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Show BIG ENTERPRISE UNDER CAREY CAR-EY ACT. i New Company Proposes to Put 300,- j 000 Acres in Emery County Under Water. UNDERTAKING IS FINANCED. Land Said To Be Adapted To Fruit Raising. " Articles of incorporation have been filed in the office of the county clerk, Salt Lake County, covering the largest lar-gest irrigation project ever undertaken under-taken in this country except by the federal government. The 'corporation 'corpora-tion is the Green River Valley Land & Water Company, with hcadquartcs in Salt Lake City. The project is to irrigate and improve, under the Carey act, 300,000 acnes of land in Emery county. The capitalization of the company is fixed at $1,400,000, divided into 1,400,000 shares of the par value of $1 each. Of this stock 400,000 shares arc to remain in the treasury, and the balance is fully paid up to moct the requirements of property and water rights. I Officers of the company arc: R. IT. I P-calc, president; Charles E. Fuller, vice president; II. P. Clark, treasurer; I Lloyd Siglcr, secretary, and these, with W. IT. Nutting, E. R. Willctts and J. E. Noble, constitute the directorate. direc-torate. Mr. Pealc recently removed from San Francisco .to Salt Lake City, and is now making this city his permanent home. Mr. Fuller is a Kansas City capitalist. The other directors di-rectors arc Utah men. The cost of the reservoir, the dams, canals and other works planned for this project will reach $863,500. This will be the cost of irrigating the first 127,000 acres of the tract. The main reservoir is near the headwaters of Cottonwood creek, in the Lower Joe valley, and this reservoir will have a ' capacity of 100,000 acre feet. The main dam i to be 205 feet high and j 700 feet long. The main canRl wtll lie forty miles long. It will be thirty five feet wide at the bottom and have a water depth of 'eight feet. Preliminary Prelimi-nary work was started more than a year ago under the personal supervision super-vision of Engineer A. A. Clark. This reservoir is intended to augment the (low of the San Rafael river, the prin-. cipal source of water for the irrigation irriga-tion of the land. Selections of land for this project will he made next Monday under the provisions of the Carey act. The land j is of the sam gencal character as 1 that at the Green River, Utah, and 1 Palisade, Colo. It is said to be ad- ! mirably adapted to fruit growing. The tract will foe discctcd by the branch of the Rio Grande Western, to b-c constructed from the present main line to Salina, thus affording good shipping facilities. In addition to the development and improvement of the land, it is proposed pro-posed by the Green River Valley Land & Water company to develop electrical energy in considerable quantity, quan-tity, to be used for electric railways, pumping plants and other purpose in that part of Utah. 0 |