| Show BONDS TO BE VOTED ON SATURDAY tho the bond election for the proposed moon aloon lake and lake pork fork dam Is called tor for saturday july the construction of this new reservoir is causing a great deal of discussion as a great many basin people are vitally concerned in the matter the plans for a 70 foot dam were made by C C jacobs who died and as the time for the bond election approached the dry gulch irrigation company requested the christensen jacob and gardener company of engineers of salt L lake ake city who are the assignees of C C jacobs to make a new analysis of the proposition figures and approximate costs of danis dams of three dimensions have been estimated one 70 foot dam with a storage capacity of acre feet and an approximate finished cost of the second a 60 foot dam with a capacity of acre feet and an approximate finished cost of the third a 45 foot dam with a capacity of acre feet and an approximate finished cost of it if spring and fall storage Is figured the small dams actual service is instead of acre feet of water the dry gulch irrigation company has only acres of land under lake fork river which could economically use not more stfan acre feet for a number oi of years the smaller dam Is unquestionably the more economical one to build now it if at some future time it be found necessary to raise the dam to the 70 foot it will mean a probable loss of in cost that is it will water in the smaller dam is cents in fifteen years assuming of course that enough acres are using the water to use it all the cost per acre foot of stored water in the dam is an acre foot will irrigate two acres making a cost of per acrea acre at this rate the dam will actually I 1 pay tor for itself every year that the company needs water it if the bond should be a fifteen year bond with one fifteenth payable each year the principal charge would be twenty five cents der er acre tile the interest charge would be awen ty five cents per acre the first yeat year with a yearly decrease assuming ming a fifteen cent operation e charge per acre would make a cost of sixty five cents per acre reduced to fifteen years assuming of course that enough acres are using the water to use it all the amount stored with the small dam would be adequate to supply the other small irrigation companies on lake fork river in addition to the dry gulch irrigation company and still leave available some water for the uintah side hide providing a survey proved that it feasible to construct a canal from lake fork on the ulnah uintah side NhI whichever chever way the issue turns on the bond election the water storage problem is a very vital one to this one that will effect very materially teri ally the prosperity and progress of this basin |
