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Show General Committee Will Canvass the City, Urging All the Business Men to Subscribe for Stock Interesting Meeting Held Last Evening at the Club. . ' ' Planato canvass the city and solicit s,tock for the South Fork reBervoir project were formulated at a general meeting of the members of the Weber club last, evening Within the next few days 'President A. L. Brewer will appoint a genoral committee of three and this body will choose subcommittees, subcommit-tees, the members of which will call upon every business man for tho purpose pur-pose of selling stock. The purposo In bringing the matter up before the Weber club was to divide di-vide the woik of soliciting stock In such a manner that all of It would not fall upon thoso who have so far devoted much of their time In tho country districts. Up to the present time there has been no systematic canvass of Ogden City and it is expected ex-pected that practically all of tho remaining re-maining $125,000 required will be obtained ob-tained by tho Weber club committees President Brewer Speaks. There was a large attendance at tho meetiug and tho project was frcoly discussed. President A. L. Brower, City Enginoer William Bostaph, W ! B Wedell and Mayor Glasmann were the principal speakers Tho mooting wa3 the means of promoting Interost hi the proposed irrigation proJeeL In opening the subject President Brewer stated that meetings of the various canal companies had been held and that It was time for Ogdon City to take a stand in tho matter He said that every progressive business man In the city should get In the band wagon and boost for the South Fork project, as nothing would bring greater great-er results to Ogden than the Increased crops and the abundance of power which would be forthcoming If the dam and reservoir were built As an Illustration of what the abundance of water has done. for Weber county ho cited the Weber-Davis counties canal and stated that every resident of the city should seo this canal rind reservoir reser-voir in order to got a correct idea of what the South Fork project means to this community. What Has Been Done. The next speaker was Mayor Glasmann. Glas-mann. He told of what had been done to date and of the efforts to interest farmers In tho South Fork project, slating that It was practically Impossible Impossi-ble to allay a skepticism on the part of tho farmer stockholders in the Irrigation Irri-gation companies, many believing that the project was a plan of Individuals to have the farmers pay for a corporate-owned power proposition. Others, Oth-ers, he said, had grown wary through the failuro of other projects and wanted want-ed to see the water before they Invested Invest-ed their money. Touching on the subject of tho amount of money required to make the reservoir a reality, the mayor said thnt about ?225.000 worth of stock had beon subscribed to date, of which amount the citj of Ogden had subscribed sub-scribed $100,000. The amount required re-quired Is ?350.000, leaving the sum of $125,000 to be subscribed He thought that at least $100,000 should como from tho residents of the city. While discussing the benefits which would be derived Maor Glasmann read from the official reportB of the consus department at Washington, D C, showing that a number of the districts dis-tricts tributary to Ogden had actually decreased in population during tho past doende. This he attributed to the lack of water to mako the soil productive. pro-ductive. On this subjoct ho quoted tho stato statistician to the offect thnt there were S9.000 acres of land In Weber We-ber county provided with ditches and suited to the production of good crops Of this vast aroa 31,000 acres Is partially par-tially irrigated and only 12,000 acres receives enough water Outlines Plan of Operation. In outlining the plan of operation Mr. Glasmann sold that after the ?3G0,-000 ?3G0,-000 worth of stock hnd been subscribed, subscrib-ed, JO per cent of the amount would be collected. Then would be started thr work of ascertaining whether there was sufficient bedrock on which to build the dam. Engineer Bostaph has already drilled holes fifty feet apart across the proposed site of tho dam and found bedrock in each instance. in-stance. While there is not more than ono chance in one hundred of there being a rift In this rock, yet the only sure way uf ascertaining Is to throw open a trench entirely across the can-on can-on and lay bare the bedrock This, he said, would cost about 3-1.000 and If It was found that the dnm could not be built the cost ol the experiment would be about 50 or "GO cents per share, and the remainder of tho 10 per cent which had been paid In would ' be refunded to the stock purchasers. "Wo could start the project with $200,000," continued the mayor, "but the cost of the dam decreases and tho aero feet of water Increases as tho dam Is built. This Is a million dollar dol-lar project and would give us 10.000 acre feet of water, but wo can show results with $350,000. which will probably prob-ably give ub 12,000 acre feet. