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Show FACTS RELATIVE I TO DRAINAGE OF CACHE LANDS I i Merrill Nlbley and A. F. Cardon H Head Company Organized to Re. il claim Valuable Agricultural M Area ' Articles of incorporation aro being j M filed In Salt Lako City by Tho Lo- H gau Land and Diulnnge Company I' M Mlth 11 capitalization of $200,000. M Tho officers of the company aro: H Merrill Nlbley, president; A. F. i H Cardon, vico president and manager; j ! H O. Clnrcnro Neslen, secretary and ' jH trensurcr; R. E. Bristol of Ogden, H and L. S. Cardon, of Logan, dlrcc 1 H Tho purpose Is to drain about 3500 ' H ncroB of land between Lognn and Little Bear rivers, to subdlvldo this ; L JH land and to soil it for agricultural H purposes, ' M Tho cost of tho project proposed is I H approximated nt $250,000 which In- ' II j H eludes cost of laud and Improvements I H Mlth possibility of moro. I M Tho location of tho Old Murphy 1 H ranch, or Wntklns placo, togothcr 1 H with Collego Farm, form principal 1 H tracts. Laud is drained by thrco H streams, Logan river, Spring crook H nnd Llttlo Bear rlvrr. Southeastern end within milo and n half of the JH sugar factory, northwestern end at .H tho Junction of Llttlo Bear- and Lo- "H gan rivers. It is watered by Spring .jM creek nnd Logan .and Blacksmith fl Fork caual', two of tho very oldest water rights In Cache Valloy. Old If 11 O. S. L. right of way to Mcndon I'H Tho entire acrcago will bo tiled. l?fl No open drains. Water will bo k9H drained Into tho rivers and creek. Ml Especial caro in way of engineering IH will bo taken to control rivers in H .flood .Umcg.ao that back, waters can H bo kept off tho land. 1 . When nsked yesterday about this -ifl project Mr, A. P. Cardon had tho I'H following to say; jH Construction work will commence ll nlmost Immediately. Experimental 1 H drains aro to bo constructed at onco. ;'i Land Is laid oft in units which will l allow tho company to placo somo on H land on tho markot this yoar. About j M two years will bo required to do all 'ijH tho work. iLJI Tho preliminary work of gottlng fljl this dralnago project Into shapo has Hil boon carried on for moro than six H months, principally through tho Car- Rl don Company. In that tlmo wo havo had englneors and exports over tho 1 property marking survoys and tests to IH dctormlno trho feasibility of our un- flH dcrtaklng. In ovcry lnstanco the H reports havo been most encouraging. :l Brown & KIcliiBchmldt of Salt Lake City woro tho engineers who detor- IPI mined tho dralnago systom, and their I al report wns most thorough in every fjl detail, especially as to contour and Icl physical condition or the soil. Mr. ii'l Brown was conncctod with tho gov- f'1 ernment in laying out several' pro- il jects In tho iitato, nnd was assoclat- l cd ln tho Hydo Park dralnago area. 1,11 Ho is well known throughout tho ImiH west and officially ln Washington. iil Mr. Klclnschmldt is similarly known. ll 'H Ho did most or tho field work for us. U H Wheelon of tho Utah Idaho Sugar XH Company, who has had charge, of tho ' jH dralnago work of that company In tho -Vl Bear river valloy, mado a careiul In- L'iifl vestlgatlon of tho land and gavo his ;jJM endorsement to tho project. Sou ox- 'JH ports, Including Dr. Widtsgo of tho jH Agricultural Collego, pronounco tho 1 area as being of exceptional strength jl and fertility, jH In vlow of theso facts, It was not M hard to obtain tho nionoy necessary fl to do tbla great work of reclamation. I,fl It. A. Hart, whom wo nil know bo- ijl cause of his work In dralnago in this KH vnltcy, says such work 'as this Is real- V ly tho second reclamation of tho dos- rfll crt, coming ns it docs, to rcscuo tho KliB land from nlkallno conditions. Our SlB project will mean, It successful, m homes for a hundred families whero V now thero aro not n halt dozen. This jB means IncroaBed farm products and JB increased wealth to tho valloy and B tho beginning of moro such work nnd fH rroater stimulus to Intonslvo farm- j Ing. LS Beet land Is now In greater de- NH roand than ovor before In tho history IjK ct tho state Every ncro or thin land can bo. inado highly productive H for beet culture As tho to'ct tvNis- fl (Continued on page four) sm Facts Relative To Drainage Of Cache. Lands (Continued From Pago Ono) try has stabilized our agricultural life, along with exceptional dolry con illtlona In this valley In particular, to tho opening up of such ureas as this ono will' serve to lncreaso the strength of our valloy as a rich agricultural ag-ricultural community. Tho famo of this, valley already stretches from boyoud tho borders of Canada into tho valleys of Mexico; and wo are especially glad, as Cacho Valloy boys, to ho able to lend our oITorts to build up that famo, and to add to Its riches. |