Show I IMPORT INT IRRIGATION ION AND POWER DWER PROJECT Orr On 1 tho tha most moal Important o rv lork ork undertaken In this vl 1 in will he started calling fur fOl au Initial expenditure of to by by nn an additional outlay or of When completed the re result sult tho generating of or of electric current and the ring of oC a large and rich agra cultural with a greatly in fu Creased water senico The which makes malte po this bIg expenditure and these far reaching improvements ments was reached 1 yesterday afternoon when whon the direct mB as of the Davis Dals Weber We or Counties Canal company mot met In the tho office ot of J JI JC c Nyo No In this citro I Simon Ba a year ago ngo flier I on the waters of o We WC Weber her ber river rIer above the canal Intake an and served sered notice on the Davis Dals canal directors that he Intended to t take o e or of the tho state state la law which allowed filth to convey conver the wale waLer through the tho canal ennal to n a point whore t sufficient fall could ho bo obtained to gen generate crate erate 1 a largo horse power but ut h he e loft It optional with tho iho canal people to lo decide whether they as a corpora corporation lion tion should do this and sell him th the power at a d or len leav e the undertaking to Lo be carried out by his railroad company Y the directors answer to lo Mr fr Bamber Bamberger ger to the that the tho power would be generated by their company This I was reached alter after a careful or tho cost coat ur by a most fost cool com I engineer and nd after the Inane Ins of the project had boon fully you o into InLo outlined nod mode made possible The rhe present canal along the San Ri Ridge se from froll east or of to the ter ler terminus minus a distance or of nearly ten miles be e concreted so as to lo flU nr t Impervious aqueduct twenty fee wider capable or of carrying four feet CeeL o of water waler This will be one of tho I larges waterways ever constructed In tho rho west rho rhe object of using con crate its 16 to reduce the seepage do de der crease r nHo the tho friction and increase th the carrying C of the canal so 60 that of second toot the canal cana will have a capacity c man many time greater allowing for or the diversion oC o second feet through a flume at Ih the fui m Which with a fall aU or of over oo feet will vill generate approximately horse power Tho directors of In hA n planned to ralso this money by bystock a stock stacIe Issue of J to ho wont at al 60 1 it phare mill In addition I they hor have hao for Issuing In bonds based on their entire IrrIgation system ins tho the his big reservoir the mone money to tn tobo ht bo appropriated to power r pear the farm south of Ogden and IId to raise mise the tho dam in East bast Canyon thirty feet practically doubling the C capacity lt or of the There Is no doubt as to the tho ability of the company to finance tails storage canal and pow power r project l as t success of oC the Davis k Counties Ca Canal al has bat been Phenomenal 1 and I standA as the best proof In all tho rho W West lt of the value of oC orator waLer storage and distribution Prior to 10 the tho time when Engineer cr Wm built buill the reservoir in III Canyon the tho 1000 of oC tho ho stock lock sold at 1250 a share sharo Since Sinco then tiro stock has been increased to lo shares and no at at a share shan with none to bo had at that price In n other othel words b by the investment of U OOOO in a storage reservoir and canal tern lem a o worth hud had been increased in value to With the enlarging or of the canal and the generating or of power the or of the system should bo be doubled and this section of country be greatly |