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Show To Pump Water. H After thoroughly considering H ' the feasability of pumping water Bt from Utah Lake to the Lehi fields Hf I for irrigation purposes, the Com !B1 ' mercinl Club instructed its Irrigd lion Committee, through Jay. H. . Gardner, chairman, to file on a h ( stated number of second feet of Bjf the surplus water in the hike Bs The filing has been made and a Ba , meeting of the farmers called for BV next Saturday evening to discuss Bh the plat). Bk The first cost of the plant and BV nil pipes necessary would be BS about $20.00 per acre for the land BB to be irrigated. Two or three BV dollars per acre would, it has BY been estimated, be ' sufficient to BB operate the plant each year. H ' No doubt Salt Lake County H will raise legal objections to the BB1 procedure above mentioned; but BBl it is difficult to conceive of a BBr 'court's granting a permanent in- BB' junction stopping the project, BBJ when the Salt. Lake supply is not BBf to be lessened. The plan is to BBJ utilize said waters as have never BBj been in use either by the Salt BBj Lake or any other people, and BBj ' make it do service in irrigating BBj the soil. BBb The country must be built up BjBH by every proper means, and when K f surplus! water can be made to Bi quench the thirst of the thy aoii K'j making it productive, nothing BBV -"i- sbtiuld stand in the way of its be- BBVi 'f ing done. 1 f The plan is no doubt feasable. Bj I The water is lying idle. The BBV machinery will not cost suflicient BBV? to discourage the proposition as a H business venture, Cheap power Vf can be supplied, Bu It is to be hoped that the farm- BBV era will give their moral support BVM; to this movement to supply BBB'' sufficient water for the fields. H . Once accomplished the product- BBV iveness of the soll'will be increased BBB a third and the harvest made B practically sure. BBBj- Lehi will have taken a step BBB) forward and placed herself in a BBV position for future growth when BBBj the supply of water is sufficiently BBBJ increased. |