| Show WILL I 1 ILL BE SHOWN SHOWS NEED OF BIG RESERVOIR w which litchi can call aid in III repa araug tit pLis gage of f the th bill cur car of 2000 1000 ling mg an all appropriation 00 for the building ot the picas at t valle irritation irrigation system is KID ing left undone at this end of lit line ats s a result of the apy api tipi 1 I of the city council counell ot of pi ice the governor and th the state ml a board hoard john Y smith is now a 17 ashington D C with ith let en from these officials ficiala of and from agte engineer mcgonagle arg iz g consideration of the measure ni a forth the merits of ie e pro project eject no one in the state s bedier qualified fied to present the cea of such a reser reservoir N air and gifta of nor to anner regarding local condi conill ons ions etc than mr nath in presen tUtt tile tlc alc case to governor over nor bamberger mr me onale arote rote the irrigation project cl cire cle cir e 0 price is ri adjoining tb the main ine me of the denver and rio rande paralleling it southeast or r some six miles and extending uth approximately 15 miles A is watered Nat ered by tho the canal ss em en diverted divert td cd by b their diversion o 0 at a point three and a liala lilts es down the prica price river from itt cit of helper chils irrera ion company is by the amers under the corporate e of the carbon land water nd power company the water 1 the above named riv river er Is s sup lied by b the runoff of beneral adred square miles of the auit lope ope of the wasatch Wai atch range the principal rin cipal streams into ihu hu nver river an ar known As s the hite iver and fish creek white ri rier er rm ming iii that of the coun ry lying north and cast east of df sol r summit and pash fibel fi 6 ec eel k raining the pleasant valle valley aud sud gooseberry valley valle during the months of march april binl ami and ma ala of each acar 5 car tins this wr attains a volume of matel eteh a thousand belond feet bell is man times the amount water required for the abail ble ie aro ipe of land larli susceptible cirii ini gann aaion and cultivation un mate 3 july thi amant allen alle through 80 chiji ah creeh the TOU main graub li of be pr t c ri nei ei contzius conti ius cost spir edid site for i x reser oft ito topo of 0 this aunt v is that a reservoir uld be at a u lie e cost capable of delivering un tin tre foo irr tr r midsummer and lute late legation for sixty thousand res df it land the records in N s assure iri that the a rage ge runolf of fish erack annu ily conid much more than supa iya amse voir of oi thi capacio capa i cit Y the of this amount of vaters of fisli creek which aall runs to waste through ht wint winter r months and the spring achs of high water of march rd and may alay it would rol ild assure III ers on olt the tile lands aing 1 ing under project in carbon count an all dance of water sufficient to odlee all kind kindt s of crops raised 14 this 1 totality lota l alty lity the abundance of the annual W of of unter atar running through fill creek is well knovs to the ople pe of sanpete county A corn coin e of the tile water users of sane ete bolint county have recent visited thi a nitice and request the brivil fe e of filing on oil the tile surplus ia 4 ter abo e that required by b lauds carbell county thib surplus rater er the feci propose storing in the amoth reser re senoir Noir site above pleasant ant valley and also ancl tunnel rough the tile mountain avest at at i nf of meveral lit li undred indred aad dollars liars and ag this M surplus water to the faun falin rs of i diether or not alerc mould be ile sufficient clent water vater 14 kan ell cirs cari to provide the addi ai lal of the farm er ln in Sali pete couil collit co it is in in alrid ad problematical lilt I 1 ut there is li Il estion as to the tile abundance of it the annual supply to provide the nis ints of future settlers 04 the e sixt thousand acre acres in barbon oon aunt As the tile character of the soil eai a the e lauds lands adjacent adja pent to the 01 price is such that by their tG through lin rOugh i 81 irrigation i Kation through the of april may alay and early june nil all acre foot stored for I 1 ite tte irrigation would make niile the tile crop rop production of this till section not liot only abundant but one of great grent hazard unless the storage water mater was assured them I 1 the state land board has been in lit close touch with the local project and with mith local conditions oll because ot its effort to have save the tile fa farmers under the tile old price riv rin er irrigation system from froin bank rupley and at the tile same time pro int interests ersts ot of tb the s stac tt te which ea held a it mort mortgage gare of nearh on oil the old pirtea it in view of these facts the letter of it R E davis president and ar thur kuhn of the tile board is especially jutt interesting resting and should beir much weight height 11 it re reads ada for the past ten tell 3 cars a por tion of th lands lying 4 ing under the canal s system now nou owned and controlled b carbon water witter I 1 land and power company has been under cut cultivation nation the production records of these lands show them to be ile Nonder wonderfully fully fertile the quality b being bing ing of decomposed band sandstone stone and fluvial soils od the farmers ho however Never have bae been lir limited cited these pest two no I 1 casoni in their production ba