Emery County Progress | 1908-03-07 | Page 1 | Buckhorn Flat Land Taken Up

BUCKHORN FLAT I 1 TAKEN UP buckhorn Bue khorn flat one of the abst tracts of land lying under the sun is rap adly being taken up by prospective farmers under the desert act huntington par ties were the first to select land there and Cast ledale and desert lake people have quickly followed suit the hun hington people have counte surveyor dave woods at voik surveying a d from the south bench of the cleveland car al and estimates of the cos of build ing a wooden flume from the point of division to and across the swale to buk horn flat across the swale 13 from a mile to a mile and a quarter an i the expense of material and constructing a flume will be considerable it will be cheaper than an iron p pe however and as the timber can be obtained at home and the land locators can do the work themselves all of wh ch will apply as necessary work to be done toward proving up on their entries it will be money and labor well spent and return them many fold