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Show BIG BKAVISIt PKO.TECT. George A. Snow of Salt Lake and W. I. Moody of Chicago have at last untangled the snarl that has held back the Big Boaver Irrigation project for the past flvo years and have taken over the proposition. This means the expenditure of approximately $780,000 and the reelrthiatlon of 20,000 acres of land in Beaver county. What the entire proposition moans to Utah is .1 matter that runs into still larger figures. P01' somo years past the Beaver irrigation project lias boon lit' litigation, tho various parties to suite and disagreements being the -Beaver Irrigation & Power company, the Bea-er Bea-er Reservoir & Irrigation company and .1 number of individual Interests. Si ime time ago Mr. Snow and Mr. Moodv took the matter up with a h w to settling the difficulties, and after months of tireless work they have succeeued. The project contemplates the building build-ing of a reservoir that will hold 30,-000 30,-000 acre feet of water, and the con-mi con-mi uttion to main and branch canals from fifty to sixty miles In extent. The reservoir will be constructed on the Heaver river, seven miles east of Minersville. The land to be watered lies between the tracks of he Pit It Lake route and the foothills to the east of Mllford and is as fertile as any land to be found In the state. The reservoir will have a dam sixty-five feet high and will rover 1800 acres of land. Andrew Van Duinen, a Paterson, N. II J., carpenter, fell from a building on J I which ho wns at work and some one 1H ran with the news to his young bride. 1H She collapsed and died in a few hours. H Van Duicton had escaped injury except H for a slight cut on the head. H |