Show OF tfx L ater SUPPLY the irrigated lands company to begin with acquired valuable water rights and a reservoir situ site in n gooseberry valley about half way between fairview and scofield where it is possible to impound fifty thousand acre feet by ing additional dit ional high water rights are owned in the price river at the gooseberry the reservoir of concrete and earth has been completed to a point where twenty five thousand feet of water may be impounded for use during the beason u of nf 1909 it come comes down a natural channel into the price river and is taken into the canal at the point of diversion the first watering for crops is from front the high water source while the two second of the season are from the impounded reservoir water fifty thousand dollars has up to this time been spent on this reservoir and the taime will be completed to its intended original proportions when required or it is found expedient this asset is a part of the original holdings of the old mammoth reservoir company which at one time proposed to take this water over into sanpete county the canal now built and the rese voir in connection therewith are along the lin lines s attempted several year ago by ilac Macfarland mac fa rlando Vf f st george acting for price people who at that time made a failure of the deal from time to time there has been quite if not fully spent in trying to take this water one place or another line of the canal the canal of the irrigated lands company comes out of the price river at a point about half way between helper and price A diverting dam of concrete costing in the neighborhood of turns the water to the south side of the price river the canal runs in a generally southeasterly direction dire tion for twentythree twenty three miles through carbon and well into emery county on the canal line there are numerous nume numer rova ors pieces of aide side hill tunnel and flume work ork one piece of bluming and excavating having coat cost in excess of the ditch is sixteen feet wide at the bottom twenty feet at the top and carries an average depth of four and a half halt feet laterals of various various sizes and dimensions are to deitri distribute bute the water along the canal to users one tunnel just west of price 6 L three hundred feet long eight feet over overhead licad and sixteen feet in width unlike many propositions of this kind mud there is nc no dead territory along ahe canals route for land may be watered from it within the first half mile from the rivers diverting point the spanish fork construction company has had the work as contractors F R coates of boston is the consulting engineer al S darrow chief engineer and 11 B D daugherty engineer in charge in the field A R kerstetter Kera tetter is super in of construction As to water the proposition was undertaken for the purpose of extending the irrigable lands of this valley by con serving and atil utilizing izing the surplus waters of the price river the pro eject is to water acres of land X lying adjacent to the denver and rio grande railroad and the southern utah railroad now building of price to the south these lands arc are typical of the price river valley and will yield as prolifically prolific aISy tao the lands now being cultivated along the price river the water rights Contla uit on an pate 0 THE SUPPLY conclude concluded k atom rom iee page 7 aro are represented depre s by one share of stock in the price river irrigation company for each acre of land the water rights are adjudicated by decree of court and allowed by awards of the state engineer the land owners will own and control the water system after one year they will always fix their own annual maintenance and operating charges the system will be completed operated and ested for one year withof coat cost to the price river irrigation company water is now available to workingmen and others and all must be fed what better markets evist anywhere in in the country to sav sai nothing of points farther on to the east and to the west of here in all the settlements of the valey there are good schools end ond churches all of the lands soon to go under cultivation are within marketing and trading distance of price a county seat with two high schools public and methodist mission another coal camp that of miller creek is being opened to the southwest of price seventeen miles in another year several hundred men will be employed there A railroad 9 the southern utah will bring the coal and coke out and take the produce raised hereabouts in this chis railroad will be completed by next s spring p r ing and is to traver ic some of the ia lands n ds covered by this big canal the original proposition it is just two years ago that the utah irrigation and power company undertook to build what hat is locally known as the high line canal it came out of the price river at a point above the town of helper and if finished would have reclaimed fifty thousand acres twice the acreage of the present project the old company under the management of i T H fitzgerald of salt lake city 1 pent in surveys canal work water rights and reservoir sights then the panic of that year a came on and a chicago bond firm which was going in for of the com banys securities tailed failed to come through and work ork had ta to be suspended entirely later this com banys affairs were absorbed by the irrigated lands company utah capi 1 ital and a loan of from the I 1 state board of land commissioners j made it por possible sible to take the proposition out on a smaller scale the ra rc sull sult being the work A ork that was as formally completed today still more money after this f from roni the state had been expended it was found nece ne ceary sary to have an equal amount additional this waa was secured on the personal noted notes of fifteen of th ohp principal stockholders of the company and lind has been hobt economically and judiciously expended not a single dollar of the that has gone into the price project is wasted or unaccounted for say engineers contractors and management with the liquidation of the indebtedness of the company by land and water sales it is not unlikely y t the he high line proposition will be tak taken e n up and completed during the coming year or in 1910 such are the hopes of the men behind the enterprise the water and land is isheim hei e money combined with brains engineering skill and good management ought to accomplish the rest planting and plowing the promoters r 0 loters of the price project are 20 showing w ing their faith by their works as it were at this time four thousand acres a C re S of I 1 land a nd are beier a fenced and plowed and will be put pt to wheat oats alfalfa and fruit trees the coming spring this is all company land however in several instances the same is being done for or those who wo would uld prefer improvement of their holdings in this manner to giving the same their personal attention 1 eastern garden spot is price river valley write harmon iverson for illustrated literature address them at price utah POTATOES A BU PER ACRE for all crops on any of the lands under the canal land and water are sold by the company on easy lenyear payments prices depend upon location some comparisons made when it is remembered that from one end of price river valley proper to the other from costle gate to Farn farnham harn a distance of perhaps thirty miles there are not at this time over two thousand and five rive hundred acres of land under water some idea of what the reclaiming of twenty five thousand acres means to the country as well as the state adjacent to these lands and furnishing as good a market as there is in the world are the coal and railroad camps of sunn foide helper kenilworth castle gate hales scofield colton clear creek and winter quarters nil ull reached in a day by railroad or wagon at these places every month there abdiu Is now paid out in cash more than |