The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-21
STILL ANOTHER BIG
IRRIGATION PROJECT
Sewer River, Land and Water
Company Opening Up Large
Territory.
FRANK r. PETTIGREW
Is LARGELY INTERESTED
Tract TO Be Irrigated Is Sit
uated in Heart Of MilIard
County.

II the present plans of tho Sewer
River Land and Water company carry
upwards of 100000 acres of new land
will be opened up and thriving town
viii be established IN Mlllard county,
about l25 miles south OF Salt Lake
CITY. next spring. Already the COM
panv has secured the land and water
rights.
Tho above announcement was made
10 The Tribune Saturday afternoon by
w. l.. Schcffcl Of Twin Falls, Ida,
former Senator Frank Il. Pethgrew OF
South Dakota, and George y. Dodge of
Chicago, who returned from 4 tour of
inspection of the property IN the pm
vatc car OF IL. L. Van Housen, dis
,irict superintendent of the Salt Lake
Route. Saturday. These gentlemen
passed a week looking over the land
and sizing up its possibilities, and they
state that with the opening next spring
one of the finest tracts of orchard land
in the entire state will be thrown open;
This land VIII also be especially well
adapted for all kinds of crops
Some years ago, Baron Hirsch OF
Hamburg. Germany, visited the tract
now owned by this company and had
il surveyed. lie financed the deal, cN-
pending upwards of $4,000, but il was
his purpose TO open only about Do
600 acres of the tract. With the
HIt1NlnI Out OIL tue hNlluulS II" -AlllAi ~ dil
war. he hurried home, and since that
time nothing had been done with the
property until il was secured by Mr.,
Srheffcl short time ago The wafer
rights. which had been secured by
Baron Hirsch, lapsed, and these have
now been secured by Mr.. Schcffel and
his associates.
Big Tract Included.
The tract located in Niillard county,
ii GIt-
uated about Lynn Junction. Oak City
and down 20 Holden, distance of
thirty-Givc miles south. These lands
VIII DC irrigated from the Sewer river,
which has 5000 square miles of water
shed. This water will bc backed up
for distance of seventeen miles into
nm immense reservoir, and two great
bitches. each thirtyfiyc miles in length,
viii he run from the townsitc to
Holden. 1t is planned 10 make Lynn
junction the townsitc, and when this
Is done the name Of that place Will
be changed 10 Nillard. This place is
now junction terminal of the Salt
Like Route. The railroad company has
erected Il dozen houses there for its en-
pioyes, and large boarding house, but
these are not sufficient TO supply the
needs OF the men. The water for Gull
nary purposes IS said 10 be the finest
IN the state, and iS described as being
pure hthia. Plans are now in the
hands of contractors for the building
of Il fine hotel This viii be of the
California mission style.
Senator Pettigrew and Mr.. Schef-
tcI are by no means backward IN DIS
cusSlng the project. aud In an interview
with The Tribune upon their return said:
''The tract of land in Miilard county
cannot he surpassed in any part OF the
state. 1T is adapted TO all kinds OF
crops and orchards. There is an
abundance of water, and as we have
secured the rights to this, no one need
fear that there will ever be a short
age,
'.Tberc will be an irrigation ditch
seventy miles in length; that is each
ditch will measure thirtyfive miles.
Then the big reservoir Will be kept
full all the time. and occupants of the
laud Will have really more water than
they will know what to do with.
Opening in Spring.
1.-The opening will take place early
in the spring, and we learn from our
Chicago representatives that the tract
is already overSubscribed There is no
stock for sale. Every share has been
disposed of. We confidently expect
hat within the next year, Millard;
now known as Lynn Junction, will
have grown TO a town of no less than
1900 or 1000 inhabitants. The hotel to
be built Will be thing OF beauty from
an architectural standpoint, and it Will
contain every modern convenience
The tract will be treated exactly along
he lines that Twin Falls was.
iWc have been assured that the
Salt Lake Route will make Il number
of changes III their property, and that
several important additions will he
made by them. More houses for their
employees are needed. and these, we are
assured, Will be built in the near afu-
turc.
~ 3. Perrine Of Twin Falls fame.
Who owns the largest orchards in the
intcrmountain empire. and who is as
sociated in the Sewer River Land and
Water company with us. made the tour
Of inspection, but was forced to leave
us for Chicago, where he goes to at
tend the big irrigation convention, and
from there will go TO Pittsburg in
tho interests of our company. ,Mr,
Schcffel, who was one of the first set
tiers on the Twin Falls tract. and who
is promoting this present plan secured
the MilIard tract and water rights
largely through the efforts of Mr.. Per
rinc. This latter gentleman is as deep
ly imbued with tue possibilities Of the
tract as we are. and before leaving for
Chicago said that, with tho opening
next spring, the people would have
something Of unqucstionablc value
given them,
III may not be generally known. but
w $, Mccormick Of this city is a large
stockholder in The company, and Frank
Kimball. his cashier at Twin Falls. was
one of the first TO see into the future
Of this tract and the number Of homes
il sill add 10 our state.
"With Mr.. Perrinc, il is ovr inten.
tion to Immediately enter upon 10000
acres of this land and improve it by
setting out orchards and in numerous
other ways. -
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