activity throughout thit that section at bean beier er dims one of the treat est irrigation projects in the state is ripening into legality the tile project pi eject embraces the building ol 01 a dim it the Nar narrows roNis on I 1 virgin river ar art I 1 the impounding of the ni waters aters of that stream to a height of 85 feet the structure being feet wide at the bae base and approximately proximately ip the ime sime s width it the top the camon cam on having very little flare ahe he promoters pro motors ot of t tf e project are I 1 C and wm win 11 1 0 brien ot of silt salt like city hugh al vilson ilson of new I 1 lorl orl and hirry harry jacobs of bait salt lal e city as engineer in charge Tor tortsen lisen and 0 brien have been working on the pi eject the past three eals and now claim to have it amply imply financed their option on the sit expires soon so that they have liane concluded to begin active e nv work ork on or beffie e the of may the dam dain vv will ill be built in the narion part of the canyon where the I 1 v irgin m ra er cuts its way through al est mountain of the I 1 irgin range rane ran e at this point the tile cliffs in each side of the stream rise almost perpendicularly several hun bun dred teet feet affording an ideal spot for a t damsite the river bottom is rocky and bleachable lea chable with small ex pense the dam dim is to raise the water high enough to carry it into the mesa lands land along the I 1 irgin the canals along that stream being car ned ried down fifteen miles from the head literals are to be carried throughout the valley and the farm ers will be assured of ample water right the canal will be ten feet NN wide ide at the bottom and fourteen fucet wile wi ie at the top ind and will carry water sufficient to liri litigate gate 15 acres of land this land along the N irgin is ilch in natural phosphates and is capable of producing pro ducin anything th it any land and in the world will produce it has been used to grow groll cotton on for belis besides all classes of fruits an 1 agricultural product bibring by bring ing in the mesa I 1 ands the farmers will hae bane a chance to vary their crops and pr luce such uch a quantity that it will be I 1 ut tit a short time until they will command a railroad lail road to take he be crops to marl et the is estimated to entail an ail expense of at least and the lands under the project are ire to be old gold at a price ot of from 50 per acre up with a t perpetual water right another project that will bring several thousand acres of land into the marl et la is that in canaan alley nalley whole laun A rust company is tal ing from the mountain to cleel lale lal e vibeke it will be bc impounded for it ri gating many thousands of acres all eady big flow of i is running into the hi lal e and a large number of men are at work reinforcing icing the bani of the like in this valley there is in immense acreage of land that con can be bi ought under cultivation the giester gi eater part I 1 of which in would be ideal lor for tl e grow ing of fruit the work of plowing the lands and preparing 1 it for the tile clops is well dundei way and within the net next few NN weeks all the seed will have been sown at wolf hole lake like twenty five miles south of st george farn farnacis icis a e etal tal ing up I 1 indman I 1 sewing giam un tin lei tl c dry barinin laimins c I 1 x pen ments have shown thit that tb the lands elands a can be made to produce largely by this method and ind with the present 0 year it is probable that ill all the lands that are within easy marl et condit ions will be taken up everywhere along that section of the county men r aie tal ing up lands and it will avill he bc but a short time until all the available linds lands of the northern strip will v I 1 resettled e settled upon in tact fact all along v the border from kanab to Fi ric donia edoniA there is noticeable activity among imong the farmers and all are beady io take up lands for faiming purposes just as soon oon c as surveys are made and the lands are open to preemption and ind homestead kingma in arizona miner minor r |