Show GRAND RIVER IRRIGATION I SYSTEM TO BE MADE Wo hington Fob l ob 10 Secretary Garfield today todar formally approved a contract with tho Grand Water ater Users association of Grand function Colo authorizing the reclamation sor ser service vice to construct an irrigation system s officially known as tho the Grand River project Actual construction will probably begin besin immediately The Thc project Is Islo lo I I In an Immensely valuable or orChard I Chard valley where some peach peRch or orchards orchard chard have sold Gold for 1200 an acre Approximately 50 JOO acres aro arc em embraced embraced embraced braced In the tho project of which 35 acres are arC public lands and tho the cost of reclamation is estimated at The plana plang provide for a adam darn dam across the grand river fifty feet feel high and six hundred feet long a tun tunnel tunnel nel feet in length and 65 fiG miles of main canal Owing to the magni magnitude tudo tude of or the engineering works the tho construction cOD period will ho bo several years cars Tho The signing of oC the tho contract makes It possible to begin hegi pro to 0 acquire necessary n r rights of way through a number of orchard tracts Suits Sl tB for condemnation will willbo willbe willbe be bo initiated at an early date |