| Show or BRIS 1 I dint ACROSS 1111 KLIN KLI N 1 IN john T pope li tv him tin tile MU and behind the P inal 11 to make take it go copt in lit lie of SIX mil illion of dollar bouer amr atu july 17 one of the tile biggest irrigation and power powe r projects evor ever undertaken in this state will be launched within the tile next week or two in uintah county the proposed project will bring under cultivation ti about four hundred thousand acres of the most fertile land in the uintah district and incidentally tall provide for the operation of at an immense power plant the plane plans provide for the building of at ii it tour four hundred foet feat high dam across the oreen river about seven miles north of jensen in a direct lino line or about twelve miles by aagon road the greater part elf c the land lana to be irrigated la Is on the tile east bide side of at the green river running east to the colorado line but it la Is the In tenon of the company to build a cant on the vest aide side also to convel tho the water to the ouray countr the project has been worked up and capital obtained ba b john T pope of vernal pope accompanied by F IV short of chicago who represents the eastern capitalists in te rested in the project are here to I 1 look ook after some of the details of the business it Is 13 estimated that the cost of the undertaking will be about in addition to the irrigation project and the building of an immense electric power plant the development of coal and other rat mineral lands in the reservation will be undertaken |
