Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-01
v,,s Meeting Held at Farming
ton Approves Big
Project.
PLANS ARE MUCH FAVORED
...s,rs Declare Themselves for
ReOeats Which WIN Accrue TO
Farm Owners.

n. sryt meeting Of the farmers Of
,.g,s and Weber counties in connection
-, the proposed Weber reservoir,
.uy,r and irrigation project, which was
IA Yesterday afternoon at Lagoon,
.s.a successful one from every stand
,o,ot There was an attendance of
,,ob.by 1900 landowners and others
,,,,rssted in the irrigation project. who
u,,sned to speeches in its favor by a
,,mher Of leading citizens Of the state,
,r,udlng Gov. Spry. When, at the
,lose Of the meeting, an expression was
.oogbt from those present on the adj
,issbaity Of forming an irrigation dis
,rist under the law passed by the last
legislature and turning over the con-
s,rIctlon OF the project 10 c. c. Shep-
srs and associates Of Chicago, at
cost az 1925 per acre. the large majority
~ ,hoss present declared themselves In
favor OF doing so.
The principal business transacted
was The appointment of a committee of
time 10 draw up petition 20 the
~ counties. asking that the new irri-
S,lon district be formed and the land
X designated This committee was Sc
lscted by another committee whom
chairman Joseph H. Grant was au-
tho-ized by resolution TO name, which
consisted Of the following John s
White. president. Nephi Palmer. secre-
tary Of the Pennington Commercial
club: ] G VI Barnes, president, and
Henry Blood, secretary, Of the Kays-
vile Commercial club: A. r. Haywood,
president and l. L. Reynolds. secre-
tary. Of the Weber club, Ogden: W NJ
Bostaph president, and Horace s. Eos
ter secretary. Of the ogden Chamber
of Commerce. Charles r. Maybe, presi-
dent and VIII G. Carr, secretary. OF the
B1mtiful Commercial club. I. ]. Stok-
er presdent. and II. f Smith, secre-
nr. q the Clearfeld Commercial club.
They named as the committee OF
three Angus T. Wright OF ogden, T. ].
ststd Of Clearfield and David Stoker OF
Bountiful and the nominations were
confirmed.
STORMS NO HINDRANCE.
The gathering was considered sue
cessful by the promoters Of the project
as the afternoon was far from ideal
for travelling The train from Saf
Lake encountered a very heavy rain
storm and numbers Of farmers who
were waiting az 1oints on the road
were pretty well soaked when they
boarded the train. which however,
did not appear TO damper their ardor.
Tho meeting was advertised 10 start
at .. m. but the Ogden train was
DELAYED and the start was not made
before S.30 The interval was pleasant
" filled in with selections nv the I'm
perial quartet which Is composed OF
Thomas Ashworth. Fred Graham.
Victor Christopherson and Willard
Spuires. John r. Meaken also instruct
cd and entertained with some OF his
lomted stories ending with the rect
lauon Of Joaquin Millers sail on
Leo J. NUN also told a story to IL
iustrate excessive caution and appli-
ca u yery nicely to the project before
tne people He also recited the poem
Jim, who always had future in
front OF him, and also applied IL to
tne people OF Davis county and their
ara lands In a way that called for
80" tiic ARRIVAL OF the nOthern
uain and its large crowd OF landown-
s ~ me kaysville band played a selec-
~ ~ al.er which J. NJ Barnes in
osNSu OF the Commercial clubs nam
the meeting. '''''
SESSION is BEGUN.
-, M Grant expressed pleasure that
pyIueh which he and others had
he ~ Tor nine years was about TO
a.. '"nen UP by the people. ana in a
wen chosen words Introduced
talk follows: '-O'e
4. sec since coming here the snh-
Ject assigned me is the nputidi, -
sfesl state a subject which 'is as
uio1l as the state itself. when We
e ~ ,,er that the rsources Of the STATE
~ van are as great as anv four atates
he Union IL will be seen how Mo
.ir,N DIoJeet Tor five minute talk
"a ~ vas my privilege recently 10 20
20, Doh county. where j purchased
fssa prospect ] went into the noun
fect Goo ieet and was In a vein 1s
n vP Inc same coal vein A said
v,tt.'nu 70 miles on this land
ssiS comprised 1880 acres there Is
an 40 70 De 250.oOO,O0O tons OF coal
eos , '1 nay IS only a small part Of Utah's
nssa deposits In addition 10 coal 7
On irI not tell you OF the great denosits
~ ron and minerals V7'''
ORE D n.'. mining company is senaing
h ~ u, Of Bingham every dav whtcb
linz 80, CaIs carving II were placed IN
ione TN make a train five miles
bins Of ~ u, company Is paying freight