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Show .BUCKHORN COMPANY APPLIES FJ3 WATER The most important water application applica-tion in many months was hied with Caleb Tanner, state engineer, this week when permission to divert water from Bull Hollow and Price river was requested by the Buckhorn Land company. com-pany. The company desires 8000 acre feet of water to irrigate 11,000 acres on the Buckhorn flat. The intention is to conserve the flood wnters'of Cedar mountains with a large reservoir. The filing f e was $152.50. the application appli-cation being made by Lloyd Sigler. general manager of the cororation. The direct source of supply .will be half a mile below the mouth of Bull Hollow. From a natural channel of I three and a half miles an artificial , channel of half a mile will bs dug. j Th;s will be a forty-four-foot canal six j feet deep. The grade will be five feet per mile. A dam will be constructed and various other improvements placed ! This application will supercede the tiling of William J. Powell, who has assigned his application. |