Show irrigation PROJECT for land east of rabbit valley thousands of acres will be re claimed if big scheme ever goes through jacob BaA baratian tian one of the substantial citizens of loa was in richfield Rich neld this week on business connected with the district court having been sum boned m boned here as a witness in the lipsy case through some misunderstanding he wah wab ordered to appear on june ath while court does not convene until june bilth mr air bastian was nas asked as to the conditions in rabbit ile he said the spring hid bid been a cold and back one but ho he felt safe in savin thit crops would lie ile normal as this warm spell would start things right in the growing line the fru fruit I 1 t prospect in the lower end of wane county is elc excellent client around giles and fruits fruita there will be the usual fin fill yield of the best fruit which is produced in utah teasdale Tc asdale will also some fruit this year although there here had been some unusually hard frosts in the late ihring but that little town is well sheltered speaking of the prospect of turning the thurber bottoms into a reservoir mr air bastain said that it was the greatest and best irrigation profet t which he knew an thing of in the west he had travelled extensively in the western estern states and had seen many of the big reservoirs and canals but he was convinced that if this thurber project ever be carried through it would redeem more first class land than any other project in the west nest this land lies near the green river 0 oa n high benebee ben flies cheh are as a level as a table ind and aich which will be is valuate abe for fruit culture a the land in blue valley and around fruita he has seen land around green river held at 1000 per acre and this land which the thurber project would cover cove raould v bring several hundreds hundred 3 of thousands of equally good land andel cultivation it has soil boil and climate adapted for the finest of fruit culture and some day the proposed reservoir will be an accomplished fact there is ih an abend once ance of water ater to le e had haa in the er bottoms where innumerable springs add to the fremont river and male mal mae e it a large stream seam the si site e for a reservoir is a most admirable one and when capital I 1 ii interested or the government inkes hold of it the hage deserts now bordering the green and colorado rivers will be made to blossom as the rose and produce fruit which will bethe be the marvel odthe of the nation mr air bastian is not what might be termed an enthusiast but he has been over ever the ground he speaks of and knows something of its possibilities he is ther thoroughly convinced that the land and in question offers the greatest possibilities of any land in the state of utah for fruit growing purposes he also believes in the future of that vist tract of land lying south 0 of f green river station and following that river for miles until it lose iose its identity in its union with ith the grand where the Colo colorado radu is born |