Show A GREATER MILLARD 5 COUNTY down own in millard county at a near riverside on the san pedro los A angeles and salt lake railroad there is bei being ng constructed ted by the oasis DR gaud and irrigation company and the mel ville Irrigation company one of the largest diverting dams dam in the state of utah thi chis s dam is part of the largest irrigation s system stem in in the state and is supplied iti di erectly by the meaer waters s stored in the sevier reservoir located in juab and san pete counties and having 11 1 a capacity of acre feet beet the waters diverted at the riverside dam will serve the arid lands lying in the pah van fc valley of which acres have been recently withdrawn from entry at the united states laud office in salt lake in in ac r WU wa ar a 11 r I 1 am cordah with ahti an application 11 made brider he carey act by the oasis land and irrigation cappany Cop Copa 1 I pany lt it will also serve abo about ut acres v A 1 been located under t he the 4 01 desert to f 1 t v 1 and homestead acts by the mem bers bafs of the melville irrigation company it is expected that j talk the department of the interior will takee action on the application tio n made by the oasis land and i 1 lp binl inamay r when a drawing willi willibe be held hela and thi d q open for entry in h a accordance W with i ii bah 1 the b batey act V vt fM lillard illard county has the largest i t y tra tract c t of arable land in the state stat e ii athas a deep villia alluvial rial soil form ed by a delta deposit of the ae vier evier river which has the lar largest 9 est drai drainage nacre 0 area of any river iver in utah the latent poss i bili ties of this territory are ard beginning M cr to attract the fhe engineer capitalist and and home bome seeker I 1 in u addition to having a rich and e exhaustless haust less soil this valla valley ey has ideal conditions for irrigation and drainage the latter being L most essential for the best re suits in an irrigation system the productiveness of this region is furt lier enhanced balong bylong by long periods of sunshine in each year aud a beneficent climate that r A T gives abundant yield of crops a arid d vigor to therome the homebuilder home builder the riverside dam is roughly feet long on the crest 17 0 feet wide on the bottom and 36 06 feet above the bed of the river it has a reinforced concrete spillway a concrete tunnel feet long 4 feet wide and ana 8 feet high through the center of the dam in which is set the steel teel gates one 8 feet high and 4 feet wide and two gates serving a three and four foot pipe ro hect ively that are used in connection with the electric powei plant which will be constructed at this point approximately electrical horse power will be generated this will be trans knitted to the towns of burtner oasis deseret Desere fc hinckley abra ham and other points where it may be needed four sets of large steel gates are bein being 9 in in stalled iq in the dam at the sevier bridge I 1 reservoir and while this work is going ta for forward wari the construction st ruction will be completed at 0 the riverside or M melville EI ville dam in closing off the river installing aoel ao fl ui in the danals canals etc I 1 about abour fifteen mr miles 0 f canals have ben been com completed f S leading f from rom this diverting dam and upwards of acres res will mal 41 v y I 1 k be served by the system during th the present r year jtb abe q dam V tr t prop proper er wills will b be e fully 1 completed amp 1 I eted I 1 bomay by r I 1 i lay Is J millard county Is 13 beginning an drahl era of pro progression ads and of i bengal desert js is being trans fc 1 ormed formed into the garden of utah Desere eberdt tN aws |