Show ISTLE ISTL o hillry 0 us S SEIS IT fraud bunds lon boosters be coine lufte interested rested LANDS THE equal OF THOSE ABOUT PALISADE e reports from the castle vail valley e antry in th the depths of the wasatch mountains where the utah irnia sn arid wid power company is is con ing its mammoth reservoir naser voir ret tedie lea ate t e that the work will be antly completed by april 1st ast that afy afy fifteen thousand acres of land tear ear price can be watered says the grand drand junction colo news this large br area of arable land lying south rf d fries price and east cast of Welling toti will be k converted from prat practically valueless onazin tn abing azin land to 10 tillable soil with a value of one hundred dollars an acre several local men are inter d in the land which is to be arri dinits t ed d and in all probably fifty resi Ls of grand valley have holdings mahat in that country that will be bene buted by the canal the utah irrigation and power tom company pany of which D M landreth is the vice president and general man aser agern has as in course of construe cons construction trux lion a mammoth reservoir located local d at the top of the wasatch range and t renty enty five miles northwest of price which when completed will contain enough water to irrigate fifty thousand acres A large canal from this reservoir is being dug in the course of chatis what is krumn as the gooseby gooseberry rry canyon to price river into which the water diverted at a point copt a above helper the water r ri diverted out of the river and P through another large canal to the tend land to be watered 4 I 1 it t is said saia that the land is of about abou the same formation as that on or chard mesa and it will be easily seen that this will mean u much for the develop ilent of castern utah the reservoir will have an average depth of sixty five feet when complete but it hp is 1 intended to make it forty feet this month after which the entire force of men will be placed on the big ditch and by the first of april the canal will vill be ready for the water the company reLent recently ly sold bonds for three hundred thou thousand gand dollars to complete the work and there is is no doubt but that the project will be in actual operation in the spring the canal is about bout thirty miles I 1 long ong fully two hundred and fifty men and d a large number of teams are employed on the ditch and reservoir R D M landreth abo is the managing spirit of the enterprise is well known in this valley having once resided near palisade and moving to river became interested in the green river irrigation project and is now a resident reside r of the mormon metropolis although io e still has large inkiest in kiest in palisade fruit ranches there will be a heavy emigration to 11 alse c se lands in the spring when it m offered for sale by the present holders sum prota projects as thais re for the great opening open ingot of the west and the materialization of its unlimited resources among those interested retted in the land arc are lyons scott welsh walk rr fraud haid M magill abgill |