Show NEW LAND PROJECTS FOR EMERY COUNTY water rights filed upon for reclaiming rich desert tracts the salt lake republican has this to say concerning a part of the lahd scheme D H P dark and R H peale are engaged in promo ting in emery county mention of which has heretofore frequently appeared in the progress another b g negation nn gation project came to light with the filing with state engineer caleb tanner of a water ap for cubic feet per second of the water of muddy or curbs creek emery county the appi cation v as filed by H P chalk and R H peale of this city who are back of a proposition which aims to reclaim acres of the green river and dirty devil deserts the project calls for a big dam in I 1 honduras valley and a canal running along the slope to be carried to the deserts through a tunnel through the valley wall the length of the canal is stated m the application as 26 miles the damens ons to be 30 feet at th bot torn 45 feet on the surface and five feet in depth the soil of the deserts is a sand loam which has been shown by experiment to be efti emel fertile As to the methods of the company to be formed by the two salt lake men the appi cation did not state but it is known tt at with the canal completed the water will be sold to homestead and desert land entrants the proposition has been considered by la id experts for time and all leave said abat it would be a great sue cess once the water was on the land this now seems to be a quest on of time only and an active campaign will be started to make another prosperous farming district in a hitherto desert tract applications for water rights were also filed with the state engineer b senator john H seely of mt pleas ant who asked for the right to use the water of a spring in sinbad valley county fostock purposes |