Show DRAINAGE WORK TO BEGIN VERY SOON salt lake co contractors are arc lowest bidders and will rush job to completion I 1 the work of reclaiming acres of neater avater logged land east and north of this city is to begin within the next thirty days and a vast tract of territory which has become unfitted for agricultural purposes will again be made susceptible to cultivation and be productive in every sense SL nse of the word the work has been delayed kor ifor various causes bids made by contractors a few weeks ago having been rejected at a meeting of the board called to inspect figures made and found to be unsatisfactory the board met again on wednesday of this week to pass upon new bids and the contract for perform irig the necessary work was awarded to the greene engineering and construction st company of salt lake city the bid made by that firm being vast quantities of drain tile will be required for the work and this will be made in a well equip ped factory to bs be erected on the orrock farm about two and one half miles east of bf richfield on the glenwood road equipped with the needed machinery and operated by the utah construction pipe company of which hon nephi L morris is the president this company hasy has a large plant at garland in box elder county and is is proposed to partly barfly dismantle this and ship it to richfield to be operated permanently in the manufacture of tile this method of having the tile manufactured here will save much cost in transportation por tation from northern points and the construction company feels confident that when the work of redeeming the present boggy district east and north of this city is completed there will be a steady and con constant demand borits product in iritts thai rily bacr be created t 41 j the reclamation of this large tract of land will mean much to the farmers in this end of the country As it is now the producing quality and vitality of the soil has ha become greatly impaired from being converted into a swampy muck and it has been demonstrated over and over again that the only remedy lies liea in thorough drainage great interest has been taken by farmers who own these thousands of acres of what ought to be the most fertile land in the valley and they have worked unc unceasingly easing y to get the drainage pr project obee t on its feet feets the completion of this commendable proposition more than thad acres of tillable land capable of growing banner crops of hay and grain will be added to the resources of the country and it will mean add ed wealth to those farmers who had grown discouraged because of impoverished ed conditions of soil and which again will become productive and yield bountiful harvests of bals and grains this will be one of the first reclamation projects to be attempted in southern utah |