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Show KXTKRPH1SE llESKin OITt. Iron County Record Lyman Canfield and W. IT. Marshall came in from Enterprise, the new town which is being' built under the Enterprise Enter-prise reservoir near Hebron, in Washington Wash-ington county, last week Friday and returned Saturday. They are engaged in ranking tho brick for a school-house being erected at the new town. Their moulder had taken ill, and Alex Kollo of this place was taken out to complete the work. Mr. Canfield speaks in the highest terms of the new place. He says they have twenty-live acres of the finest corn in the country, which has never seer, water. A whole desert of unoccupied unoccu-pied government land is before them offering of-fering splendid inducments to home-seeker.s. home-seeker.s. A class of settlers who are not a fraid to work aiid who have sulh-oicnt sulh-oicnt capital to meet their living expenses expen-ses for the first year or two is desired: and for such people there is excellent opportunities to build up comfortable homes. Mr. Canlield says it is his intention in-tention to cast his lot with Enterprise people. There are as yet only four houses in the town, but others will build this season. Only a start, comparatively, has been made on the reservoir which is designed design-ed to furnish all water for irrigation purposes. (Culinary water of excellent quality can be procured almost any place with wells at a moderate depth.) The dam is only i! feet high and when completed it will exceed 80 feet: and even now the water covers a tract of land a mile and a half long by half a mile wide. Cap. Isaac Macfarlar.o of St. Ceorge, who has done the surveying and engineering for the enterprise, estimates that the reservoir when completed com-pleted will store a body of water averaging averag-ing a mile long by half a mile wide and forty-live 'feci deep. This quantity of water' would irrigate an enormous trad of land and furnish employment and homes for many people. The soil is said to be very fertile and adapted to dry land arming. Good ranges for cattle surround the settlement, settle-ment, and all the conditions seems to unite to make of it an ideal spot for a rural home. Should the Oregon Short Line extend south, the town will be on or near the railroad. The reservoir is owned by individual stock-holders, the company carrying no floating stock, and interests must be acquired from them. Assessment s are made to conduct the work on the dam. which with the exception of a live percent per-cent cash levy are payable in labor. This is the opportunity for our young people who are willing to labor to build up homes. There is much talk of petitioning peti-tioning to have the county line changed so as to bring this region into Iron countv. The settlers are getting ln-art-ilv sick of traveling the long rough road to St. George. Their IniMni-r is all this way. and they are anxiou- to become annexed to this count. . |