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars is necdod after the $350,000 has been raised, but we believe that this nmount can be easily raised after tho dam has been buIlL" Bostaph Gives Some Facts. City Eng.ncor William Bostaph was called upon to give some facts concerning con-cerning tho Webor Davis county canal and also his views regarding tho South I Fort project Going back to the tlmo J ' when the Weber rlrer project was at the present stage of the South Fork proposition, Mr. Bostaph told tho mom-bers mom-bers pt tha'Webef-. club., that' twelvp yearB ago the proposition to Voto $60, 000 worth of bonds for the fmproye ment of the project carried by only 'eleven votes. The big stockholders in the company favored the proposition and tho smaller BtockholdorB wore against it, so thnt In point of numbers the stockholders stood about 3 to 1 against it. '"It cost $10,000 to uncover bedrock and build tho foundation for tt dam," said the city engineer, "and $35,000 more to build the dam proper! This gave 6S feet of dam and tho first year the stock decreased in value. ThlB was due to the fact that the farmers were not prepared to take tho water Tho second year tho Btock went from $12.50 up to $35, the crops having Incroasod In value ubout $40,-000 $40,-000 Tho next year It was decided to double the holght of tho dnm, which was done by selling an additional 1,000 shares of stock and this gave - us an Increase of 120 per cent In water stored Two yeurs later $70,000 was raised by the sale of anothor 1,000 shares of stock and tho dam was raised to Its present height. This gave us 13,000 aero fool of water or ono acre foot of water to every acre of laud Irrigated. During thlB timo stock has Increased from $12.50 per Bhare td $175 per share." Tolls of the Big Canal. Mr. Bostaph then told of tho other improvements which had been made, Including tho concreting of tho big canal. He said that two feot of water flowing through tho cemented ditch would practically flood the territory irrigated and that it was posslblo to turn six feet of water Into the canal, showing the Immense success of tho concreting project. In discussing tho South Fork project pro-ject tho engineer described the formation for-mation of limestone which projects up the sides of tho canyon at an angle of 30 degrees from tho level. He Is of the opinion that In putting down the holes to test the bedrock that they struck tho end of this rock formation and In his opinion It extends entirely across the 450-foot space without n break. If such Is the case there Is an Ideal foundation for the proposed dam, but, In repeating Mr. Glasmann's statement, there Is but one way of ascertaining definitely and that is to open up the ground down to bedrock entirely across tho canyon. He stated that the chances of finding a solid rock all the way across wore at least 95 out of ono hundred In answer to a ucstlon concerning the watershed of the South Fork, Mr. Bostaph stated stat-ed that it was equal to about 250 square miles or 100 square miles greator tnan that of tho watershed supplying the Weber-Davis counties project Wedell Pleased With Project. W. B. Wedell. the real ostato dealer, deal-er, was highly plcasod with tho project pro-ject and thought that It would bo a good plan to assess every acre of un-Irrigated un-Irrigated land In Weber county to help pay for the dam and reservoir. He advanced the opinion that if one-fourth one-fourth of the dry land In AVeber county coun-ty was Irrigated the first crop would more than pay for the dam In South Fork Secretary 1. L. Reynolds ofTered the motion that the Weber club extend Its moral support to the South Fork project and that President Brower and Mayor Glasmann nppolnt a committee com-mittee to canvass the city for tho purpose pur-pose of soliciting stock. .Mayor Glas mann amended this to the extent that President Brower appoint a committee of three, these to choose sub-commtt-locs, and Secretary Reynolds withdrew with-drew his original motion. Tho motion carried unanimously and Presldont Brewer announced that he would namo tho members of the commltteo within with-in the next few days. on |