Show I 1 r 1 OF W y af N I 1 RIVER 14 BY WILLARD YOUNG AND PARTY OF financiers plans Matti maturing rind fo for the impounding of waters and building I 1 of canals A party composed of willard young f civil en engineer gincer of salt bako liess rs early and kurtz financiers represent 1 ine ing the steel trust and their bugl have completed tho the first preliminary inspection of dy weber canyon and ani weber river in tho the interest of the irrigation project which has for its ob eject tho the construction of a series erles ni of and canals to water vast tracts of dry land in weber morgaa morgan and tind davis counties mr air young with a number of eastern engineers will make surveys and map out the general st scheme herne of the canals ean ais and waterways for this purpose another trio I 1 will week bo be made in all probability this kurtz and early it ia 19 under understood stool will spend about in prella preliminary A work before deciding definitely to erect dams in weber canyon and materializing one of the biggest water projects over launched munched in utah A number of local men aro are interested edin in tuo proposition and they ara are confident that a company will be fonn ed by the eastern capitalists to ex plo I 1 t th the 0 reclamation of high lands in the counties countley count iea lej named the scheme is entirely fea feasible according to tho test best information which tho the engineers have ha w c been ien able to obtain weber or county will be benefited ted to a large by the plans of the pro loters looters hundreds of acres of land lying ot of ogden and along the mountain line as far north as brigham city will be watered it la Is the due inte intention ution of the financiers to maintain a number of dams along tho weber largo larg enough to hold bade vast tast quantities of water that annually run into tho the lalie by a proper distribution it Is held hold that a supply of water mar be ibe directed dir wd over the country that will concert convert con cert whole sect sections lons into valuable and fruit land |