| Show WATER FOR ARID LANDS state land board after flowing wells ca report that subterranean water can be secured and legislature will be appealed to salt lake city nov 3 T C callister secretary of the state board of 1 lind ind commissioners commission irs jest yesterday erday received the find fin d report of the men in the field NN ho be ha anve e been experimenting NN with ith bores in ced cadir ir villey valley in beaver county ibis inform information is to be used in connection with data to be jubral submitted eted to the legislature with a N bew to action as to the distribution of the v aters found the report of the well nell drivers show that nater ater was as encountered at a depth of IGO feet from the surface the dr drills IUs vere ere continued to a depth of feet and there pressure sufficient was vas met to bl burg arg al w of twel twelve e gallons a minute chis flow is sufficient to furnish water for nearly a score of farms for culinary and domestic purposes the last legislature appropriated for the purpose of carrying on experiments in the location of underground streams and reservoirs of water that might be used for culinary and domestic service in conjunction with the work carried on along the same lines by the government an interesting item in connection with the success of well driving inthe in the cedar nalley alley even its experimental stage is that the water that now comes to the surface costs only one fourth of a cent a gallon aheras the carrying of water in tanks and of inferior quality has tun run in cost in the on eighth page D ARID LANDS continued from firs ars page neighborhood neighbor hooi of two to and a half cents and even higher the pio position therefore arise and is one in which the lind board is 13 itally interest interested cd as to how best this water can be put to use one of the plans is to piss a law following in ill a general way the provisions of the care land act permitting a corporation to deeloy these water supplies and then to permit their sale under some system of state supervision to the people who use the water vater at this time N work ork is progressing bing on a project at salt wells in bo elder bount county and on dee dec 1 I when the land board meets again to other propositions will be considered and contracts may be let for work vork in the southern part of the state one is in the levan ridge country and tile the other in DOS dog valley valle in juab Itis it ii expected that the utilization of the waters naters will vill be one of the important matters to be treated ba b the gon governor arnor in his annual me message asage and one that v N ill enlist the earnest consideration of the legislature the fact thit the experiments thus far made have hae been successful it is estimated will hive bave much toward to ird inducing the lawmakers togie to give further attention to the question |
