Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-19
IRRIGATION PLAN
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Promoters Of Weber Project Is.
sue Book Explaining Purposes
OF the Organization.
OWNERS ENTITLED TO VOTE.
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OWNERS ENTITLED TO VOTE.
Some Provisions Of the Law Under
Which New District Will be
Formcd-High Endorsements.

Formcd-High Endorsements.
Another step forward towards the
eonsummation or one of the greatest
Irrigation projects ever attempted by
the people of Utah. has been made
by the Weber Reservoir Power and
Irrigation company in the issuance of
1000 copies of Il book explaining the
project so that the people of Davis
and Weber counties may be able to
vote intelligently in the formation
Of the proposed irrigation district.
With the. book has been issued 1000
copies OF letter telling briefly of
the struggles and failures of the past.
and inviting the people to take steps
TO form an irrigation districtinow that
The money Is in sight and success
n seems assured. The letter is signed by
the board Of directors, consisting of
& w. Fl. Rich, r. u Buffers, It. Il. Al
len. Nephi Sargent. A, C. Christensen.
"a henry Green. ]. g. NJ. Barnes
1ener j. Sheifteld and Joseph FL.
Grant 5s
The book Is sanctioned by the Cons
nercial clubs of BonntifuI Farming
ton Kaysville. Clearfield, and Weber.
as well as by the Ogden chamber of
E commerce, and contains full instruc-
lions regarding the formation of the
irrigation district, which requires the
approval of the county commissioners
who must satisfy themselves that the
petitioners for the organization of the
district represent the majority of the
landowners as we'll as the majority Of
the acres in the proposed district.
This done they Will call an election
al which each owner of land In the
Z proposed distriotsts entitled to vote
6 for or against its formation. one vote
for each acre owned. He also votes
for three directors, who. when elect
ed, are authorized by law to provide
the system for irrigating the lands OF
( the district, and to buy or build canals.
4 reservoirs. ETC. and to pay for them
by Issuing bonds Mt par, provided how
ever. before such bonds can legally
Il issue thes district directors must call
special election. the call setting forth
4 the amount Of the bond is
4 bonds are to be used. If q two-thirds
K majorityis In favor of bonds the is
4 sue will carry. The bonds are to
& draw 6 per- cent and mature in 20
years On the eleventh year their re-
urement begins by the payment Of
/. I'VE per cent of the total issue. On
the twelfth year g. per cent will be
paid and on the thirteenth year I
per cent. and 50 on until all the
bonds are paid off.
After the expiration of 20 years or
when the bonds have been paid off
! in full, the irrigation district which
up to that time has been under the
control of the three directors, may.
upon a majority vote at a especial cleo
ton be dissolved and the control
thereafter will be out in the hands
. of the owners of the land.
EXEMPTION OF LANDS.
The law exempts such lands as may
be already watered from other sources,
and such lands as in the Judgment Of
the county commissioners would not he
& benefited may be excluded, but all
lands within the proposed district which
are suitable for irrigation can not be
excluded, according to the opinion Civ
en- by Young & Snow, attorneys, IN
less the owner of lands in the district
can show to the satisfactionSDf the
county commissioners that they would
not be benefited by the project,
x The opinion Is also expressed by the
above firm of attorneys that there is
no legal reason why the landowners Of 4
Davis and, Weber counties cannot avail
themselves of the privileges of THU,
carefully prepared law with the cer-
tainty that under Its provisions their
rights will be fully safeguarded and
their financial interests promoted
WEBER RIVER DISCHARGE
Caleb Tanner, state engineer, is also
quoted on the discharge from the We
Der river, which he says exceeds
100000 acre feet annually.
For the period of 1904 to 1906. inclu-
slve, covering three years, the average
amount of water wasted from the COM
bined flow OF the Weber and Ogden
rivers, measured at the Plain City
bridge averaged $4,000 acre feet Az
suming that one-half of this quantity,
which Is doubtless far less than is prop
erly to be credited to the Weber. came
from the Weber water shed. 1t would
appear that $4,000 acre-feet of watcr
was wasted from the Weber river
rainage. This quantity of water hus-
banded in reservoirs and discharged 70
the present arid lands of Weber and
Davis counties is sufficient in my judg-
ment to reclaim $4,000 acres OF land.''
William NJ. Roylance also makes 4
statement to the effect that the section
around Clearfield and Roy is. in his
opinion, one of the best apple and peach
districts in the state, and the land
which it Is proposed to place under the
new canal is said to be just as good :
any now being cultivated
The promoters of the enterprise fell
Very sanguine that with the water
available for these lands the great sue.
cess that has attended the growing OF
fruits In Brigham City and North Or
den can be duplicated, and that in Il
few years much of these lands which
are now of nominal value only viii
be worth from $500 to St.5G0 an acre on
account of fruit possibilities.
OWNERS MAY ASSIGN WATER.
Two pages Of the book is devoted 10 a
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