The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-06
Bic LAND DRAWING
FOR SEWER VALLEY
Opening of Immense Tract in
April Attracting Attention
of Many Settlers.
CAREY ACT REGULATIONS
FOR ALLOTMENT OF LAND
Commercial Club Committee to
Visit Tract and Report on
Enterprise.

Homeseekers who are watching for
an opportunity TO get some OF the best
Of Utah's unsurpassed farm and fruit
lands are watching and waiting for the
Carey act drawing, to he held by the
Sewer River Land and Water com
many, April H. There is tract OF
10000 acres Immediately available Tor
cultivation. and arrangements have
been made for committee OF the board
of governors of the Commercial club TO
visit this tract the latter part of the
present week. Original plans for TINS
irip were to start from Salt Lake last
night and to return Monday morning:
but excessive rains in the Vlclnltv OF
Lyndvl made IT advisable to postpone
the trip for a few days.
Tho Sewer River Land and Water
company originally bought 10000 acres
and then an additional 100000 acre feet
Of water was bought from original hold
ers. so that the company now mas
enough water TO supply $4,000 acres oil
land. Then the company found by gaug
jng the stream that 100000 acre feet
sf water was annually going to waste
and it Immediately filed on reservoir
sites and applied for a Carey act segre"
cation of POO, 600 acres OF land on both
sides of It's holdings. This gave the
company a tract of more than 100000
acres of desirable fruit and grain land,
which will eventually come under cul-
aviation,
Townsite Laid Out.
In preparing for the land opening
the company has laid out q townsltc
of 900 acres at Lvnndyl, formerly Lynn
junction. on the Salt Lake Route, and
an experiment and demonstration
Isrm. under the management Of irrIga-
b,u Ia1 &c
across the river from the new town
site.
In laying out this townsite, provi-
sions for future growth have been made
by acreage tracts around the edge,
which can later be subdivided. Three
blocks have been reserved for park
purposes and two blocks for schools.
and lot will be furnished free TO
each religious denomination which Will
erect church building. In the busi-
ness district of the new town the COM
uanv has already erected an office
building costing $4,000 and a $4,000
hotel and fine bank building will
he erected this spring, besides several
residences and business blocks. Ce-
mcnt sidewalks Will be laid in the four
blocks destined to become the business
district of the town and trees will be
planted in the residence streets and
along the boulevard which circles the
townsite.
Land for the demonstration and OK
pertinent farm is being cleared now and
crops of all kinds, including fruits. will
bc planted this spring. This plan is
in line with the successful operation
Of the demonstration farm operated in
connection with the Twin Falls, Ida,
project and other successful features
of the Twin Falls land opening will be
followed in Sewer River valley,
The plans of the company provide
that water for irrigation shall be deliv.
cred on the tract on or before April
II. 1911. Purchasers of land are to
be required TO build a house costing
al least 800 within six months after
water is available for irrigation, and
within the same period the purchaser is
required TO plant at least one-eighth
of his land TO a useful crop Aside
from the improvements, residence on
the ground is not required. These re-
auiremenis are practically the same as
those necessary TO obtain title under
he Carey act, and their success has
been demonstrated in the Twin Falls
country.
Alex Mcpherson, representing the n,
J.. Hollistcr company Of Chicago, who
colonized the Twin Falls district has
opened Offices in the Newhouse building
with the local Offices Of the land com
many