Show THE NEW S BE E TT tit L EM elixt E N T ON THE SEVIER seyler 1 I 1 I 1 CITY soth iggi 1861 30 blu emas elias ha Having returned from the new settlement on the sevier or rather from des dea seret city I 1 thought 1 1 i a short account of that place might be ii interesting i to you a nd to tho readers of the NEWS the settlement was commenced there one year ago ago list spring and is ia situated ad on a natural carial cagalj or all an old bed of 0 lle ile tile lie ri rier er three thre P miles from where it now runs at the head of this canal there has been a substantial dam darn made in theror riar the canal is large i enough to contain all the water wat e r running ninn ingin in the stream and continues in a curve curie curve on high ground some twenty miles and comes back again into the ther river iver from this natural canal a lage tract of land say fifteen tho floisand isard acres can be watered the men in that new settlement have done a great amount of hard work since the they y went there for in addition to making the d dam am in the river they haye hayre made two in the canal CA nal also aiso many large water ditches and from the work vork already done by it making laking some smaller ditc ditches ditch hta ts this vast tractor tract of land can be watered I 1 can cm say with tsa isa safety fety that if all the wealth of millard county had been spent in making dams canals and ditches for irrigating in p purposes 0 ies hone bone could have been beell construct U that tharp at would cb compare pre with IV ith the tho natural that exist tor for walerio this tract of land the early sown grain there booked well eeli |