| Show THE BIG bid MILLARD CANAL the people of millard county are interesting te themselves in an enterprise that I 1 is of vast importance to the ma aerial prosperity of that section of the he territory and in prosecuting th the to pro posed work to a successful jos issue no spey arp are deserving of full fall encouragement te project to is the construction of L th biggest of utah irrigation canals one tha hat t will be about sixty miles in length and will bring under irrigating ditches and water from fifty to sixty thousand acres of fine land the surveyors have gone over the ground and the route is practically agreed upon the plan Is in to take out a P large lance proportion of the sevier river the starting point of the be canal being near Lem two sinks fool creek sink and oak creek kinkor depressions on toe upper course 0 of ape be canal are to be utilized as an reservoirs reservoir and perhaps other and by the rid aid of the storage process it Is expected that there will be ample water for the he lands the canal all along its route to the termination in the fields belo below town of hulden holden the canal to is to he be six aix feet wide and aad three or four t teet e et iu in depth millard i is a large cownty wah a vast quantity of good land unoccupied 1 and as yet unavailable for cultivation until irrigation water can be brou braught brough gb to it the sevier bevier river lif Is a big atre trea jD an 1 its utilization for the he par purpose p e stated seems thoroughly practicable bojer the proposed scheme it it be made to work successfully there are indeed grand erand possibilities for that section of utah there are now etre stretches tobee of miles upon miles ol of wilderness marked only by the sagebrush greasewood and other growths characteristic of such localities there may be fruitful farms arms and gardens gar denH beautiful ful orchards orchard iii and thriving villages ard towns where of leople eat can find prosperous aad aai d happy h hames omee it if toot man is a benefactor to we tace race who makes two blades of gross grass to grow w where bere but one grow grew before then the leading spirits in millaid have before ore them in we this enterprise a 0 splendid 1 op fa 1 to 0 merit the 9 gratitude rat 01 of boots boat of future settlers in millard and the generations which shall follow in me working out of such a plan the future welfare ur boose affected aijo b it demands full consideration of the tbt methods methode which sho II be adopted in ID dida atee these it la in well to tile the practical lessons taught in utah s experience not dot that there Is ie any aay requirement qui rement to return to hardships anu ana ilia of early sitt settlement lement but that the good of those daims ya ims which necessity arid wise coun seft impressed upon the people should be utilized for the a vantage if cf those who work today it has haa become the fashion to believe that thai in all such enterprise aas the orie one under consideration a large amount smout it of reada read money is in essential to carty carry on the work and because of tor thin idea bonding or borrowing to la resorted to the a 0 use quence being that the enter anae la loaded down with an interest bearing debt from which escape Is almost impossible it la Js a question now whether the millard people shall bairow for abe ati work or look to their heir own resources in one view of the ease case the of money by capitalists will be an exceeding great convenience if noab log ing more the people who do me le work will got get money for wages ano workmen will be easy to fled find in this connection it may be remembered alsi that hat the laborers who work for tbt be cash under such circumstances wi wd ai be largely those who drift arlit in from other places placa and who are riot not permanently interested in atlie locality loo alty that to la one danad of working on the baab baals baslie in stion an undertaking on the ott oti off ei hand if the labor la is to t be performed ty the millard people or who sim to settle ettle there it is ig likely there will b some d in pushing the work when the pay jay to la largely in th form of water waier riger Atthe at the sometime ame time it if this method were pursued punted as it wai ls early da daia a here the result would bt br the same as thee the people who d the work would own the renal ranal anu aim would remain there as recipients of the benefits it confers if millard coulty people can get ti together gether on a do cooperative ope dative basis suo push bueb the work through iti the goon will inure to themselves li it wilt will take a mighty eft rt fur for tape tae men who would be the canal builders aou ano owners under such a method are no rion moo men but the he greater the effort the larger would be the returns anil and these would all vo sto direct to k th the people without the cream being carried off in 10 interest tor for b vioney money or in dividend to ca capital spital invested from the outside li would bea ban most moat iLter rating experiment for the foot Is to unite aud and by a strung strong pull do the he work themselves hemsel vec As a str ke of genuine home industry it woul i stand in an honored place amon almonr the me works of the be plunder of utah in which direction will tile the wisdom 0 millard countes coun tys inhabitants leau leaa them in a project ct of such great iu porta ci c 7 there ar are marly many people who are deeply lit interest ini t orest erest d t in ii t the he reply |
