Show WATER DOES ABB m f mm m m m TO THE Percolation Theory Ignored by Authorities of the State IRRIGATE LARGE TRACT Beaver Creek Will Be Used to Augment Flow of Canal Canals State Engineer Caleb Tanner lanner yesterday yesterday yester ester esterday day approved the water applications application of ot J. J C. C Armstrong a local mining an ancl and cl electrical engin engineer er for or five eighty oct feet per second of the waters of Dr Dry Fork Forie of Ashly creek creel and o of Bear Deal creek tim tim- to ta county The applications have been th the subject subject sub sub- J ct of serious protests from tho the irrigation irrigation 1111 gation gatton companies and ranchers of or Uina Uin- Uin ta a county but were sustained by tho the slate state engineer on tho grounds rounds of un un- appropriated water Tho The eighty second feet of or Dl Dry fork tork comprising the tho normal flow of at the stream disappear at a point called tho sink and so far tal a ag lJ known never appear again As ts the channel of tho stream continues though without water after tho sink the applicant proposes to carry the water around the I SInk fink Ink by a flume and drop it into its natural channel to A. A Ashly creek and to the point of or use near the elt city of Vernal Tho tract of or land to tobe tobe tobe be irrigated comprises OOOO acres for tor which at present there Is no water The rho water appropriated from Beaver Denvel flea Den from Its ver vel creek creele will be taken source a D. spring high up In tho tin tin- ta tn mountains and carried over 01 a low divide e and anti emptied Into Dry creek to increase its flow how With Mr Armstrong are John Jonn E. E Austin Frank W. W Irwin of Bingham I and H. H E EL Benedict of ot tho forest SIV I ice An Irrigation and land company to handle the water and land will be formal d S S I |