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Show Morgan to Vote on Irrigation District Water users of Morgan will vote next Monday to decide whether or not the proposed Morgan count Irrigation district dis-trict it to be formed. The district will be organized. It is reportecj, fur the primary purpose of financing the Creek reservoir and dam. In addition to casting ballots for tnc district, tlm water users will choose three directors one from each of the three dislsions of the proposed district. Candidates for director of the dis-ti dis-ti ict from division No 1. which will ote at the RichvlUe school house, are il l: Crouch. John Henry Dickson and John 8. Carter; from division No 'i, voting at North Morgan school house, .fames Hopkins, Daniel Heiner and Charles Owens; from division No 3, voting at Milton school house. W. 10. Crlddle. Georgo Seaman and Uscar W Rollins. According to a report of A. P Par-k Par-k r of Ogden. chief engineer for the Utah Water Storage association, the activities of which were largely responsible respon-sible for the movement to form the district, It Is Indicated that a concrete arch dam could be built on Lost Creek to a height of 120 feet, and creating a reservoir in which S000 acre-feet of water could be stored, the cost of which would be about $36,000 or at the rate of $1D per acre-foot. fuch a reservoir would furnish late w:iffr which would almost double the production of some of the land now under cultivation. The project also would furnish water for land not now under any Irrigation system. The flood water of Lost .Greek is sufficient to mon than fill such a reservoir each oeason. rr |