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Show OltTIIY V STATE AID. No oi lier enterprise is more worthy and deserving of State aid than bona tide reservoir and canal undertakings. These enterprises are doing more to encourage the settlement of arid lands thananylhingel.se. Wo have in mind one such undertaking in this county, . the Enterprise Koservoir & Canal Co. The object of this company is to con-line con-line the waters of Shoal creek in Little I'ine valley by a dam of masonry SO feet high, 20 feet wide at bottom and 8 feet wide at, top, fronted by a bank of earth hit) feet wide at bottom with a slope of 24 inches to each foot to the top. This will form a reservoir one mile long by half a mile wide with an average depth of 45 feet of water, which '. will serve to irrigate 5,500 acres of land as good as any in the state. The amount already expended on the dam is $17,000, and it is estimated that it will cost about 8,500 to finish it. The people constructing it arc all poor, and have, been devoting their means and energies for years to this enterprise without any return, until now they sorely feel the need of means to complete com-plete it. |
