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Show Water! Water! lore Water! (orMLPjeasant iv, hr'ng irrigation and culinary nt from the Colorado watershed M r the Wa'atch Range into this 1, has occupied much of the i of MtaJW Ed. Johnston, the j m Council. C. W. Saf.nsen and board of directors of the Pleas- nt Cr.k Irrigation Company.. For Sra- mor.ths past, a project has-Lm has-Lm created and the preliminary j Ley of a tunnel through the rlnPin, end two feeder canals, cb of which is mere than a mile m has been, completed. ."del gallon of th? C ty Council: and of the Pleasant Cr 'ek 'Irrigation gum-any board had a conference ntb'the Cottonwood! Cr-ek Consoli-ftfd Consoli-ftfd Irrigation board at Orange-riiie Orange-riiie on Oclober the second and on yble working understanding Krrd upon, to the satiefacticm: of Di m all A confer'noe by th-. 9jme delegation with the State Engineer Humphrey, has also b"en held and nwyihlng looks favorable for the ensumafcn of this spl'ndld and much needed enterprise. Scree hventy-flve cubic feet of wat'r per s'cocd of tirm- is 'outrht in supplement the present cuTnary supply in the Mt. Plea.'ant water sysTm a. well as the irrigation streams which supply both th city snd the farms that ar- now irrigated irriga-ted by Peasant Creek water. M'yor Ed. Johnston and the city council are working' incessantly to bring this item in a a protect und-T thr, WP.A. No rffort has b"m or tr'Il be spard by them to this end. H ruccess shall crown their efforts, which is devoutly to b- wrhied, great rrdit will b- du-i them for their pin-taking 7eal and farsl?htedn0sr. Perhaps WP.A. mcnev cou'dl be fpent for no othrr purpose mon necessary or a- p'rp'tually bneflcal to thi people cf this sorely drou'h-strfto drou'h-strfto section ttrn to increase their culinary and irrigation water ,'upply. County Surv-yor Fx r'ports that thn project, krvown as Mt. Pleasant'-WPA Pleasant'-WPA protect No. 3. is practicable nd extrsmply d9"'r-ible and wi'l fem'Sh enoueh nrimnry water for lit Peasant's eul-nary us- s thet torn can b- sprinMed from the tat'r work- system besides- funtfsh-Ire funtfsh-Ire enough water for the farmers inder Pleasant Crrk to raise one nrr crop and mature, the late rropn. i |