b a shortage of water mater for irrigation caused by the destruction ot oi the 31 mammoth ammoth reservoir two vears years ago the ex cellena fertility of these lands make them of special value aluc to our state bv by reason of their loca turn tion on a transcontinental line of 0 rail railway wa and by reason of the fact that they are surrounded by b splendid hp lendul markets in the great coal camp camps i of carboy county it it is to be regretted that the unimproved tracts of land iving lying under ahn tin canal not cultivated on oil account of the lack of inid midsummer summer and late irrig water in III addition to the lands ImI abely under tinder the present canal there I 1 is a it vast ast tract of iteld benty five thon thousand sand acres splendidly located west of f the tile liott lio jt and arid for which tin re is 14 abundant water anater going to wiste in the puce river dunne during the birly cirl spring pring donth I 1 alls III gutc vi ate would be ile av an in the con st ruction of a reservoir in ill pleas int it I 1 ilac illy and the coulch completion holl of t tin ile billal sNi botein stein intended to ir brigate thi this A brict this body bod of 0 lund hind would mould lit b ai liable for by 1 nian many of our returned soldiers Lr who wilo would mould be assured ns stirel remunerative returns ba b cultivation atlon of those these 1 linds if the flood waters vater of the price liver iner were stored and the canal complete completed J supply ing the tile project in no section of our would new lands land reach the value of this tract in ill so brief a time is the tile are tire located in a era cr wealthy health y section where the mining towns town s engaged in the coal would uld furnish per manant markets for all their pro duee ilice t we believe that if the state of utah through oar rc presenta fives in tit congress can secure the pas passade age of the tile bill introduced in lit the senate bv by lion ilon william 11 II king and in the tile house by co congressman 11 milton welling providing for an appropriation of for the construction of a rese reservoir coir in pleasant valley alley with a storage capacity sufficient to delin deliver er the tile nece necessary water nater for late irrigation and for the completion ol 01 the named canal which will irrigate 11 these lands that it v vill ill result in the immediate settlement and development OpIl lent of this project by several hundri d of our who mho arc are seeking fao favorable rable tracts tract 4 of land to settle on ind and cultivate ahe letter of Goer governor nor isam to congressman welling copic i nt t which aich were lent to ul the utah delegation it in congress follows it 11 his is come to in my attention that a bill has been present presented ed in the fi carte providing for an ill ap of f two wo million dol lara jars for the reclamation of viiu agricultural lands landi in carbon county jis governor of the stat stati I 1 am deepa interested in the sue site acas of the bill inasmuch as all it will mean immediate develop mint of 0 one of the most fertile sections sect ioni of the re a gion I 1 am info john I 1 eiith acho has been identified aidi the development of the C ir I 1 on oil L tilt md wat r and pou er om oin pin piu tor the len tell cirs plans rt it trip to washington 1 I C in lit the inte interest test bill no doubt he lie call give ivo ou ott first hand than it would bi IR to obtain from any other source but I 1 am taking the libart liberty of bendit g it hini luin sonic on oil the desirability and feasibility of the project from froin tile state engineer and ohp ali state board of land commissioners i permit me to assure you nou that all of us at tit home are tire deeply inar c ted in the success of the bill if I 1 can call be of any assistance in lit bringing about ft a faNo favorable rable consideration mide ration of the I 1 trust aou vill nill not hesitate to call upon me it certainly has BI tn im un tied fled endorsement indorsement indor governor bamberger and state engineer Alc Gonagle will vill be in lit washington in a few feni days and will perio nall up the anat ter with milli members ot congress mr air smith ha lias with him all pos sible data ai a to runoff ibid and alre age ith distances to market tind the desirability of supplying supply in the mining camps callips mith leonle prod nets it Is ilso also ceitlin that il it the I voir IS 14 1 4 til th it a hugai factory vill lie ile built with lit in a aar no noar ar after the ali irrigation bs tys tion mork uti vill all to hundreds of rc returned turned soldiers to tun toto to is 1 the tile cont construe nic and there mill v ill bo be thousand of ot oi land na ilalIe for them after they jhc thc ajac completed tile jol joll ahe llie plans fur for the carbon wa land liand rind im er company com pati for taking over the old price riv er r irrigation batem from the tile state after ith six rix months since foreclosing the mortgage inor tae had expired have ben consummated and the new company is in excellent shape for carrying carr carra jing out ovit lir big thins things the state is ri to receive ii but none of that oum to be paid for 1 13 year years it will then be paid off in lit seven installments the utah savins savings and trust company om pan was also taken care of and v aill ill be paid its claim of if the govern ment builds the bg big dun itin canal system carbon i guati will come into its min |
