The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-03
To EXPEND 100000
IN BUCKHORN VALLEY
Salt Lake Company Proposes
to Make Picturesque Fruit
Growing Park,
SOIL DECLARED RICH
Water VIII Be Conveyed III
Worlds Longest Siphon;
Scenery Pronounced Grand.
|SOlL DECLARED RICH

The Buckhorn Fruit Lands company
and the Ariel Fruit Lands company
are two new enterprises in Utah The
two companies in reality are one, so
far as the purposes Of the promoters
are concerned
The announcement is that the new
companies have nothing for sale-no
stocks. no bonds, no lands. Later they
may have all Of these for sale, espec.
ially lands.
Articles of Incorporation of the two
companies were filed yesterday. The
Buckhorn company is capitalized at
100000 in shares of 500 each, L.
A, Merrill is president; Lloyd Sigler,
vice president; Joseph j. Cannon. sec
retary and treasurer; Olean Stohl and
A. b. Irvine. additional directors. The
Ariel company has a capitalization OF
100000. in shares Of 81. The officers
are D. H. Parke, president; Benjamin
Rich, vice president; Samuel w. Tay-
lor, treasurer; Samuel Y Taylor, sec
retary; Lloyd Sigler and A. B. Irvine,
additional directors.
Backed by Millionaires.
These two organizations are the ones
in whose names the big project will
be conducted, but they are not the real
interests behind the undertaking. The
tional Savings & Trust company, of
which l.. N. Stohl is president and
Lloyd Sigler is manager. Associated
with these are w. S. Mccormick, M .
H. Walker. c. W. Nibley, C. s. Burton,
Rodney T. Badger, Fl. P. Clark, James
Pingree of Ogden and Francis NJ, Ly-
man.
Prof. L A. Merrill has "ex-
ported the Buskhorn project,
'the best fruit land in the world
not only in the United states-in the
world. -
Picturesque Valley.
acres of land. the soil of which
is said to be 1000 feet deep. For pic.
turesqueness the valley and is surround
ings are said to be unsurpassed; for
grandeur of scenery they have few
equals, There is an abundance of tim
ber nearby, is the report,
EThe National Savings & Trust com
pany," said Mr.. Sigler last night,
g bought the land from John w. Tay-
lor for $50, ,000-$150, 900 in real mon
ey The project we have under con-
sideratlon will call for the expenditure
Of S700,000. 1t will not be reclama-
tion project The land will be laid
out in the form Of park by one of
the most renowned landscape architects
Of the United States, Mr.. Anes of
Boston.
Worlds Biggest siphon.
"We will get our water from the
Huntington river. bringing it to the
reservoir by means of a siphop. the
longest In the world The siphon will
be 10000 feet in length and six feet
in diameter. IT is the intention to
build branch railroad to the Buck
horn, There is already a grade there
-tbe old grade of the Rio Grande
western. This we propose to utilize
Denver & Rio Grande at Wellington. .
New Farm Lands.
The ARIEL project includes those
higher lands above the Buckhorn-farm
lands largely. 1t is the belief of the
promoters that there will be availa BILE
for the Ariel ample water for the irri
cation Of two large tracts. The Buck.
horn valley, however, will be the FIRST
to receive attention; later the Ariel
will be taken care of.
1t IS the enthusiastic belief of all
those interested in the Suckhoru en-.
terprise that the valLy will, within q
few years. become the home of inc
most ar1stocratic fruit farms in the
world,
Mr., Sigler will leave tonight for the
scene of activities. He will be ac
companied by G. A. Tush. noted as the
engineer who built the great irrigation
| works of the Twin Falls district; C.
a. Kramer, chief engineer for the Ma
tlonal Savings & Trust company. and
Mr- Strain, chief engineer for the Buck
horn company.
According to Mr. Sigler, the engineers
VIII be on the work for year or a
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