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Show Commercials For Piute Project. Governor Spry and the state, land board are said to be planning to in vestigate the Piute projpct and if feasible renew operations to complete the canal begun some time ago. It is estimated that the project will cost in the neighborhood of 1350,000, Propositions Propo-sitions from private individuals to purchase it from the state are being considered and the comtem-plated comtem-plated visit is' to settle upon this question. The project if completed would cover about 12,000 acres of state and private lands on the west side of Gunnison Gun-nison valley alone. In order to bring this fact to the notice of these state officials, the local commercial club met on Monday evening and selected a committee to meet the company on their arrival at Gunnison and try to induce them to stop off here. If the parties who are offering to purchase are successful a further effort ef-fort will be attempted to get headquarters head-quarters established in Gunnison valley during its construction. The reclamation of this fertile body of land lyintf on the west side of Sevier Se-vier river would afford a vast number of new homes and make this valley one of the richest in Southe rn Utah. |