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Show oo 316 HUGE PLANS FD8 DISTRICT WEAR HAM Brigham City, Jan. 7. Undoubtedly tho most important meeting of the kind ever held in this city was that of the property owners in the Big Fields and business men of the city, which continued until a late hour In the Commercial club here last night. The meeting was called for the purpose pur-pose of discussing the drainage of the Big Fields lying west and north of this city, through reclamation of which some 2000 acres of the choicest land In the west will be brought under cultivation. cul-tivation. No sooner was this subject disposed of favorably than tho meeting, meet-ing, at the Instigation of John D. Peters, Pe-ters, cashier of the First National bank, took under advisement means tor bringing the East Side or Hammond Ham-mond canal to this city. It appears that the two projects would work In harmony with each other, as draining of the Big Fields would leave some of the lands in need of irrigating water as 10 me drainage or tne large tract of land lying west and north of the city, the land owners, us well as others in attendance, were unanimously in favor of creating a drainage district after hearing the reports of the special spe-cial committee appointed some time ago to make a thorough Investigation Into the practicability of draining the tract, and of the engineers who had been working with the committees, Messrs. H. C. Carver and C. O. Ros-kelley. Ros-kelley. It was pointed out in the meeting meet-ing that the producing value of the 2000 acres is now fixed at an average of $12 per acre, while under drainage this same tract of land would produce $160,000 worth of sugar beets, and the estimate was a conservative one. Another An-other inducement to crowd the drainage drain-age of the land Is that the new sugar factory will In all likelihood be located within hauling distance of this entire tract of land. A committee composed of Charles W. Knudson, -chairman, William Jepp-son, Jepp-son, John B. Mathlas, George D. Reeder and B. C. Call was appointed to get out a petition to the county commissioners, signed by the property owners, asking for the creation of the district. After this is done preliminary prelimi-nary work will be started and the proposition pushed through to completion. comple-tion. That tho eaBt lateral of tho Hammond Ham-mond canal will be extended to Brig-ham Brig-ham is very probable. The ditch is now within four and a half miles of the city, and the owners of the canal, the Salt Lake Security & Trust company, it is said, has intimated its willingness willing-ness to make the extension, provided the farmers will subscribe for sufficient suffici-ent acreage to justify the expenditure. Already a number of farmers and Brigham business men have proffered to furnish a portion of the right of way, as well as help in constructing the ditch in actual labor, as a bonus to ibrlng the water this way. The canal would furnish water for a large area of dry land lying east of the city known as tho "flat." H. C. Carver waH appointed consulting con-sulting engineer of the drainage district. dis-trict. rr |