Show COMPLETE AND CONCISE DATA DHA REVEALS WHAT RESERVOIR MEANS TO ALL carboni CARBON neil nell it madsen than whom no one ie Is better acquainted with tw i div pleasant valley reservoir project and the potin HAI wraith wealth in farming and ita its allied ae se tivi tics in carbon county told the kl wanis W anis club of the history of the new irrigation irrig aaion project and gave the tho data concerning it in BO so onciel form that although not much of the address ts new it is 19 in euch such shape ah ape that it will place the whole proposition clearly bo be fore all those who read it tho newe news advocate believes it well arth pub lishing for preservation ly by the people I 1 who will be benefited both directly and indirectly billits 1 ha address re of mr madsen I 1 was the only feature of the club lunch I 1 j eon monday evening lie ile si balli 1 this drattler ia is located in carbon an ani I 1 emery count countes coun tio ls tho the and the larger I 1 of at the district to be ir it righted being ia in carbon county the district dietr lct em embrace braLes within its boundaries aers acres of land and Is ia in townships towne hipe 13 14 15 and la 10 south ranges 9 10 and 11 east bait salt lake me gridlan of this land which lies within O water haa has been allotted to 3 acres survey have ben completed for the conching conc Ving of water and pleasant aral al lo 10 icy which lice lies in township towne hip 12 south ra range ge 7 cast aist j iet north of scofield haa has beerse acci for the reservoir and li iv ono one of the most natural sites within our out tato state and alen the construction of the dam lam Is completed a hold over etor stor ago age unit of acre feet capacity will be afforded for the purpose of etor stor ing water to fox the irrigation irr gatlon of lands within the district history of district atho price river water district ditri it was organized under the au an dhority of chapter 68 dealon lawe laws of utah 1010 1910 us as amended by the legisla turo in 1021 11 the election for the of the district wa was hehl held in june 1021 1921 and after the election the aunty 1 nere ners met and canvassed te ve V e returns tf of the election and declared the dis triet there being for and 89 20 against the following named persona persons are the duly elected director directors of the district C H Mare president II 11 0 math is secretary and NN V A the board of directors called an ea elee tion to I 1 t hell bel I 1 oa november 25 1022 to determine whether or not the dis let should rote vote loads ia in the BUM sum of in order to raise ral the fund enquired equi red tu to bulli buill the reservoir the amount 0 of the bond was determined upon pon the following a af acquiring of aito alto PO 00 u bullying Bull Jing of dam relocation of railroad acquiring water right rights of carbon water land Ss power co lie ito locating public highway engineering legal service and contingent ex pense 00 cotal on the day of november 1822 1922 the directors direct ora met and canvassed the re tarna turns of the elet thi which result was wa 1 for with only 70 votes against the bond bonds are twenty y year ear 0 per cent interest bearing beating with payments of one tenth of the principal each year begin ning with the elo eleventh year coit cost to users there ha has bem bein bei n aare feet c cf water allotted to the various lana an own era binler the dix which is to bo be delivered to the head nate gates vf of the re ro spec tive canals I 1 inuring on a basis of acre fl feel et and a bond of av in 6 per cent interest hiter ert bearing bondi to I 1 e retire I 1 on it 10 per cent basis be ginning with the eleventh year and fig aring on a 10 cent per year operating expense dating during the first ten years the cost per acre would be int ox 01 pay it oper year don benl 1 on prin atlon total 1 itolo to 10 75 10 83 bittis 74 7 07 45 07 07 1395 the foregoing table macca no allow ance fc canal maintenance for the rea soil son that ench such maintenance is i not a part of tho the storage project it I 1 is s a charge against each eath canal company which they onuis must t charge against the upkeep of the respective canals with the foregoing anble any land owner ia in the district to whom water has been all allotted ottel tan an in a few minutes calculate the total annual district assessment on the land for una an year du ing the life of the bond per for example john jones has thirty seven even acres nt of land within ilia district to which 53 acre feet of water has been allotted according to the foregoing table chiv hiv hi assessment will be ai as follin first year 53 55 times 83 85 centi elmis ja 73 eleventh year 35 times equal equals 1138 fifteenth year M time times equals twentieth year M times 1393 1395 equals 76 7 73 43 storage cost the storage eo cost t per acre foot of wa iss ter impounded in tho the pleasant valley reservoir is 40 6 id bawd on a maximum capacity of ac aero feet and a bonded indebted indebtedness of in Q 6 per bent twenty year bonds how ever nt at thin tiro tira and until the capacity or acela known water ater supply has been determined ned ad more than the ilia present allott ment of acre feet has been made it is proper to use the acre feet as a basis on this baie the storage cost per acre foot ia its the res will be MW 1250 which cost corn COM pares very favorably with that of other large storage units of the state gome some of which run as high as 16 00 per acre foot As to maintenance and operation expense after the dam has been built there will be none other than an operator to release the water during the irrigation season froin from day to day as to the amount of water required the question has been naked asked as to whether or not the ilia owners of land within the district are for lea to as slime sume the allotment of water given aa them within tha th district or not and if the tax thomes a lien on the real roal state to mis question I 1 will eay say yea yes at the lime line of treating creating the district and through its it organization as a dis triet the allotments were male h the regular course of p wills the assistance of the state engineer the governor and the board of c bounty ut commissioners and after the allotment was made the land owner uns given a certain number of days to protest should the land owner fail fall to mike make his protest or in ill CASO such a protest was denied and legal action wa was not taken within the time provided by law low the land owner is barred by statute and then the county records thereafter will show that the land owner is the owner of so much land with so bieh water right the same cs as when you are tax li 1 for improvements that tax in ease yon own ral estate cornea a lieu ilea on tuff real estate and nud you cannot pay the one without the other where the assessment la Is regular in conclusion rone lutton I 1 want to a ey ty thit th it in my opinion the building of the tho I 1 11 I 1 as a ant valley reser rolt Is one ne of thi th gest and most profitable steps that t i county has eve ever ea an I 1 I 1 I 1 ie land owners of the di tint let are to tx tw congratulated up upon their dete to t put it over in the first rin TIR e will have in cambon touty i r Is i wilt one of the fiss tat t nu pu i mer mot resorts within our asinto ate and only a two I 1 our drive from arl and a tour four I 1 our pleasant autom automobile bile trip from salt lake I ake city those de desiring string to RU gu by train can make it a pleasant tiep and unions their camp outfits within a few reet feet from the dam our coal mines which dot tho the district on every ie will consume practically try think that the agricultural dig dis ban tan produce one of the first in das destries tries that will erring spring up will be a sugar factory then the feeding of beer and rattle eattle which will consume 0 it surplus hay bay an ani I 1 the pulp from the dattory and from here on it eta extend out into an almost of expansion can we imagine what P i means when this irrigation project ie Is completed and we have increased inere aeed our population and our assessed val bation more than two millions million st T coal operator operators of carbia county extract our vast coal deposit deposits day by day employment for thousands of minere miners and converting the coal into money which in turn Is I 1 brought back into the county paying miner miners and operating expense of the various coal corn com panic and then we top stop that constant flow of wea wealth t go going ng to var various ous par part a of the state and nation for supplies and furnish at homo the products of the farm arm which go to feed the vast num ber of employed and almost butil up an empire let us as Kiwan ians get got back of this wonderful undertaking and lend to the irrigation district all the support with la in our power to help put it over physically all human being beings anro eon strutted ted alike lint a lot of them would feel insulted it if you told them eo so auvine is something for which a man orAe times asks in order to show how nueh better his own ideas are |