Show FIVE MILLION TO BE THER lookin looking 9 exceptionally exceptional ay good for green river iver now BIGGEST irrigation DEAL IN STATE TAKING SHAPE another immense irrigation project in the green river country has been launched the state land board thursday granted the application of the green river irrigation company for the temporary segregation of upwards of one hundred and sixty five thousand acres of and lands on either side of the green river in grand county X the company propose to water by building a diverting dam twenty or thirty miles up the green river from its first upper acreage and carrying the water by gravity ditches and flumes down either side I 1 of the stream to the land As the pipeline on the west est will ros rosc the san rafael river rier and at the crossing cro saing point a purn pumping ping plant will be erected to irrigate land that otherwise nei never er would be reclaimed it is contended thi tha company pr opuses to spend something like five million dollars to put water on the land it is asserted twenty thousand dollars of which already has been expended in making preliminary surveys and the like and at this time there are several engineers in the field the company under the withdrawal agreement entered in ln j thursday must appear before the land board every three and show what progress is being made in the su surveys r byg |