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611 TOPAZ {arbor, December ,'cd war on Japan , were then living ocated away from sof various state, ccomodatc. several I. This land must period of the war Iclp produce part ses must also be nt advertised for ,'ojects offered. raham holdings in f 14 iith water, M.. ~ County, the Abraham and It 'the holdings he an ideal locatIon 'nited States army rtaining just what Igs wcre just what Ivitt'd to make an . American Legion Post 89 of :Delta held a memorial at Topaz for 10 Niese who had lost their lives in World War II. At that time 500 Japanese from Topaz were serving in the armed services. Left to right: Randall Swensen, Joe Fidel, Mansel Warnick, William Killpack, Fe,n ton Gardner, George Cahoon, Roy p , Hilton, Harold R.Morris and a Japanese (name unknown). Purchase contracts werc . made directly with the owners, and contrary to public opinion, not one cent of profit was made on the sale of either land or water, cxcept the increascd value that was secured on the water and land every cent of which went to the owners, who sold either land or water: (This was from a letter writen by Nels L. Peterson to Mrs, -Erma Petcrson in 1950.) . ct two government lpanese Relocation ~ J. P!'terson, acting aham, who was a 'ded to investigate General Couzzins 19ton that he had lace about 10,000 lalf million dollars on the Ingraham to complete the ase without. Thcre Ingraham interest.. ,nd and raising the igation Companie~. Fntativcs when th:.! by the appraisers. ~ I' In one swt'ep, as in the e~r1y days of drouths people were leaving their farms, only this time most of them moved their houses into neighboring communitics. As soon as the government had secured all the property needcd, U. S. army officials from Fort Douglas, Utah werc appointed to oversee the building of this project. Captain Dryer, who had charge of getting this work started, was sent .to Delta. The first thing was to decide where would be the best location to build the main part of Topaz, as it was later named. A site was finally selected which was three and one-half mile~ to the northwest of the Abraham townsite. Six hundred and forty acres were selected from the site, part of which were once owned by E, J. Bichler, Maurice Fuchs, and Dalton Reid; but owing to water conditions hadn't been farmed for some time. Wceds and brush were growing abundantly so the land had to bt' brush railt'd and leveled. Junc 28th Captain Dryer contacted John Nutsch, to bring in his equipment and start railing. Herald S. Peterson, who had been working for the Nutsch brothers, and Raymond Nutsch started at once to rail and level the land.