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Show GOVERNMENT MAY OPEN LARGE TRACT NEAR PROVO NEXT YEAR ---------l - M I'rovo, Aug. ID. It Is reported In HJ I'rovo today that the government, Kfl through tho reclamntton service, Is H prcpating to open 14,000 acres of land H to tlio south and Bouthv.cst of Utah H lake to settlement early noxt year, H cud that th. s great area of now arid 1 land v. ill comu d.rcUly under the 1 v..trt3 from tho Strawberry project HH c'lticr through a gravity canal or HH ;.umping stations to bo established g nbng tho shoro lino of tho lake. When B 1 tho laud Is opened It will bo cut Into m M fotty-acro tracts. B This proposition could not bo taken Hl up until tho government had practl- H cnlly completed the Strawberry pro HEH Jcct as It will require part of tho wn- IM tcr from that section to bring the B'Kl hlg tract under cultivation. l As soon ns tho big dam and dike Bfujl havo been completed tho machinery H gi will bo transferred Into tho valley and H IN canals will bo constructed around the H hlllsldo as lar south as Santaquln. A H u gravity canal will bo run across lo tho H big tract west of I'ayson. H ft Plants will bo established 'nt differ- H jk ctit points on tho lako whero tho wa- Kjf tcr will bo lifted to tho highest points H In tho reserves set nsldo by tho gov- ernment under tho direction of Engl-necr, Engl-necr, P. H. Nowell twenty-ono years ago. Tho system to bo worked out by tho government Ib In many respects novel, nov-el, but has all practical features necessary nec-essary to nrako tho plnn a success. With tho establishment of power plants along Spnnlsh Fork canyon and Diamond crook tho government gets a supply of electricity which will bo used to lift water from tho lako to tho land. Already tho government has moro power thnn It can uso In tho Strawberry project and for Spanish Span-ish Fork, so has connected up Payson, Salem, and other points with Its system. |