Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-25 | Page 8 | Canal to Water Land near Perry

CUE TO WATER LAND ffifiR PERRY BRIGHAM CITY, March 25. The benefits of the Devil's Gate irrigation project will soon bo realized by the land owners south of this city, according accord-ing to the announcement of Engineer H. K. Chatfield of the Brigham Conservation Con-servation company, that his concern will begin work at once, on the construction con-struction of a four-mile canal from Box Elder canyon, where the water will be taken out, to a point this side of Perry. The Brigham Conservation company is a corporation composed of Salt Lake capitalists. The company has been working for the past three or four years building dams in Devil's Gate for the conservation of the spring flood waters, of which there is an abundance for several" hundredd acre3 of land if conserved instead of flowing to waste as it has done in. the past The company has completed the first of two dams to a height where it wilt be. possible tochegiaselllngper- - manent water rights. The dams will, be built higher just as fast as the company can do the. work, but this summer, it Is presumed, the company will devote its energies to the construction con-struction of the canafl which will carry car-ry the water to the arid land lying between Brigham awfl Perry. The reservoirs res-ervoirs are located about ten miles from this city, but 'the water will be turned into the regiilar streams, measured, meas-ured, and an equal flow taken out at the outlet at the mouth of the canyon and converted to the land by the new canal. When the fcanal system is in operation the conlpany will resume work on the dams. About fifty men and teams will be bmployed this spring in building the crjnal. The ditch will bo lined with cedent.