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Show WILL RECLAIM TRAGI1 IN WASHINGTON CO. John L. Scvy and" H." 3jF. Wallace Have Located Promising GOQ-Acrc Project Near Tfomjgr. John L. Scvy, sheepman, financier ind capitalist, whoso homo i3 in Pang-uitch, Pang-uitch, but whose operations extend to all parts of southern Utah, a in Cedar Ctyy Wednesday pvcmng pur chasing wire and camp supplies for the purpose of fencing a new GOO-acro tract of fruit land ncr Toquerville, In Washington cqunty. Associated with M.r, Soyy in the. project is II. M. Wallace of Toquervlllo, who was conspicuous con-spicuous in the oil activities at Virgin Vir-gin City a few years ago. It Is proposed to reclaim the tract with tho waters from Ash Creek, which may bo reservoired at some favorable fa-vorable point in the spring, when a large quantity of high water goes to waste each year, and held back until tho low summer period. Tho land and water has been filed on and the preliminary surveys, run for tho canal, and H la proposed to pjt the land and wator on the market at an early date. As 10 acrea of land in the Dixio country, where semi tropical fruits can bo grown, four to five cuttings of alfalfa, or a-crop" of grain and a crop of corn in tfte same season from the same land,- is a good sized farm, thla tract should support a community of from fifty to sixty families. Thin is a proposition that h3 been "lyinp out of'doon" no to spoak, ivor since the country was settled, and no ono has hitherto dibcovcred It; Which when -fully developed will mear considerable con-siderable to Washington county, be sidos a profitable investment for the ! promoters', and will supply hew homes' l fdr a number of settlers. Tho land is Bljuafed in a, little valley val-ley between Tquervje and Ledii, and. cap he'epved V nbftve stated With nt w'ner rit Ash Crq.'l-. |