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Show IGLASMANN BUYS I RESERVOIR SITE t --, H.;In the South Fork of the Ogden River Joseph Peery and Wife Give H Waranty Deed for 136 Acres Provision In the Deed That H Ogden City 'and Farmers Shall Haye Water at Actual Cost H Mr. Glasmann Says That One Whole Year Em Been Lost in, H Talk He Now Proposes to Build the Reservoir With the Help H,- of the People Why the Proposed Soutli Fork Reservoir Com-H' Com-H' pany Refused to Go Ahead With tho. Proposition While Mr. H: Glasmann Offered All His Interests at Actual Cost, He De-K De-K manded an Option to Buy 15,000 Acres of Water Right For H a Canal to Be Built Among the Hanging Rock of the Ogdem H Canyon to Water the .East Bench The Ex-Mayor Asks the Aid ofEvervbody to Make Abundant Water Certain. M Jfls morning there -was filed for H ' jr& -a deed from Joseph Peery and W e to "William Glasmann, transfor-H transfor-H lnfe-,136 aores o land in -the South H - to'rirxanyon of Ogden river. ' H' Mr, .Glasmann savs-he proposes to itmed with the erection of a rescr-tvoltfat-tonce and that he has put in K flBotiqn,- the necessary proceedings that Kjn start tho work on tho dam on or R'lhouJv August 15 next; that no woilc KtQ speak of can he undortaken on the P4am before then, as" the -water will V-.m'ake it impossible to do,, much hefore Bttien,.but that the cement, sand' and H&uiiifhery will ho placed hefore that HHlqc.-'EO that the bedrock can be ex-K'cavatcd, ex-K'cavatcd, )rocecding from, five to ten Hfect more in the solid rock, and that Kihe foundation work, and about 40 feet H of the dam. will be built before frosL H'A largo tunnel will be finished boforc thc flood starts again and tho work 'ili continue ail jiext winter and Kspring and 'the dam will be high onough :o store all the water that nayjie subscribed by the present H armors of "Weber county. H Mr, Glasmann bays that up to date Bt'nly about 1,000 bh&rs'bao been oihcrlbed for by the farmers of "We-nber' "We-nber' county in tho proposed South Pork reservoir company, which w3 B Abandoned a few days ago by tho di-Ucctors di-Ucctors -elect of said proposed com pany. That uould show that only about SS5.000 could be depended on as Qommg rrom the farmers, and that sum would not even lay the foundation founda-tion to tho ground wall. SlrQlasmann'says that he has proposed pro-posed all along to Use 15.Q0O acres of the war right for a canal to be built down tho south side of Ogden cam on to the bench east of Ogden and to furi'ish water for all the land on the. mountainside between North Ogucn and "Uintah. The directort-oIect refused re-fused to give Mr. Glasmann any encouragement en-couragement to build said canal or to give blm the right or option to bnv 15,000 acres of water right for that PunJosc, hence Mr. Glasmann declined' declin-ed' to continue with tho . proposod , South Fork Reservoir company and ho fuitber refused to deed his'wator rights to said company unless ho he given the option ro buy 15,000 acre. ot water right at the same price as scld to the otijer btockholders, which Is at thp pricerof 35 per share. This wis lcfused and the directors-elect pabHCil a motion not to incorporato the South Fork Reservoir company. The deed from Mr. Peery to Mr. GJabinfmn provides tnat all thoso fanners and irrigation companies who nave dlrcadv subscribed for stock in I tiu proposed South Fork lcservolr, also Ogden Cit. shall have the op-poi op-poi (unity and chance to secure water Tights in Mr Glasmann s new com- ' pany at actual coat. This offer, how- ' over, Is not open to thoso who nnvo NOT subscribed prior to this dftto. "Every farmer who has subscribed to dato shall have, Mb chanco to got water at cost," said Mr, Glasmann. "If the pooplo of OKdcn will givo the proper oncournRoment within throe years a blfj, tunnel-canal will pour a river of water down Taylor canyon and 15,000 acres of tho bost land In Utah will t)o, placed on tho market and tho irrigation project will, within ton vafs, double the taxable property of Vobcr county. r- "im (;" I to bur tho Peery land, do you ask? "Well, it was generally .