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Show ! MINERS VILLE IRRIGATORS OBSERVE I PROJECT COMPLETION WITH BANQUET I j By Emily Gillins Members of the Yellow Mountain Land and Irrigation Co. I of Minersville were guests at a special banquet and dance recently, recent-ly, given by Gene Kirk of the Kirk Realty Co., Milford. The event was to celebrate the final payment of an agriculr i tural project purchased at $235,000 from the Boston Land Co., I 'formerly known as the Rocky Ford Irrigation Co. Attending the function were 130 persons, including John S. Boyden and his assistant, Al Tipple, legal advisors from Salt Lake City. The saying, "blood, sweat and tears," might well be applied to describe the feelings that have gone to make this large undertaking a success for the 38 men responsible. For, as in all projects, many problems arose which were not contemplated. contem-plated. These included water shortages, short-ages, assessment expense, fencing fenc-ing and unrealized cost of getting get-ting new farms in shape for those who did not draw a producing pro-ducing unit, expense of planting, plant-ing, irrigation problems, and the necessity to purchase machinery. ma-chinery. A dragline was purchased pur-chased by the company and paid for by members. The project began in 1944 when County Agent Hyrum Steffen called a planning meeting meet-ing to form committees for dairying, livestock and agriculture. As a result, the Beaver County Coun-ty Livestock Show is held each year at Minersville; a co-operative milk barn and pasteurizing pasteuriz-ing and bottling plant was built; and last, but not least, the agricultural project has now been realized. A committee of Milton Al-brecht, Al-brecht, Clarence Gillins, Truman Tru-man Brad'field, Stanley Mc-Knight Mc-Knight and the late Elmer Marshall Mar-shall was selected and negotiations negotia-tions were made with the Boston Bos-ton Land Co., then known as the Rocky Ford Irrigation Co., to purchase the Minersville Reservoir and accompanying land for $150,000. However, before be-fore the money could be secured in the spring of 1945, the sale was withdrawn. In March, 1949, purchase was negotiated at a price of $250,-000, $250,-000, by board members Stanley McKnight, Truman Bradfield, Sim Murdock, Frank Williams. Part of the land purchased already al-ready was under lease?, but the balance was farmed cooperatively coopera-tively by members of the project proj-ect until 1952 when a declaration declara-tion of trust was made, dividing the land into 40 units of 00 acres each, and a drawing was made by each member of the project for the number of farms agreed upon. Since that time, each man has been responsible for his Continued on Back Page HERE'S MORE ABOUT MINERSVILLE Continued from Page One) own farm and the payment of his share of the cost. In the meantime, two more board members were added, Rulon Eyre and Clarence Gillins. An election was held, voting Frank Williams as president. On the first day ot Novem ber of each year from the purchase pur-chase dale, a payment of $30,-000 $30,-000 on the principal plus interest in-terest on the unpaid balance, was made to the Boston Land Co. On Nov. 1. 1934, the fmnl installment in-stallment was paid. The trustees of the Yellow Mountain Irrigation Co. are now ready to distribute to the lenef iciaries of the trust the remaining assets and present Hum with deeds to the land which they hold. |