Show quakers meet fortune in utah from the tiles of the utah ciali writers ers project among the lew few outside groups which sought tolerance and bubala tence in ili the high walled ival leya ot of utah the quaker co colony lony ot of 1803 was perhaps most um unfortunate fortunate this group composed ot of more than one hundred persons settled atshan lake in millard county in 1893 and immediately laid plans piano for mass production 0 of tann farn products the group was plentifully supplied with money and the leader C W Is reported to have spent more than one million dollars in improving the settlement tl the first enterprise was the erection 0 of swan lake reservoir an immense project which covered more than acres acrea tho the company also secured some acres ot of farm landane lan land dand and befanto ganto be began to grow alfalfa on logo lage scale more than fourteen miles ot of leveo levee was also ed to hold the water for or tho land tats itala immediately thriving community became cnown as ingersoll and soon boasted a regular post poat of ice everything had worked out as ag planned and the future looked bright in the colony when without warning the dam burst despite heroic exhorts a to stem tho the break the farms were blooded and the town completely ruined in 1005 following the flood an and d the failure or of subsequent attempts to ralso raise capital for rebuilding the tenants became discouraged and letl left some few started a settlement tit at clear lake but even this proved a long tragic struggle and this site alte was bold to the state in 1938 to serve as a bird refuge today no house or tense marks the site of ingersoll the lake la Is dry tho the land la Is baked by drouth and sun and tor for all visual evidence tho legion might never have been peopled at all an all increase of 0 82 per cent over the pro previous year in ili the lie amount of at electricity delivered to consumers is shown in a U S department of at agri agil cultural statistical report or of REA financed power systems sy tor for the fiscal ascal year ending juno june 30 1941 |