Show ORCHARD PROJECT STARTED G S bastai HAS PLANTED APPLE TREES ONE HUNDRED HONORED ACRES IN PLAT orchard company has hab splendid water supply and means alean of husbanding Hus banding the waters A reter made a trip over oer to sigurd on tuesday and looked over the in ide ade b bv the kings meadow land and dorthard company at the mouth of kings meadow can canyon on at this point there is IB a stretch of s lofing ground which has been noted chiefly for its excessive dryness its had scale beale brush its white soil and the utter bop of the project prone ct of turning this land ind to account but i I 1 transformation has taken place in the ibe last liitt six weeks G S bastian became owner of this land last bear ear ry hy a deil he mide made with erh erb dastrup the former owner ovner mr air bastian si sn possibilities in the land described which were riot not visible isible to other less astute ob ober ernert veri he pru rosed the formation of in an orchard company and 0 o well did he present the matter to his friends and business at ephraim that he succeeded in organizing a company the offic officers of this company are G S bastian president and man ager era eratus erastus jen jenann en vice pre prel ident dent mr air barton secretary secre tiry and treasurer J Y jensen christian nielsen niela nielsen and eph hanen diree tors maniger batian wag wa given a free land hand in the matter of improving the land and and planting an orchard he went ent to work on what appeared to be n no bobele ho s A silv as ever confronted a farmer in utah he put thir thirteen men and teams at work on the piece of land at the mouth of the canyon cannon just south of the plaster ind cement ml milla ila on what has been dubbed keene heights and in a month he had it plowed dragged bevelled levelled level letell led ed smoothed and laid iid off in as ahne a shap is an farm in utah it took work management sagacity and generalship and manager ba batian tian proved probed himself hin Telf ial to the task ile he had ordered apple trees 1 tor for this project and these arrived in due time athly wire wi tre re planted in geometrical lines 27 feet and in such an even een manner that glanca over oer the tract in any direction and the trees ire ill all in straight align m nt there are three N naties plinked jonathin lo nathin gaina and winesap all winter apples aples iod good hellers bellers and grod keepers then cime came the basl ot of getting water for the tree the company compani had acquired the old ander anderon on ranch in king s meadow aleido cannon and eph dastrup hid had h id unk a number of artesian irtes ian ells on oil the land these produced a stream of birn water which la is at onci el i wonder ind a delight air Ba bastan bastain during the last fall and winter had constructed a dam below this ranch the retaining wall is badt of dirt jt it it is 17 f fiet fet fi et high 0 feet beet wile I 1 lc at the bottom and is 19 firt fi rt long tins this dim was accepted lt bi thu thi state balte engine engineta tr benin this wa wall 11 if th waiter front from the flu flowing Ning wells Is 13 11 higher up the cannon and deidina le idina up to hear bear valle valley i ik 11 k the briah ill ohis albu is 19 owned bi the compana and A retaining wall aall lust below the spring deprine husbands this ater until it is needed when it j la brought down tu to the dam it the ranch still higher up in be acir ir ville valle le i retaining retain inK wall all holds back the waters aters from th sprine thaw until it is 13 needed anus it will kill be ieca ecu th con pani pan h is water N ater it at iti torn om to rn ind the water li is taken frum from the lower reservoir ba b means of a ditch and lb is earned carried along the hillside and s vent event ua balli dumpis into antua a big wash vash leading down to mouth of the canon cannon A irv rode rod above the cistern cadge of the neali planted orchard a cement and concrete dam has been constructed in the wain this retaining wall ir B 21 22 fe feit t high and this ranes baiges the water high i enough to be taken out on the orchard this dm dam loit starly thi arst his leto ic complis hed and the trees are arc all in excellent exi client ellent condition the possibilities of this project are almont boundless when litigen the th trees begin to bear a modern ti listern stern ol of |