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Show ENTERPRISE. A drnc3 Cpjortnnlty For Settlors. A person that has never been here can have no conception of the immensity immen-sity of the reservoir undertaking here nor of the amount of land that can be brought under cultivation when this reservoir is completed. A trip to the place will convince any one, and I warrant war-rant that if he is hunting a home that he will immediately secure a lot and commence work at once to establish himself and family here. The townsite itself is one of the finest that nature can produce, and the finest farming and grazing land stretches out on either side for miles, giving an opportunity to any honest and industrious man to secure for himself and posterity a fine homestead that will be the envy of thousands of people. Lots are for sale at the very reasonable price of $2.50; blocks of 5 acres each are from $12.50 to $15.00; besides this inducement any one can file on a quarter-section below the town, fence for two years and at the end of that time can have hay-land that will produce from a ton to a ton-and-a-half of fine blue grass hay to the acre. The experimental crops this year would astonish one to see them; corn, potatoes, pota-toes, squash, beans and grain have matured mat-ured without a drop of water, and will compare well with crops that have been irrigated in other porjions of the state. This being the case, can you wonder what the final outcome of the new settlement will be? Every inducement induce-ment is offered to settlers, all that is necessary is for them to come and examine ex-amine the prospects, and I feel satisfied satis-fied that they will locate here. As to the reservoir itself, it is an immense piece of work. The dam as it now stands is some 26 feet high, fitted between be-tween two large mountains of solid rock; it is 20 feet thick at the bottom, of solid masonry, and is 90 feet in iength; in front of this is a second dam 100 feet or more thick, composed of rock, earth and rick-rack work, making the dam when complete in the neighdprhood of 125 feet thick at the bottom, and gently sloping back until at the height , of 86 feet it will be about 35' feet thick, The dam is built in : a quarter circle, the convex side towards the water, thus preventing all possibility of its giving way; the dam is built on solid bedrock, and the reservoir when full will' be one-and-a-half or two miles long by half a mile wide and 45 feet deep; it will drain about 1Q0 square miles of country, and has no chance to lose water by leakage as the country is of a solid rock formation. forma-tion. As to annexation to Iron county I will say that Mr. Lyman Canfield is about the only man that I have encountered en-countered that openly voices the proposition; prop-osition; the balance of the people ; that I have conversed with ayp not overly favorable to it'. ' J. Y. Enterprise, Washington Co., Sep. 6, '98 |