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Show A WAY 10 ' .' MAKE MONEY Water Is tho good nngel thnt Is fulfilling Islah's prophecy that "The deseit shall blossom as tho rou." It Is so valuable thnt land baldly worth $." per acre Instantly assumes a Vftliio of $150 per aoio when sup. piled with this lire giving element. Tho government spends millions In boring holes through tho mountains to In Ing tho canyon streams Into the valleys, and tho farmers glady pay $S0 per acre for this oxpeuslvo vvnt. or. Fanners on the bonch pay oven moic tltMi this for vvntor that haB been stored In mountain lakes nnd then conveyed thiough expensive tunnels, syphons and canals to their farms. Yet right at homo there Is a source of supply that could probably bo sc. cured with half the cost that formers nro paying for Strnwbeiry water or that f i om tho I'rovo Hlver Reservoir Co. Tho City dug an experiment well only six feet In diameter nnd secured secur-ed over $10,000 worth of water at much less thuu half this cost. In this same locality a deep trench could bo cut ncross tho cicek bed from tho east to tho west bank, and probably t! or 8 second feet of water bo secured. Then by conveying It through a pipe Hue to a point where It would como to tho surface by mat. eiial giavlty, there would be n per. pctunl supply that would probably bo woith f i om $30,000 to $50,000. The lirlgntlon company should under take this Job, but U the city did not wish to do It, then a pilvato company could bo formed and go Into It ns n money making pioposltlon, During tho coming winter when there nie ninny idle men, It ought not to he dllllcult to get plenty of men to woik and take stock for pay Snlll. clent local capital Is available to take diio of tho other expenses and It Is finite probable that those who Invested In-vested either labor or capital would get four for ono invested. If tho ii ligation company did not wish to buy tho water thus obtained it could be sold to tho thirsty farmers on the high lands for there Is u state luv which says that anyono may place water In a channel and then take it out again either above or bo. low tho plneo where ho puts It In Thu state eiignuor will accept a filing on difcinago water obtained or to ho obtained In thlB mnnnor. so that tho people who file on It first will bo piotoctod while they go ahead and mature their pioject. |