Show STATE TO BUILD IRRIGATION CANAL GANAL Land Commissioners Favor Hatchtown Reservoir Project ENGINEER TO INVESTIGATE With Uh Favorable Fn Report From Him Ilium Options Will ill Il lie Bc Taken Up mid oik m Storied Started Tf If the tho report of oC time tito state en engineer ln Pf proves that tho the undertaking a s 9 ff feasible feasible a ible i. i ble the state boa board reI of nf land commissioners commis commis- sinners will vill some time lime this year begin begin be he gin the cnn construction of a reservoir in Garfield count county on the site Rite of theold theold the theold old Hatchtown Ies reservoir according to tf the action taken at a C meeting of or the board held helel yesterday The Tb matter mme oame up on the tho Pet petition lIllo it ion of a number of or land band owners o nf of that section r who a asked that the tho old r reservoir reser I voir which had hail been n washed out wh while ile i in mm course of construction construct ion I In mm I 1903 be reconstructed by bv 01 time the state under such terms term and conditions a as could be bo he best t and end legally done The lime board has hus ham hail the Limo matter under consideration some da lays days s 's and a committee com COlli of or Its members consisting o of W. W J J. J Lynch W W. H. H Thain W Y D U Candland and H. H N. N Hayes HayeR made a trip of or Inspection to Garfield county for Cor the purpose of determining the tho action tl desired was Cea feasible ibl anti and to learn Just how ho the state could tik tal h hold ld of or time the project At the meeting of or tho limo board yester yester- cia tiny day J 3 J. J II Fullmer ane and Thomas Sevy l' l loprE representing the time Upper Soviet Sevier Iel Reservoir Reser r. r veil voir Irrigation Fish Stock Stoel company compan presented lr the matter mattel In person anti am asked that the time hoard board take formal ac 1 ac- ac tI thom tion S Would Advance AcI State Laud Land As contemplated now the construe construction tion of time the reservoir will wili necessitate the buying of tO G-tO acres acre of ground the site sHe of or the re reservoir but it will re reclaim reclaim rl re- claim about acres of state land lam which the board would select By Dy getting gelling water on the land It would be worth not less than 15 an acre which would not only repay the thc state stale for rol It Its expenditure but leave a goo good margin margin mar mm gin of or profit It would cost so far as the members mem mern- bers have determined approximately ty to fO o construct tho the rt reservoir while the cost ost o of the reservoir site would be he about more 0 IC The land owners 1111 in imm that section started building a n reservoir at hatchtown Hatchtown Hatch Hatch- town about eighteen miles milts southeast of Panguitch in 1903 th the dam chain of which was tas about feet long thirty-five thirty feet t high and about loo mu feet feN thick at the tile base bae In building the wall ali for fOl the time retention of or the water vater In Inthe inthe the reservoir u II the IIII overflow has imas not been considered d and anti no spillway was constructed Time The consequence was vas that while being built ane and during a hi tm h wind Vind storm the water vater washed over oven the tho embankment ment washing it away anti and gradually destroying time the timework work done dOlle Since then the time land oWn- oWn ert rs have done OIW nothing further In th tho matter mattei owing to lo lack of run funds s In a addition to the acres aCles that could be selected by the land band board bOfil the land owners possess about 1000 acres al additional on which the board has taken an option at a t cost of which includes sites buildIngs build build- Ings all water rights of or tin till land own- own eJ era ems the time embankment and all improve ments S SI I If f how however ver the state tnt does tI'S not purchase pur chase chaRt that land band the time possessors sors of or It have an aim option on I 1 2 1 per edit cent of the tue water watt I of ot time the 1 reservoir 1 to be bl used cl for rOl Irrigating their in land mid Take fule Option on Land Th The state tate land board hoarel ha has signed a conditional agreement with Fullmer and Sevy for fOI the time land owners by hy the terms lerms of or which they timey have tu-cem tu a six months months' option on oum their theil land and nil all land and water vater rights The Tho matter mailer has imas been referred to time tho state engineer with Instructions Instruct to give the tIme board full and complete In Information Information In- In formation on at the earliest possible moment moment mo mo- ment and his report will decide whether the state will viii exercise the thc option and start the time work worl If it does It Is calculated to have the reservoir finished some time this fall The board also consummated the largest land deal In its history yesterday yesterday yester ester esterday day when It sold worth of or orland land in Wasatch county to a local man manI manat manat I at the thu rate rale of an acre aero for Cor land which had been heM held heretofore at only an acre The rime board will w go to Rich filch county count In Ina Ina ina a few fey days for the purpose of looking over land there therewith with the view of es establishing establishing es- es s 's another reservoir |