Show draperville Drap erville this settlement which is situated inthe in the southern part of this coun the east of tb the e jordan and commonly known as south willow creek has not generally had a sufficiency of water for irrigating cl a purposes excepting in early spring in in consequence of which altho aitho the soil is of a fine quality for this country grain growing operations have not been carried on there as extensively as they would have been under other circumstances last spring 7 some of the citizens bought a farm of mr air A S merrill on dry creek between draperville Drap erville and union and petitioned the county court of great salt lake county which under the law had control of the matter for the privilege of taking that portion of i the waters of that stream that had been formerly allotted to that farm over to the thel draperville Drap erville settlement by a canal cut along at the base of the mountains which request upon due consideration was granted the result of which as per report of one of the cit leens of that precinct made in our office a few days since is that at least eight thousand i bushels ot have bare been produced tansi this I 1 I 1 season by means of the water taken there from dry creek whereas not as many hundred bushels would have been produced by the same water if it had been used on the old i farm on the creek where the soil is of an inferior I 1 quality the wheat in draperville Drap erville precinct has been principally harvested and the people are abundantly satisfied with the experiment for although 0 the digging t 0 of the canal was an e expensive x job they have been amply repaid by the increase of their crops in one year there are other places in this county where the water could be more profitably applied than where it is now used 0 if it the people interested could be made to believe that some of the soil they cultivate is not the best in the world |