The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-20

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of Price as carried out at Town hall this
evening. AT the conclusion of this pro-
gram there was dancing at Thomas hall;
Meeting called to order Lew N Harmon
Music ..-........-..-.-....--.P Price Orchestra
Invocation ,.-...-.---------;,- Ii race
Response -.--...........-.-W. ID. Livingston
Overture Price Orchestra
Speech ........... Governor John c. Cutler
Response 10 the toast, horticulture.
--.-.-.----.--.....-.-Dr DIR. John A. Widstoe
Remarks .......-.......-.....-.E ;: Horsley
Song ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Murlel Wade
Response to the toast, Education
Applied to the Farm" -....--.......
Professor r. r. Lyman
Response to the toast, Conservation
of Water -,-.----....-; Caleb Tanner
Response to the toast, Educational
Facilities of Price" Rev. r. P. Nichols
Recitation Miss Alexander
Music ......................-P Price Orchestra
Comments .........--......;.W J. Lynch
president State Land Board-l
president Irrigated Lands Coz :
Song ................. Hector Evans
Response to the toast, Price as a
Commercial Center" II HaSselberg
Response to the toast. Future of
Eastern Utah" ......--...-G. A. lverson
Speech -.--.----.--...---.--- w imam Spry
Reorganization. DR. George n Brimhaii
Musical selection--Ee N Harmon. Jr.
Personnel of the visiting party Dr.
George H. Brimhall and Professor W. II.
Homer of Brigham Young university
James Christensen. state treasurer: Ca
ieb Tanner. state engineer; w. ID. Cand-
land, T. c. Callister and wife, w n
Thayne and Henry n. Hayes of the state
land board; James A. Melville and wife.
William d. Livingston and wife, Willard
Hansen and wife, d. NJ Landreth and
wife, A. 5. Barnes, incoming attorney
general, and wife. A. Livingston and
wife, H. A. Kearns and wife, Mrs. Teas
dale and Miss Estelle Whiting, Miss
George Reid. Van d. Spalding. William
Hill, ]. w. Paxman. Thomas Austin,
Isaac Grace. Farley Austin. G.. X. Emp
son. John Y. Smith. John Whelan, ]. II.
Stoves. H ]. Fitzgerald. Professor J. II
Merrill. j. NJ. Kierkman. ]. R. Smith, ].
s. Manley. DIR. John Christensen, M. S.
barrow, William Thornton. A. Melville,
Richard Jones. Frank Tying. H. Lewis,
G. A. Smith and numerous newspaper
men and several railroad officials.
Line Of the Canal.
| The canal of the Irrigated Lands
company, into which water was turned
today, comes out of the Price river at a
point about half way between Helper
and Price, where a diverting dam OF
! concrete costing in the neighborhood OF
| 900 turns the water to the south
! side of the Price river. The canal runs
| i'm a generally southeasterly direction
| for twenty-three miles, through Carbon
and we'll into Emery county. On the
canal line there are numerous pieces
1 of side hill, tunnel and fume work. one
! piece of 'fiuming and excavating foI
the same having cost in excess of $685.
! 600. The ditch is sixteen feet wide al
tie bottom, twenty feet at the top, and
| carries an average depth of four and g
half feet. Laterals of various sizes anC
| dimensions are to distribute the water
along the canal to users. One TUNE
just west of Price is 800 feet long. eigh
feet overhead and sixteen feet in width
concreted most. of its length. Unlik,
many proposition of this kind, there il
no dead territory along the canafi
route, for land may be watered from
within the first half mile from the riy
ers diverting point. The Spanish Forl
Construction company has had the worl
as contractors. F. r. Coates of Boston
is the consulting engineer; NJ. s. Oar
row, chief engineer, and H. B. Daugh
erty, engineer in charge of the work i
the field. A. r. Kerstetter is superin
tendent OF construction.
Price River Valley.
With the settlement of these %,
acres Of lands under this new irrigatio
system, Carbon county promises to be
come quite as famous for agricuitur,
horticulture and stock raising as fo
the production OF coal and coke, the tw
latter at this time her chiefest indus
tries. Fruits of all kinds, with the e1
ception perhaps of peaches. grow hel
as we'll as in any OF the other section
of the state. No better wheat, oat
alfalfa and vegetables are produce
anywhere in Colorado or Utah The so
is ideal for sugar beets. as is shown b
government and state tests by expert
I Of the valley high ?
sixty-five bushels of wheat to the acr
! but perhaps forty would be nearer Ii
average. Wheat averages forty-fiy
bushels AS high as 800 t6 500 bushe
of potatoes are taken from an acre
| ground Four TO five tons of alfalf