Show IA NEW EMPIRE TO BE OPENED UP the san rafael desert project a big thing for emery county don bobbins came up from san rafael desert on monday after having spent a week or more looking over that broa 1 stretch of rich but idle country with the view of planning for the irrigating and reclamation of the and more acres of land that H P dark and R H peale have requested the state land board to select for them from the state s government giant mr robbins gave considerable attention to san rafael muddy and dirty devil livers with the view of ascertaining the best places for dams and reservoir sites m one or more of these streams he found all of them running high with water on account of floods caused by frequent rains he also found that it would be necessary to employ the as s stance of an engineer in the making of surveys in one or two places where he was doubtful as to the best plan of the plans of dark and peale contemplate the greatest irrigation project so far conceived in utah the desert land is particularly rich and there is no better fruit land in the world while the climate is almost ideal when once water is put onto the land i section of country will be opened up or settlement that is capable of sus taming persons and more emery county not only possesses the largest area of coal land within the state but its agricultural and hor ticul tural poss bili ties are almost illimitable it is bounded on the east by the largest river in the state and besides is watered by six other big streams the price huntington cottonwood ferron san rafael and muddy rivers in at least four of these streams the volume of water is sufficient and its fall of such gravity to supply electric power to transport millions of tons daily operate hundreds of manufacturing plants and supply light and fuel to a population of a million homes emery county is pst awakening and reaching out for its own this year marks the beginning of the end of old conditions and the birth of a ti veness that nothing can impede forward is the rally cry from now on and within the next few months every train in the country will be car home seekers to this section and in a few more years emery county s fruit honey and melons will be eaten in every state in the union and in foreign countries SS well |