Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-17 | Page 6 | Wide Area Can be Irrigated

WIDE AREA CAN CANt BE IRRIGATED IRRIGATE t Possibilities of Plain City Canal to Bo Be Studied I IBy By extending the Plain City I canal about three-quarters three of at a amile amile mile and nd lifting the water about 23 feet leet belief belleC Is expressed that a wide wid area can be Irrigated by water from rom the tho Echo cho reservoir T R n Jones Jane secretary of oC the Weber lily Riv River er cr Water Yater Users association said today The Tho area represents a put part of oC Weber county which has been considered a as out of at reach of the th proposed storage water benefits An engineer of at the th reclamation Is expected to make an investigation In The slight I lift let Mr Jones Jonc sail said Is I believed feasible to permit the th canal to serve rv an area extending from Irom the Farr Parr Vest West section as far Car Caras faras taias as parts of at Mr Ir Jones estimates that the sec sec- section sec section tion will come In for tor a 41 subscription ot of between and acre acre- feet acre foci teet The rho value of oC late waters such tuch as a wIlt will flow from the the the- Echo reservoir slowly Is beIng belne recognized reser reser- reservoir reservoir reservoir voir boosters say The canal com corn company company pany which has the th most later wa- wa wa water the ter-the ter the Davis Weber Weber-is Weber Is the company which has ha subscribed to the most acre feet teet Just the other day J G M K Barnes Darne vice president of at the canal com company pan said ald he h was of ot the tho In- In Individual In Individual opinion that the Davis ls Weber Counties Canal company profitably could subscribe to the th entire 7 1000 feet acre tc t extending It its canal through Davis county to BountIful and disposing of the tho wa- wa water water wa water ter to financial adv ad Mr Barnes expressed tile the thought that perhaps some ome canal companies In Weber county were wore overlooking a abIg bIg ble opportunity by not Increasing subscriptions