The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-11
PLANS FOR BIG RESERVOIR
zBelief That Utah Light & Rail-
way Company Still Ad-
heres to Old Project.

\ real estate transfer which was con-
summarized here yesterday is construed to
mean that the large storage reservoir
contemplated by the Utah Light & Rail
way company at the head of ogden can
yon, will be built over the protests of a
certain element who bitterly opposed the
proposition when the power people ap-
piled to the county commissioners for the
right to change the roadway to make
room for the big project. The Utah Light
* Railway company has purchased the
Rirte estate, consisting of $50 acres of land
and considered the most valuable of the
entire site Of ESQ acres. The price paid
was Slice
This land deal, il is understood, has
been on between the Power company and
the heirs to the Ririe estate since last
August. tt is believed that the promOt-
ers of the large reservoir intend to carry
out their original plans and that the dam
will be built. This dam will cover ESQ
acres and will be used to conserve the
waters of the three forks of the Ogden
river. Ogden city VIII then be supplied
with power for all purposes and many
placed under cultivation the water for
the irrigation OF this land will come from
the reservoir.
When the project of the Utah Light &
Railway company for the construction of
the dam became known through the ap-
plicsticn to the county commissioners for
the right to change certain rOadways
which interfered with the company ;
plans a number of meetings were held
IifOuglOut the country. some IN Opp0Sl-
ton to the project and others in favor
of IL. The commissioners announced that
they were in sympathy with the move
nlent as it would benefit the county
greatly through bringing into cultivation
q large amount of arid land to say moth
ing of the benefits 20 be derived by the
increase in the facilities for producing
rover. However, the opposition to the
project became so strong that the Power
company withdrew its application for
change of the roadways and it was
thought that the matter had received its
final quietus.
This now would appear to have been a
premature conclusion. With the land puT-
chased from the Ririe estate the Power
company owns about 500 ceres of land
desired and it is expected that its inten-
lions are 10 buy the balance at once.
Should there be any attempt to hold the
company UP for a fancy price, 1t is said
1t will begin condemnation proceedings
and acquire the land in that way.
The estimate of cost attached to the
erection to the dam is said to be about
S1.5O6fO0.
E w Wade commercial agent for TIE
Utah Light & Power company. stated YES
terday that the purchase of the Ririe
lsnd was for addition to the present
retaining reservoir which much be in
creased to SUD ply water for the present
season Investigation shows, however,
that the raise proposed to the old reser-
VOir only covers seventy acres while the
purchase includes 161 acres and extends
far into the property wanted for the large
storage dam and in addition to this some
g he roads in question are on this prop
erty.
a. - believed that the small dam will
be enlarged at Once and in the meantime
purchases of the land wanted for the lar
ger project will be made and where this
will be filed and the land acquired at
prices set by the courts.