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Show FIVE MILLION TO BE SPENT THERE Another immense irrigation project in the Green River country has been launched. The state land board has granted the application of the Green River Irrigation company for the tem porary segregation of upwards of one hundred and sixty-five thousand acres of arid lands on either side of the Green river in Grind and Emery counties. The company proposes to obtain 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 of the stream to the land. As the pipeline on the west will cross the San Rafael river and at the crossing point a pumping plant will be erected to irrigate land that otherwise never would be reclaimed, it is contended. con-tended. The company proposes to spend something some-thing 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 a id the like, and at this time there are several engineers in the field. The company, under the withdrawal agreement entered into, must appear before the land board every three ' months and show what progress is being be-ing made in the surveys. Huntington Co-op will advance you i money on your alfalfa seed, little or much. |