The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-29

ton of the Salt Lake Irrigation Lana
/ and Power company in yesterday
Herald created a good deal OF COM
ment. Enquiry discloses the fact that
the orga nization of the company was
only the necessary continuation OIL
work that has been in progress Tor
| two years.
There has already been expended In
this enterprise between S200Oo ana
S25. 600. All the lakes named have peeh
carefully surveyed and the reces-
sary filing made. A map OF the
territory covered by the operations OF
the new company is out and the water
ways have been surveyed ana prohies
are now being prepared by Major
Wilkes.
The scheme is purely land and lrrl-
CATION one. In perfecting the moor
poration, the liberal privileges OIL the
territorial law have been taken au-
vantage OF. The waters have oeeh ap-
propriated at the highest points In the
territory, so that it can be run over
hundreds of thousands of acres of the
bench lands in what are al present I'M
SURVEYED districts. The waters VIII pc
gathered from the various lakes INTO
common waterways and Will De COLI
Quoted by means of pipe lines ana
canals to reservoirs at gwen points
from which they will BE- distributed
over the lands designed to be bene-
fitted by them.
No interference will be had with
water rights now in existence since the
company will store the surplus waters
and tap the many lakes owned py IL
and to which there is at present no
outlet, save during the very hlgh
water seasons.
An examination of the map also
shows that the company has taken
advantage of the opportunity which
will later be offered of entering the
rich Uintah agricultural region, as
soon as that reservation : thrown
omen: in fact, from its vantage IN the
Uintah range, the corporation can run
it's waters into any Of the valleys
within a. radius of fifty or sixty miles.
Very little has been said about the
purposes of the company by those IN
strumental in prosecuting the enter
prise, for the reason that no subscrip-
tions were solicited, and the desire was
to secure all the advantages 10 which
the company was legitimately entitled
without exciting any idle opposition
The projectors state the only reason
they now give any explanation of their
plans is because of public curiosity
concerning this enterprise, which is
destined directly and indirectly t.
have a very marked influence in the
development of the agricultural re-
sources of the territory at points
which have been deemed practically
inaccessible to irrigating waters.
With the admission <f Utah to state
hood assured and the control of "a
great deal of unoccupied lands by the
ney state, as well also as the control
of waters, it will be seen that this en-
terprise has been contaminated at a
very opportune period and with the
greatest possible assurance IF satisfac-
tory results to the projectors and to
those who may become interested with
them.
While the charter of the company
permits it to furnish power, do light
ing and other things incidental to the
control of waters, there is no contem-
plation on the part of the company of
entering that field of enterprise, not
Withstanding the intimation already
expressed in this respect.
There seems to be little doubt that
the plan has the substantial backing
of outside capital, though those inter
ested are backward about making ca
plantations in this regard. The gact
that the work has been in progress for
over two years manifestly robs the
scheme of any wild cat associations,
and the money already expended and
now being expended is evidence of the
good faith of those behind the enter
prise that there is much in it and that
it will win for it all the capital and
influence needed to push 1t to d SatiS-
factory completion.
The capital stock j. 100000 900 divided
into 100000 shares of the par value of
500 each, and the stock is subscribed
for as follows: