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Show THE SALT LAKE RESERVOIR. The business men of Salt Lake Citj' are attaching their signatures signa-tures to a plan which contemplates the building of dams and diverting divert-ing canals at the headwaters of the Weber and Provo rivers to cost $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. At an enthusiastic meeting held in the Commercial club. Tuesclay afternoon, it was agreed to form, a company com-pany to raise $25,000, immediately to be spent in a preliminary way in the obtaining of data, the completing of surveys and the raising of millions in bonds. That is courage. The project has not been thoroughly worked out, yet the Salt Lake business men will subscribe $25,000 to perfect the plans and they obligate themselves for $75,000 more, if necessary. We are forced to admire the faith and enthusiasm, and the up-and-doing spirit of the Salt Lake business men. With faith, you can perform miracles and with optimism you can turn a desert into a land of verdure and homes. Salt Lake may be in the dumps, but that city Avill pull itself out of the depression, with the courage that has been manifested in this willingness to stand back of a $10,000,000 reservoir project, which is to directly benefit the farmer and indirectly in-directly make Salt Lake highly prosperous. We do not aim to retard in any way this movement for the upbuilding of the state, but we warn the farmers along the'Wcber river to watch closely any scheme which calls for the diverting of the flow of the Weber to the Provo watershed. Our farmers must be sufficiently selfish 'to protect themselves from what might prove, at some time in the future, a calamity for them. Once the flood waters of Weber river, are diverted and appropriated by the land reclaimers re-claimers on the Provo river or in Cedar valley, the task will prove most difficult to regain possession of that valuable asset in the reclaiming re-claiming of lands along the Weber now not watered. |