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Show FARMERS WILL FIGHT TO SAVE THEIR LAND I Provo, Feb. 2. Will Undo Sam , bo compelled to moot an injunction i suit or to provldo drainago for tho J seepage water of tho Strawborry project? This quostlon will havo to bo answered by thu Interior depart- i inent within tho noxt fow weeks or tho Utah Lnko Association wl'l bring ' proceedings to prevent tho head-gates head-gates being lifted at tho oust portal ot tho Struwborry project. At tho present tlmo tho landowners mound tho lako say they aro lighting light-ing desperatoly to save their farms from completo Inundation and them-solves them-solves from financial ruin. Already tho lako Is Bovoral Inches nbovo compromise com-promise point and thousands ot acres ot land aro under wutor. A wot bluing would raise tho lako sovernl Inches more, It Is feared, und Vino engineers cstlmato that tho soepago waters from tho Strawberry projojt ' will in thu courso of a year add from ten to eighteen Inches of wntor to tho depth of tho lako. This thoy say would mean tho flooding of land In somo sections moro than a mllo from tho banks of tho lako, and they nl-lego nl-lego Unit oven in tho west part of Provo orchards wilt bo damat,eil thru iho rise in wntor. For a long tlmo tho farmers llvln'? around tho lako havo been flghtlm? to- piopor drnlnngo at tho Jordan narrows, but tholr success hns been ilmltod, and unless action Is taken to drain olT tho seepago water from tho lands Irrlgntod by Strawborry water, Utah county farmers will not bo "bio to farm thousands of ncros of land no wunder cultivation, It In said. ' |
