Show INTEREST IN SWAMP SWAMPLAND LAND LANDi x I Eastern Capitalists Have Scheme L to Bring Gr Great at Sanpete Swamp Under Cultivation t n Webb Greene the tho Salt T Lake City real estate man who is promoting the I project of draining the tho swamp west I of this QI city y arrived in Ephraim Monday Mon Mon- Monday day and arranged to meet with Ion 1 l local cai owners owners of the tho swamp land Thursday I Ie e evening ening The meeting will be hol hold I at the cit city hall be beginning at 8 p. p m m. m i and as this is a a. matter of much importance im irn I to the city and the county i it is probable that hat all aU the men who i are are re interested sted in the land will attend the the thc meeting I HI am in touch with eastern capitalists capitalists capi- capi who express a desire to invest a quarter of a million dollars dollars' in any Iniga Irrigation ion or drainage proposition in in which they can expect a return front from their investment said Mr 11 Green I think this swamp laud bind d o offers offers ers an excellent opportunity and we are are ready to begin work on the tha u undertaking ng within sixty days day after the the e farmers fall in line Several Sev ral Milwaukee capitalists are interested in the undertaking au and will erect erect a a. sugar factory if they thoy can an secure a a favorable outlay fh Their ir plan is to purchase a large section of the land outright so that they will be sure of a a sufficient ac acreage of beets toto to toto toto to keep their their factory in operation every season Then Then there are also m many larmeN farm farm- era eN at K Kalamazoo who will come hero a and d eug engage ge in the celery The Tho soil soi is ia said to be well adapted to celery elery growing And I am also alm in touch with m i tiny ny ly G irna i t c e who have expressed a willingness to S. S come Q here herd and engage in iii agricultural u if t i w i 4 h hIr Mr Ir Green is accompanied b by two l representatives t of or the eastern c capit- capit They have haye been in this county coun ty ry nearly two weeks and have be been u meeting many of the swamp land laud owners owner They held a public meeting a. a as Manti last T fue Tuesday d y evening Another An other party of or eastern capitalists capitalist t is iJ ox oLed to tu all arrive alle e hero next Sunda Sunday y yI ill Mr I Greene lian bewail began work on tho pro pro- last Jul July Jul- when he brou brought ht with him an au engineer who ma made a inary survey of tile the land to ascertain if the swamp s could bo be drained The en cu the pan plan fea ahl At too tu j sug e J i ion l of the an another ther survey was wad made a sh u art t time ago an and the plan tho the t of both the engineer and I th c pit a-pit lt 1 The pl plait c contemplates contemplate the dr drain drain- inI in- in in lug of the tho swamp into the G Gunnison mini son I reservoir reser Allowance war WAI ma made t for I raising the dam of at the reservoir an additional five feet and this will willi i leave a twenty foot foot fall fail for tor draining I the swamp The company proposes to construct a deep dop canal anal from the reservoir to I ho the island inland west vest of this place but it may be that two canals canal canalI I I i will be he necessary one necessary one one on either side ot of tho the swamp This Thi will ilI be determined ted ed by hy the engineer I j We We will begin work ork on the tho canal w within thin sixty da days s 's af after er we have sec ir- ir I cd eJ an all option on the land said laid Mr Greener Greene If po possible sible we will drain rain tie the land this fall 10 so that It eau caa be farmed next summer |