Show Greater Goosberry Irrigation Irrig Irrig- Irrigation i i. i Abandoned Thursday a meeting of time the directors tors tl'S of the tho Juab Sanpete-Juab Water Vater Users Association and other interested interested interested inter inter- ested farmers convened ened at Mt l Pleas Pleasant Pleasant Pleasant ant for the purpose of he hearing ring a a. r p rt on oil the proposed proposed-Milburn Irrigation Ir Irrigation Irrigation Ir- Ir Project Professors Goo Geo D. D Clyde and L. L M. M Winsor Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion Engineers of the College rendered rendered rendered ren ren- I Ithe dered the report Time The first part of time the report had to do with within the available available avail avail- able water supply While accurate water measurements were not available available avail avail- vail vail-I able this point was arrived at i from sever several l definite angles and it was proven that there thero would be a total run off from the time f drainage aiea area above the canal of acre acro feet This would necessitate a feeder canal of Up ap- pro seventy miles In length beginning at Little Poets Poet's Hole at atthe atthe atthe the head of Manti 1 Canyon Canon at an elevation of feet feat and ending at the time proposed reservoir site sIto in upper Gooseberry cast east of Fairview at fet feet in elevation The second phase of the tho report had to todo todo todo do with the cost of canal construction construction construction tion dams and tunnels Due to 10 differences in in opinion relative to cost of la labor or and other cost factors the entire project cost from six to twelve millions of dollars making malting a water cost of from one oneto oneto to two hundred dollars per acre acro I foot It It was therefore concluded by those present resent that the big project project pro pro- should be bo dismissed as not boIng bo- bo Ing hug and it was voted unanimously unanimously unan unan- to lo get a report report report re re- port from the tho college engineers on the upper Gooseberry site and canal work in tho the immediate immediato vicinity This re c t will be rendered in the near future A motion was put and carried to organize a Sanpete Water Vater Users Association as there thero is not sufficient water to take care oi or Juab Count County The rhe officers thin the Ule association I as org organized are e as follows follows fol for lows Burns Burmis Cox Fai Chairman N. N J. J m Moroni 1st vice chairman i Jacob Thompson Ephraim 2nd d vice president L. L R R. R Christensen Christenson n Mt Pleasant secreta secretary rr The same community committees t to be held field over oyer in the time new The executive committee thus named empowered d by the delegates to see the Governor and State Engineer an and I s secure cure filings on the water for the tho Gooseberry |