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Show PROSPERITY FOR WEBER COUNTY Xo one improvement means so much for Ogden and Weber enmity enmi-ty as the supplying of ample water to the lands ot the Weber county coun-ty irrigation district, which is made possible by the vote of the farmers taken on last Tuesday. Of the 22,03) votes east. 20,286 were in favor of the organization organiza-tion of the district and the taking of the first steps toward water conservation and distribution, Wath 92 per cent of the land holders hold-ers voting for the proposition, those hack of the undertaking -are ! proceeding with full knowledge that the have no serious opposi tion and are supported by an overwhelming publi sentiment among the farmers At last Weber county is to get awa from ihe haphazard farm ing which was inseparable from the uncertainties attaching to a water supply dependent solely on the summer Flow oi the streams I from which irrigation ditches divert water to the farms. By next I year, or the year following, the flood waters will begin to be stored, and periods of watei shortage or drouth will be provided against, j Instead of an insufficient supply for 35,000 acres, as in th past) there will be ample water in dry years for 8M'O0 to 90,000 acres, I when all the plans of the distrii t engineers materialize. : With a greater acreage under intensive cultivation, ami assured I a good water service there will be an opportunity for the expan- K s,on f t'10 tomato, pea and fruit canneries, and a greater develop-1 I' nient of the sugar industry II Ogden will be benefited almost as mu' li as t country distri -ts by the agricultural and general industrial prosperity which will ro I with water storage. |