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Show I1ICAT1 10 BOOST VALUES OF WEBER LAND Creation of District for This County Will Have Far-reaching Far-reaching Effect While much has bcrn !a'd and written writ-ten about the Weber county irrigation district, embracing Weber county, to-Tgcther to-Tgcther with a section of Box Elder "county, few comprehend tho enormity of the enterprise. Since the election hold August 1", ..which decided that the Weher county irrigation district would become a reality, real-ity, rather than idle talk of rlrcnmw, - new era of prosperity, not only for : "Weber county, but for northern I'tnh has started. FIRST USERS CF WATER Pioneers, entering Ogden valley and the Great Salt lake, were the first T-usera of irrigation water for crops Land was plentiful Water was adequate ade-quate for their needs and canals were opened on such lands as were easily available. As settlements became towns, and towns developed into cities, ajl of which drew on tin- ;igi ii -nl'iiral resources of the country for subsist "once, the water question became acute. ..About twenty years ;.go the limit was reached and all lands irritable under -the complicated dlstributiion systems, u i re ui'- crop. Fifty thousand acres of Weber coun ty land represented highest point of attainment under the present irrigation irriga-tion system Lands fully as capable of growing crops, but handicapped by 'reason of water Bhortage, coud not be developed And trom 50.000 acr. of cropped land. W ber county fanhi r fcollected revenues approximately four million dollars last year, while tho .manufacturers, including canners, .JJsugar manufacturers and other local consumers of local products derived approximately ?6.00ino(i Th' limit, hnwpvpr hni hr-en rt'.irliod ENVIABLE POSITION H 9 The decision to create an irrigation district, embrncing tho whole of Weber B .'county, places Opden in an enviable position in 1'tuh Under the district that double The present cultivated I acreage can be obtained. Approximati .ly 20,000 acres within twenty milt I, Ogden, the majority of the land less distant than that, and a portion of the lands within Ogden oit liml ;be changed from doubtful dry farm land to an area capable of fruitful irrigation. ir-rigation. BURCH CREEK AREA The largest of these areas, it is declared, de-clared, is represented L- the land! above the Burch Creek canal in. the southeastern portion of the cityv six thousand acre will I"- capable of cul-1 tivatlon undei the Irrigatioon district Abore the North Ogden canal in the t city, 4000 acres will be available for Irrigation. Fruit sections above the North Ogden canal at North Ogden J and Pleasant View aggregating nearly 4u00 acres, will bt opi ned, and in Box j Elder county, 7000 acres in the vicin ity of South Wlllard, w ill come under i the district Decision to form a Weber counts ir rlgation project, voiced by land own-: ers by a 92 per cent vote in favor of the undertaking will have s dii i fluence on the formation of the Davis countv district and the Morgan coun ; ty district, it is said Most of the Davis county area that is in need of further water is at the northern extremity ex-tremity of the county, l and in this : county under the Weber-Davis county; canal is at present worth $500 per i acre. Thousands of irrigable acres lie above the present canal and the high line waterway, to be installed with the completion of the Davis county irrigation district, means that the alue of the higher acres, now fit! for dry farming, will be equal to the value of the lower lands SOME IN MORGAN COUNTY Practically the same condition ex , ists in Morgan couni. where an irri galion district is in the process of forming. Both of these counties, closely re lated, will ha c a decided effect upon the wealth of Weber county and Og- den city, the chief manufacturing slte-j of the state being located here or here abouts. Farmers of the county will dc j rive additional revenue because ol the districts, while manufacturers sup-plied sup-plied with additional raw material, will profit, as will all northern Utah |