OCR Text |
Show flcult matter to rontrol tho water of tho river If proper dykes and breakwaters break-waters aro built during tlio low writer lime. When (he channel of the stream once' fixed In a direction away from the lands, the danger of tho land toeing Inundated Is virtually averted for all time. These bottom lands thus reclaimed and placed In active sen Ice will become valuablo farm lands, but In ttrelr presont condition con-dition tbey serve only the purpose of growing Jungle as tho hiding place of criminals and the camping place of trampa. The transformation la much to be desired REDEEMING BOTTOM LANDS J. P. O'Neill has returned from Logan where lie recently finished the building of a large sewer system for Hie city Mr. O'Neill states that the last trench has been dug and the sewer pipe laid, the extra work done and the system turned over to the municipality. Tills is the first tower system to j be Instalk-d In the Temple city of the north and it is said that It Is sufficiently suf-ficiently extensive to give the city a fairly god sewerage. Tho cost f the nysteui was In the neighborhood . - of Slo.inii). The contractor savs that considerable difficulty was encounter, ed In the work because of quite a large quantity of water in some of thy trenches which necessitated the iie of pumps Mr. O'Neill now has a force of men and teams at work clearing a large tract of river bottom land along the Weber river Immediately south of Hie Bamberger railroad bridge It Is said that the land Is among the richest In tho country and that when It Is cleared of the quite extonshe growth of cottonwood trees aud leveled level-ed for agricultural purposes, it will among tho most productive farms of the county. A great deal of work has 'been d-ne on this tract of land by way of clearing it and dyking against the overflow of the "liver water, but It will require much more labor to put the land in first class shape- for farming. It is claimed by those familiar with ... u .... , laminar wnn the situation that there are many acres of splendid land In the bottom'n and jungles of the Weber river, between be-tween Ogden and Uintah, and much of It along the river ne-rth and west of the city, that may be recleanK-d In this way which would mean ihe turning of the entire area now covered cov-ered with cottonwood trees and, in high water, partially lnaindated, ' Into productive fields and gardens ' R )s claimed that It will not. be a very dlf- |