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Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-25 | Page 7 | Huntington

Type issue
Date 1903-05-25
Paper Deseret Evening News
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Huntington
Type article
Date 1903-05-25
Paper Deseret Evening News
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 7
OCR Text Ill AT CONVENTION COS Project tn to Beautiful Piece Of or Orchard Country Special Correspondence Kmer 1 mer Co May IS Great interest Is taken laken In this county In the proposition to 10 open up lint for tho occupation of Tho citizens assembled In convention nt this place today to consider the ques question tion and much enthusiasm was wal awak ened In the project which Is consider considered ed most practicable and A committee was appointed consisting ot or representatives from each precinct In l mer county to prepare data etc and prepare for tor the of the state board of ot land commissioner who will visit lIlt Emery county In June and consider the matter of ot opening up UI the nat flat for settlement The rhe committee Is 18 made madl up ot the following A of Cleveland Jal Peterson of or Castle Dale Andrew An Anderson Anderson derson ot of F A of Perron 1 W A of Lawrence Lowrence Dan Powell of Lake Bishop Brink of J Lyman Beach of Mo Molen Molen len Orson of lr Clawson Wm Foy JO of Green It JUnr her Scott Milton ot of Representative on who Is at the head ot of tho proposition 1 his hi Ideas regarding the Rat flat and raid that In his opinion the land was the Jest best In Inthe Inthe the state for horticultural purposes and nil also said that h he was wall satisfied that the state board ot of would do all In us power for tor the re ru reclamation of ot the land flat llata comprises about IU O acres acrs nf ot beautiful land IlInd lying under the tho south Routh end of or Cedar mountain some 12 mile eat of or tl Dale and SO miles south of ot Mounds an on the Denver Dener Rio JUa Grande railroad the nearest rail 1811 railroad road To 10 water 9 It a dam would have hac to be built at the base bae of Cedar mountain to catch Ih the th rainfall and an another other to catch flood waters aters of Hunt cr k In the To Insure a astill still sUII safer lAter water supply It Is II proposed to establish a In the tho Wa Waatch atch mountains In the of Millers flat turning the water Into Inlo Hunting Huntington ton creek c k thence Into the Cleveland Cle land canal to the tho nat flat The co cot t of the reservoirs r canal Inal work and Is variously at rom from to Those who hav haO een n It say that Buckhorn tnt flat Is I one anI of at the prettiest of land In Utah Iah It Is perfectly level Iel anti and the th soil I a loam U It was all discovered at the time tho Den Denver ver cr Rio lUo Grande railway wa under construction from Grand Orand Junction tn to Ogden when the thO line was surveyed via in Buckhorn flat that soil soli was fully 10 to feet deep d p The climate Is mu h like that of et Mob and It Is II believed that the land would ouM make mako an Ideal grating district
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