- .dOuu iiini tno Cobble Creok dain site" was on the land of M. 8. Brown-ipg Brown-ipg iiul it was also supposed that Og-uen Og-uen City owned all tho water rights In tho South Fork canyon, and when I discovered some time ago that some eastern people wore about to file on the water I promptly appropriated tho water for the canal proposition, at tho same time intending to let the farm-ors farm-ors have so much water as they needed. need-ed. My filings in Salt Lake City show thnt I had in vlw the canal proposition proposi-tion when I filed on the water. Tn going over the state records I be-enme be-enme convinced that It would pay me to havo tho land surveyed, which,, showed that all the work! done was on Mr. Pcory's land, and when the South Fork directors turned mo down and voted not to prococd with the work, f simply told Mr. Peery that I wanted to buy tho land He wanted to know what I Intended to do with It I told him I intended to build a reservoir dam on It. Ilo Bald he would sell to mo on condition that I get busy REAL QUICK and let those farmers who had already subscribed for water In Ojg old company have water rights 'at cost I roplfed, "Joe, that goes Here is your money," nnd tho deal was closed. "Yes, I own the ground on which the olty excavated to bedrock and flpcnl about $9,000. I intend to bo absolutely fair to the city. I am willing cither to pay the city in cash Just what it put into the dam site or have it appraised in water rights. I expect tho city commission to work in harmony with mo in ordor to get tho dnm finished at tho earliest possible pos-sible moment I expect the Weber club to help finance tho big canal-tunnel canal-tunnel project It will cost over 3,-000,000. 3,-000,000. "Much help is needed for the big Irrigation canal becauso the water for this canal must come from our reH-eroir reH-eroir and I oioct the reservoir company com-pany to sell tho canal-tunnel project qver n half million dollars worth or wator at cost. 'You see. my plan now Is to lot tho tunnel-canal company also have tho wator at cost from the reserolr. That Is what I asked from the directors-elect I want to make the reservoir serve the people who want the water and will sell It at the lowest possible price. I want to make Ogden grow. "That Is why I bought the Peery land. I have already spent several thousand dollars for wator rights, lands, surveys, etc Before June 1 will be able to laj all tho plans b-foro b-foro the people. Those who have rights shall be fully protected. "1 don't expect to make a single cent out of those who were ready to Join In the proposed South" Fork company. I made a mistake when I resigned as chairman of the committee commit-tee last fall . Almost six months' time was lost b doing that But I resigned resign-ed for the express purpose so that as mayor of Ogden I could sign the contract con-tract for Ogc-en Cit. I could not sign for both sides. The farmers' meeting Instructed my successor to sign up a contract with the city at once. He failed to do so, and as mayor I was more than anxious to close the deal on behalf of the city before my terra of office expired on the first of this year. I am still anxious as a private citizen to sign up a contract with the cit for its future water rights. I shall hold fast to my wator rights I and to the land until a complete un- i derstanding and ngreement lb made. In order that there will be no further misunderstandings. "I feel Sure that the directors selected se-lected to form the South Fork company com-pany were laboring under a misapprehension misappre-hension when they turned my offer down, when I offered them all mv water rijghts at the actual cost of th filing fees, $492.50, if they would give me tho right or option to buy 15.000 acres of water rlcbio ?ii tu cn -:-v they charged others, ?35 per acre. Somo of the directors thought I had something up my sleeve which the did not understand. But there was nothing to the proposition except that 1 oVartnted a HttIe t,rae to raise the ?52o,000 to pav for the 15,000 acres, of water lights. The onlv hope of giving the farmer water for $35 per acre Is to build the whole dam, and bench land Is included because not enough wator can be sold If the bench londs are excluded. It would cost between be-tween 5100 and $200 per acre watr right if. only a ?300,000 reservoir wa built as contemplated by the directors-elect of the proposed South Fork SJ"1'. hcnce the welling of the lo.OOO acres of water right for which I wanted to furnish tho buver, Is the only chance in sight to furnish the rainier with $35 per acre water right To build the tunnel-canal among the hanging rocks of the Ogden can-5 can-5 on is such a big undertaking that every ev-ery oncouragement should be ghen by everybody In Ogden, as It is tho on'v chance to get water for the 15 -(J00 acres of bench land between North Ogden and Uintah. "It ib just one year since I first started the agitation to build a reservoir res-ervoir In the South Fork canyon. Thoro has been enough talk, so far as I am concerned. I am now golu to act and the Investment of my money mon-ey should be n sufficient bhow of good I faith on my part," |