Show STEEL TRUST iusi MAY IRRIGATE LANDS Launch Scheme to Divert River Rivel Over a Large Tract O Ogden JUliO Juno 1 17 The i-The The first step to toward towar toward to- to war ward the promulgation of oC the huge irrigation of which mention as was ma made e in lii in the o columns some months ago was completed toda today when Willard Young time the Salt Lul Luke Lake c civil engineer Ic I Kurt Kurtz and amid gar Ear ly Iy financial representatives of oC time the steel trust an and amid their thell engineers corn com their first tion an and SUl C survey of Weber canyon and d debel I Weber ebel river The Time purpose of uC the project Is to tu construct con colt a series of reservoirs an and canals I to Water ater vast ast tracts of dry land in Weber Morgan and amI Davis counties I l Kurtz an and amid Early it i is un understood will viii spend about about- 1 in I 11 a 1 I worl e tic C h 1 imir Il 1 ft I rA ut oe the UIO projects ever launched In Utah Plan is Feasible The scheme is entirely feasible according accordIng according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the thc best beet information which the tue engineers have thus far tar been able to tu obtain Weber county will be benefited bone bene to 0 a Li largo large extent through the time bull building of tins this system of irrigation HUll Hundreds l' l s of acres of land lying southeast southeast south south- ea east t o of Ogden and arid along the mountain moun- moun tam ain tain line as far fal north as Brigham Cit City will m be he watered It is the Intention of the financiers to o maintain a number of dams damns along the he Weber river large enough to hold back bacic vast quantities of oC W wa that annually annually annually annu annu- ally pour hour into the lake lale Dy By a proper it Is hold held that a a. supply of water can carm be e directed over O the country that will convert whole see see- of waste A into valuable I I ral lan lands s |