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Show Drainage Project Attracts Nation Wide Attention Drainage Engineers Pronounce Local Project One of most Complete in Entire Country. Work has been Practically Completed. The Logan Land and Draln&ro company. Is nlnoty per cent dono In Its work of draining Richland Acres, according to tho management. All of tho main drains aro comploted, about 17M00 foct of tiles aro In, pump houses are finished read for Installing tho machinery, the Utah Power & Light company is about ready rea-dy to connect In their lines for running run-ning tho machinery, and much of tho Irrigation lmprovomonts aro In a position to bo rapidly Installed and completed. Stool head gates, turn outs and other Irrigation dovlcos have boon mado by E. W. Lundahl & Sons. In short, ono month of dry ground will enablo all tho work to bo flnlshod. No complotor Irrigation project can bo found than that on Richland Acres, It has attracted a groat deal of nttentlon in this valley, but nl-most nl-most an equal interest has been displayed dis-played In engineering and drainage centers of the country. Some of tho features of engineering engineer-ing that havo been attempted successfully suc-cessfully aro tho reasons for this Interest, In-terest, and tho further success Is going go-ing to be followed with an " even greater Interest because of Its bearing bear-ing upon future drainage In tho west. One of the machines employed employ-ed on the work has also added a great deal of Intorest In tho project. That is the Daer machine, made by a Utah man. It cut on an average of 1G00 feet per day of eight hours when tho weather allows operating at all. No other machine In tho country has dono such romarkable work and so consistently.' It has attracted men from all over the country because of Its groat performance. perfor-mance. Tho system of tile drainage p.s Installed In-stalled In Illchland Acres Is woikiug In splendid fashion. Large streams of water aro draining off tho land from the four units of construction. Although all tho work is not finished finish-ed tho drainage Is going on In thoro units that aro finished regardless of tho state of tho others. This Is tho special value of tho four unit system. sys-tem. Tho country Is not drained by ono large outlet but by four, each distinctly separato from the others. It Is this feature that commends the project so favorably to dralnago engineers. en-gineers. "What Is dralnago doing down there?" Is a frequent question asked ask-ed tho management by farmers Interested In-terested in the undertaking. Tirat, It Is taking off the surplus wator and lowering tho wator table. Fow farmers far-mers rcallzo tho value of a low water tablo In tho soli. It means an increased in-creased area for plants in which to find food; It allows roots to strlko down Into tho soil farther; It kcops the ground warmer becauso of tho absenco of standing water that fills the pores of tho soil; It allows tho air to enter tho soil; It draws off Injurious salts In tho upper portions por-tions of tho soll.i and distributes those salts olsowhoro. Second, drain-ago drain-ago Is removing wasto irrigation wator, a cause for many of tho ills of farming In Irrigated sections. Thirdly, It Is making tho district sanitary In that It removes swamps and marshes and draws off heavy rains. Fourthly, It Is making tho cost of farming much less, becauso tho ground will bo drier earlier In tho Spring which will nllow tho farmer far-mer to getiunder way with his work. This dryness will make tho roads and fields easier to cross and easier to handlo In overy way. What dralnago draln-ago Is doing could bo bo answered by pointing out what has been dono In hundreds of places throughout tho United States, and that would take too long n tlmo. This much 1b cor-taln, cor-taln, that a very great proportion of the Irrigated section of tho west will bo tllo drained In tlmo, and tho I cost of such work will be many times repaid In the Increase In quantity quan-tity and quality of tho crops raised. A very prominent sugar magnate of this stato said to tho management tho other day, "I havo been told by a number of men who havo stud-led stud-led your project carefully that you havo tho best land project In tho wholo west. If what they tell mo regarding It Is true, I agree with them." Undoubtedly this is truo becauso be-causo tho project lies In Cacho Valley Val-ley which Is tho best place in nil tho land. That fact In Itself makes tho assertion truo, but tho facts regarding re-garding tho project Itself omp'haslzo tho correctness of their judgment. The list of advantages to bo found in Illchland Acres reads like a farmer's Christmas wish rather than an actuality. Electric lights, heat and power; telephones, schools, tllo drains, splendid flowing wells, Irrigation Irri-gation water that costs 12c an ncro; meadows that inako Ideal pastures; hay land that produces wonderful crops; beet land within a mllo or so of tho factory; dairy land within an equal distance of a condensed milk factory; soil of great depth and fertility; and Logan, tho best city In Northern Utah and Southorn Idaho, I only thrco miles away, where tho Utah Agricultural College can bo reached for tho young boys and ,x girls who seek higher education. WA I In short, Illchland Acres offers all W M tho advantages of splendid farming Bl land near a largo and growing city, H and a number of tho most important I advantages of a city. B |
