Show 1 IA K LARE TRA TRACT I ITO TO BE WATERED Forty-Five Forty Thousand Acres of Land Will Be Re Re- claimed LIES IN TWO COUNTIES Soil Is of Excellent Quality and Railroad Is Promised Promised Prom Prom- Allotments of at land under the Carey CarE act which will mean menn tho the reclamation of oC acres acre of or land In and Wasatch counties were made in Salt Rait Lake last week and work wok on the tho Lott ditch to cost approximately OO will bo be started before falL This project ct which Is being pushed through by F F. F II 11 Lott formerly of or Denver will open up a tract of or land between betwee n Theo Theodore ore and the junction of the tho Duchesne and Green rivers which 1 Is s regarded as the finest In tho the northeastern northeastern northeastern north north- eastern part of at Utah Mr Lott has been working on th the e project far Car r more than a year and anti It was only Wednesday afternoon of or lat las t week that the tho final allotment of ot lands land s was made mado The Tho project will begin a athe at atthe atthe st t the Duchesne river rivet two and one half miles north of oC Theodore where water and will be diverted through a 0 stono ston o and concrete lined ditch which will ex extend ox- ox tend for thirty five thirty miles In a n southeasterly southeasterly south south- easterly direction n dl to a point near the tho u Junction of at tho the Duchesne river wit with I Green river In some ome place places this ditch will be o of f costly construction as the surveys al already already al- al ready rendy completed show show- feet of tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel net two miles of ot flumes fiumes and six miles of oC solid rock work The Tho ditch will have o a capacity of cubic feet a 0 second In addition to- to tho acres of ot land under the tho Care Carey act this ditch will win supply water to a dozen or more mor homesteaders alon along the basin and contracts for this service have already al already al- al read ready been letro letro let ro To He lie J. J Soon Sunn Mr Lott Is enthusiastic over the prospects for early completion of or the project on which he has hns been working for more than thun a year The he resources of or tho the reservation country are arc practically j I call calls cally unlimited from an agricultural point of oC view he sale sala This land In its Its rough state stale comprises light lIht red r re d loam anti and moat mast of It is III covered with sage page brush buffalo buCCalo grass and cactus I I There Is no gravel ra el or sand and almost all over the tract tho the soil sol has a 0 depth of or fort forty to un fifty feet teet to bed rock This ThIH land lays laYt smooth as aft ao a floor with a a. slope of oC ab about Tut six feet Ceel to the mile which is perfect for the distribution distrIbution distribution tion of or water orator Tho Tim Uinta range Tano on the north with an altitude o of or 1400 root feet furnished perfect protection and tho the altitude of tho the farming land at 1800 1600 to feet makes snakes it particularly adapted to the production of or a apples Parts arts of oC the tract aro are suited to to- peaches and the land for grain alfalfa and sugar Hugar hElots beets Is III as good as ag an any In Utah Tho The climate is about the same as ns Salt SaH Lake Iak excepting that the winters are ute col colder This tract lies In the bend of or the river and the tho route of oC the Moffat railroad will he be through a part of the tract while a branch lino line to tn the thA richest t Gilsonite fields In the he world will also traverse another part of oC the land under the Tott Lott ditch There mo may bo be some mo who ho aro are In doubt about the earl early completion of the Moffat road but hut itIs ItIs It Itis is coining sure as fato fate for the country in that district of or Utah Ulah is IN too rich toI to I I allow any prospective railroad to fall rail i Much Illch Dr Dry In Lend d I There are aro better han ban acres In the Duchesne basin fit e to come como under un under un- un der ler Irrigation The Tho DI Diy Di y Gulch Irrigation Irrigation gation system north of ot Myton Iton Iy ton ha has 36 acres and the project Is in fate fair Ca r i shape ane and already watering a large lane tract with excellent prospects that the entire tract will be watered next year car rhen Then there Is the upper and lower Blue Bench project north of oC Theodore which will come comp under irrigation On the tho bench w west st of or Theodore ore I Ls is another tract soon to be cultivated and south of oC Vernal In what Is n kurn as the tho Colorado Colora o Park country countr thorn thoro are tho the In Independence Ran anti and Moffat districts which will soon add their considerable pro production to tho the crops crop of oC eastern Utah This basin h IK ix sixty miles tulles lon long and an average a of or thirty miles wide and almost ever every acre aero Is prospective farm farm- ing land lasted that will bo be worth an acre the day the railroad Is opened u up From cloven cleven years' years experience in deal dea deal dealing ing an and improving western lands I I belle c the Duchesne basin will prove proven e n as fine agricultural as and fruit growing s land aa as can be found anywhere In the tho 1 United States te |