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Show BIG IRRIGATM)NPROJECT PIANHH) TliouamU of Acrr to Ho Hiilalmtil In (ni'ii Itltcr Section. 1'liiUN for the reclamation or four million acres of arid nnd swnthp land In the Col'irndo Itlver Hasin. i4ght hundred thousand acres of which lie In I'lsli, aa farm fnr reurninl mi-dlers, mi-dlers, sailors and war Industrial workers, work-ers, receive) startling Impetus this week. The United Hlatea reclama-motion reclama-motion wrvlnr. turough J. T. I.ytel of the Htrnw'berry project, has filed on the third big Irrigation project In Utah. Ttie fllln are on four thousand thou-sand second-feet of water to bo taken from tho (lrveu river between April 1st and November 1st to Irrigate twenty full townhls and nlno half tuwnshlM. Only two hundred and fifty thousand thou-sand acres of tho land actually will he Irrigated, thu rest being left In thn rough, the application sets forth. The lands are in the Hnu Unfurl and Orceii Itlver Valleys, and the point of diversion diver-sion I five hundred feet south of tho conflueiiie of Coal Creek and the Ciml river. Tha diversion works will consist con-sist of a reinforced concrete dam, nt least one hundred and fifty feet high nnd prolmbly two hundred ni.d fifty tret long, a hondgate nnd a en mil. The canal will lm about ono hundred hun-dred and twenty miles long, one hundred hun-dred mid forty. flvo feel wide nt the top ami eighty feel wide at the bottom. |