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Show SOUTH FORK' PROJECT IS REVIEWED Representatives of tho different canal companies of Wober county aro holding a meeting this aftornoon with tho committee appointed a few inonthB ago to raise funds and to incorporate a company to build a largo dam on. the South Fork of Ogdeu river. They aro to determine whether they will subscribe more stock or turn tho matter mat-ter over to theIty to build the reservoir. res-ervoir. Tho meeting was called to order by William Glasmann, chairman of tho soliciting committee, there bo lng a good attendance from tho coun try districts. Tho mayor explained to the farmors that the committee had worked faith fully and hard In the farm districts to got the farmers Interested In the project, pro-ject, but that the farmers had shown indlfferenco and had not subscribed enough stock to bo of material assistance. as-sistance. Of $211,000 subscribed, tho country districts had pledged onlv about $25,000. Th,ero Is yet $110,000 to bo raised, tho mayor stated, and, unless the farmers subscribe that amount, Ogden city will go ahead and build a dam. forJts own riuroses It was explained to J.he farmers that ll is a question entirely with them and that they do not have to accept tho proposition unless they desire to. The chairman stated that Ogdem had come to the conclusion that It needs water and that the city is going to get it, whether the farmors Join in tho project or not. If the farmors have all the water they want, tho speaker said, there Is no reason why they should spend money for more, but if they are ehort this year and know that they will be short again, there Is ample reason for them to take stock It was also explained to the farmers that there Is no "nigger in tho woodpile," wood-pile," but that the plan Is for the heneflt of the whole community, tho farmers and the city neople alike. In answer to a question from a North Ogden representative, as to the electric power proposition, Mr. Glasmann Glas-mann stated that ho could give no Information at all. for it was not within with-in hls'powor to mako promises of any kind. He said that he .and the balance bal-ance of the" committee wore simply acting for the purpose of getting tho reservoir company organized and that all thoy expected to do was to call the subscribers of stock together when $350,000 havo bepn taken, the subscribers to form a company and do with the project as they saw fit. Mr. Glasmann told the farmers that he could not say what the company might do with Its holdings and could have no idea as to whether the company would sell water for power purposes or would not. He said the watpr would belong to the company, however, for It to do as IL pleased with it. Angus Weight of the Merchants' I Ight & Power company stated that, Inasmuch as It had been Intimated that his company was looked on as being the joker in the proposition aiming to get control of the water for power purposes, he desired to say that his company Is not interested in the project in any way, shape or form and hat hjs company undoubtedly would not buy power for the next twenty-five years. Ho said that hl,s company had alrcadv entered Into a 25-yoar contract with the Davis & Weber Counties Canal company for power and that they had all that was tcqulrcd. Mr. Wright stated further, however, that while the Wright & Sons 'company have no lands to water, wa-ter, they would take stock in the company com-pany as soon as It was determined that the farmers noed the water and will agree to take stock in the company com-pany This would be done, he said, because his company desires to see the country prosper and that ho foU that It could not prosper to the full-, est extent unless the country districts wero built up. Representatives from North 0?deu and Plain City stated that there Is not question but what the. farmers of the county will subscribe for tho required stock, but they thought It would be done through individual subscriptions sub-scriptions rather than as corporate bodies. There had been delay in the matter, they said, because of a disagreement, dis-agreement, among stockholders of tho canal companies as o the manner of taking tho stock. About a third of the canal company's stockholders, too, 'they said, were not convorted to the feasibility or value of the South Fork project. Thoy said- there Is np question ques-tion but that the farmers need the water, but 6ome of them thought $35 an aero was' rather high and that It would roqulro a lone, time of digging on the farm to pay f".r l Mayor Glasmann advised them en this score that water rights In Davis & Weber Cquntles canal company arc selling at $190 anjpacre,' nnd taat It was looked on by farmers who hold substantial waer rjghts in canal and reservoir enterprises such as the South Fork project will be, that $35 an acre would be a bed rock price. The speaker told the farmers that tho city people desired tho farmers of the county to get in on tho ground floor and get control of the great enterprise. en-terprise. Those at tho meeting were gl.-en to understand that the city will begin Monday morning to strip the Cobble Creek dam site to bedrock and that if the rural districts did not tako up the balance of the stock required re-quired by October -i. they would bo forever barred and the city would go It alone. ' F M Drlggs, of the state school for tho deaf and 'blind, stated that recently re-cently he had had occasion to entertain enter-tain some big men and that he had taken them over the Davis & Weber Counties canal ovpr on vilia , Sand t Rldgo Ynore they viewed the flow of the canal qs a voritable river lowing to tho 'farpis and orchards. Me" thought it the grandest fllgh he" had ever seen and hp felt to urgcntlv admonish ad-monish the farmers to tako h.'o'o of-tho of-tho South Fork project. Ho aald that land along tho canal, that a Jew ycar3 ago was worth only $20 an aero' on tho market. Is today selling" to $60Q Engineer Bostaph told the farmers that tho pover branch of a roaervolr project was of no value at all except that the waer could bo used for Irrigation Irri-gation purposes. To build a reservoir and carry water Mirourh tho qfuiyons to the valley below for power pur-, poses, ho said, would not pay G pen" cent on the Investment, but in utilize tho water for Irrigation tnirpoios after af-ter generating power he declared would bo profltablo to the Irrlgatlou company. Tho consensus of opinion as expressed, ex-pressed, by those at the' mooting Is that tho South Fork reservoir should, and must, lo built and that the farmers farm-ers will do their part |