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Show RESERVOIR 'ON SEVIER RIVER Nephl Straw of the Straw Construction Construc-tion company of Sprlngvllle, who Is In the city, states that the prospects for crops In and about Sprlngvllle this season have never been better and that the prosperity of the country in general is reassuring. The old reservoir site of the Sevier river near Leamington is to be rebuilt a few miles farthor up the river, at a point known as the "Rocky Ford," wheco It is anticipated that bedrock will bo found. The great trouble in Sevier river dams for years past has been that bedrock has not been obtained. ob-tained. Many of tho early settlers of Millard Mil-lard county at Desoret and Oasis lost their fortunes through the breaking of tho dams placed In the Sevlor river. Three successive times the Deseret dam ga'te way and the water carried everything before it and loft the crops to periBh. This was In tho early time of tho settlement of western Millard count. oo |