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Show 00 UTAH LAKE WATER WILL BENEFIT LEH1 Lehi, Jan. 11. Utah lake water will be turned onto the Lehi fields the coming season. At a meeting of tho directors of the Utah Lake Irrigation company held yesterday, it was decided de-cided to extend the canal from a point west of the Jordan river at the Narrows, Nar-rows, across the river, and southeast Into the old fields of Lehi. A large Inverted siphon about one-fourtn of a mile long and capable of carrying thirty second feet of water, will be laid across Jordan river Piles will be driven in the river on which the siphon will rest. It will be built of wood staves, held together with iron bands, and will be built by Owen Gray & Co. The point where the siphon crosses the river Is about half a mile north of where the Interurban railway crosses. cross-es. From this point it almost parallels paral-lels the state road and crosses It where the Mercur branch of the Salt Lake Route crosses, and empties into the Lehi Irrigation system northwest of Lehi City. The water will be sold to the farmers farm-ers at the rate of $40 per acre. For many years the Lehi farmers have had a short water supply, but the addition of thirty second feet wlh give them an abundance for ali purposes pur-poses and will greatly increase lhj farming possibilities of this section. The water will have to travel a distance dis-tance of about eleven miles in order to get into the Lehi system. It is first pumped out of Utah lake one mile south of Saratoga Springs, Hows north for a distance of seven miles, and then back four miles southeast to Lehi. Work on the construction of both the canal and siphon will be commenced at the earliest possible date |