Show STATE TO BUILD RESERVOIR Serve Surveys Y s b by Y State En Engineer U lacer Demonstrate Plan is Feasible ACTIVE WORK NEXT SPRING Con Construction U Will iII Commence Following Follow Pullo ln in ing Spring Floods Reclaim Much I uch Lund Land State Engineer Catch Caleb Tanner has returned ned from tt where with members of the thc tate stale land board he helias has lias been keen gathering Information lookIng look look- Ing to the construction o of oC a reservoir at Hatch county to provide water for certain lands in the vicinity of Panguitch Surveys have havo been made malIc for fOI the dam clam tho tha reservoir and canals to cover about acres of or land tho purpose being to eventually e extend nd those these coasts canals to reclaim about acres Th The Tho water to tu be used In the re reclamation reclamation re- re of oC thelo arid lands land will be diverted ert d from the Sevier river the reservoir to bo to In bo of or feet acre capacity An earthen dam glum 65 C feet hl high h will be constructed aboul cubic yards of oC earth to tobe tobe tobe be used Canals a aggregating fifteen miles In length and with a carrying capacity of 1 5 to 10 1 cubic feet per second t will wm Ill be constructed in connection connection tion Ifon with the thc reservoir and dent dam State Can Cun Soil Sell Active e work worl o of or con construction on the proposed Irrigation system will probably probably ably not be begun until after the thc spring Hoods floods hut hot as ns stated staled above the surveys have been bean made already The state tate land board looks with favor favol upon the he proposition to build the reservoir mid and dam and has about decided to use x t part o of the public funds to to t carry carryout carry out tut the tho project With the irrigation system established it Il will be possible for or the state slate to dispose o of oC tho of oC land that are arc now practically worthless and get het ct back the tho mone money expended ex ex- ended In tho rho construction of or the rho reservoir dam and canals It Is not the purpose of oC tho the state stale hoard board to make m lIe money b by the project but tut merely to tt obtain from the chasers o of oC the land tho rho price of oP the theland theland theand land and as ns it stands at present plus pius the cost oat ost of the Irrigation system that the I tate puts In |