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Show BELIEVE IRRIGATION AT VERNAL IS TO BE PUSHED Salt Lake City, June 22. What Is taken to be evidence of tho serious Intent of promoters of the Green river Irrigation project in Uintah county Is seen In the buildings of worklngmen s camps In various parts of the section, where capital and engineering skill aro destined to make rich farms of thousands of acres of land now arid, according to C. C. Inman of Vernal, who Is at the Cullen hotel. Vernal citizens nre much Interested In the enterprise, which has been planned some time. A small force of men have been nt work at tho base of 1'ic pioject, cast of Vernal, on tho Green river, Just below Split mountain, moun-tain, but with tho erection of work camps tesldents of that section hall what bodes a realization of tho enterprise. enter-prise. Under tentative plans for the Irrigation Irri-gation of western Uintah county by utilizing the wnters of tho Green river, ditches will make from 3C0.000 to 500,000 acres of what Is well-nigh useless use-less land bear profitable crops. Tho region thus to be reclaimed lies between Cliff creek nnd Raven ridge, sometimes called Dead Man's bench, on the north, and tho White river on the south. This section encompasses en-compasses a great stretch of country between the Green river and the Colorado Col-orado line. Preliminary surveys have been made, It Is stated, of territory affected by the proposed project . At tho 6lto of the dam on tho Green river, Just below the mountain, a score of men are at work on the camp sites. That It Is the Intention of projectors of the enterprise to make this force larger and engage in more definite and determined de-termined activity Is the strong belie' In Vernal. |