Show irrigation PROJECTS new company organized at ba moab and another to be he organized at and fountain Fouat aia green A company was organized organic d at moab last saturday to promote an ir ignation project which will place under cultivation acres of the finest tural tura and fruit land in the state this the preliminary survey haa has been made madle and within a few afew days application will be filed in the state engineers office to the altire winter now flow of water in la sal creek sanjuan san juan county the water will be used to irrigate tract tracts of land iving from eighteen to twenty five miles south of moab the land to be reclaimed lies around the nipples the looking glass and flat iron country just beyond cana cane spring this land is a rich sandy loam similar to the fine fruit land of moab and the climate of that section is very vert similar to tha of moab the men in charge of the echeme scheme propose to store the water in rattlesnake ilat flat the preliminary survey blows that a dam 75 feet high will store sufficient water to irrigate 20 a rea there Is an abundance of water in the creek to fill the reservoir the personal of the company speaks I 1 peak much for the outcome of the except W E sheldon and 11 11 pros pres ton a couple of civil engineers who have had charge of the surveying on the spanish valley project none but local men are connected with the enterprise WEALTHY MEN interested J T at cuningham cunningham and T B carpenter of the firm of J at cunningham C of li sal utah are members mo Tiber of the company these men ara wealthy stockman stockmen stoc stor kmen having large cattle and sheep I 1 interests in san juan county and on the hoak mountains in grand county they own an immense ranch with in tavo miles of the proposed reservoir D M U cooper and V P martin of the mercantile mercal merc attile tile institution there and connected with several land and cattle enterprises s in that and san juan county art are aleo also connected with tho the project the other four members of the sew new company are R C clack and J 11 dark clark well known mining roan man and dr J W williams and G P bryan of the williams druz drug company the complete survey for the spanish valley land company has been made and officers of th the company ale ai expected in moab within a month to start work on the construction of their reservoir this company expects to acres of land within about six in miles lies of moab |