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Show M ' ' ii - ' "i" M lM , j 'i ' .if Price River Project, Fully Planned BiB IH Tlio Truuno of Mnroh 20th carried H an nrtlelo on work IicIdk dono on tlio H I'rlce Itlvor Project In which a nuin- Bf bar of locnl people nro Interested. In IB part thoy said: fl C. J. Ulrloli, assistant Blnto engl- jfll ncor, concluded today tlio (diocklni; Dk up ot tlio wntor nllottncnU for tlio UK survey of tlio Prlco rlvor wator pro- Iflj Joet, which includes moro than 30,000 H acres ot land nnd tlio rohulldlng ot BJ tlio Mammoth dam at a coat' of JlfiO,- Ifl IB W. W. Jones, engineer for tlio pro- In Jcct, flttltcd today thnt nil details IBS would bo complotod this week and H ready for publication. BJB llioro Is approximately - eighty tBj second-feel of running wator In tlio BHJ Prlco rlvor. distributed among tlio JBJ following owners: Tlio Farnum ditch, Bl Snider ditch, Tldwoll ditch, Welling- Bh ton Canal company, Prlco Water com- BH pany, Plonoor dltchos No. 1 nnd 2, BB Guy ditch, Sprlnlon Canal company, Stowol ditch, Prntt-Kwoll ditch, BS Dryned ditch, Drynor-l'Iatt ditch nnd BM Carbon Land, Water O. Power com- BH puny. BW The contemplated johulidlnK ot the BH Mammoth dam, vTlitch wns located on Ooosoliorry crook. Just above Scho-Held, Scho-Held, recalls tho washing nway by tlio Hood waters of tlio concrete core of thla dnm on July 7, 1U17, and tho havoc wrought by tlio twenty-foot wnll of wntor, whjch forced its way through tho Prlco canyon, changing the course of tho stream In some places, washing nway n numbor of Iioiiboh at Castlcgato nnd Helper mid Inundating a numbor of ndjacont fnrms. Many persons barely cBcnped death In tho torrent, but only ono wns drowned. Miss Hattlo Peacock of Prlco. Tlio project, when prgnnlzod, will bo known as tho Prlco rlvor Irrigation district. I |
