The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-12

| makes no QluerenCo prdCJlCally 10 GHe pSO-
pie of Utah where the organization is made !;
the Utah law requires that any outside
corporation doing business here shall az
point an agent or representative who, in
the eyes of the law, is the same as the com
pany.
Locally, the management of all depart
ments of the company will be in the hands
of men who have long been residents of
| this territory The work of organizing the
departments has already made considerable
progress. For instance: A local man has
been chosen to take charge of the matter of
water rights and rentals; another is hand
ling the matter of right of way, and ar
rangements are under way for handling the
real estate interests of the company.
What is the present status Of the pre-
liminary work?
Originally the project was confined to the
west side Of Bear river, and surveys were
made with view to taking out the water
on that side of the canon and carrying 1t
westward across the Malad; thence south
| erly along the foothills to the lake west OF
! Little Mountain. A pretty thorough study
| of the situation developed the fact that
this would only be partial utilization OF
| the magnificent possibilities of this great
! BODY of water The intention now Is to
run the water also down along the foot
! hills of the Wasatch range to Brigham
oity, Hot Springs and Ogden. The cross
| ing of Bear river was an alternative plan in
the canon, so that the engineers are now
making a survey and location on the cast
| erly side of the canon.
We have finished all the plans, specifica-
tons and estimates of the west side scheme
and if that were the only plan of proceeding
we would now be ready to go ahead with
the contractors; but this viii probably be
deferred until the alternative route on the
easterly side has been located and esti-
mated upon.
What arrangement do you think the com
pany will be able to make with land owners
and settlers as to water rights and right Of
way!
There will be no trouble about that. The
company.occup perfectly Independent
position. The surveys show that the land
under the canals is nearly double the
amount that the water will supply. There
are at least one hundred thousand acres
that cannot be watered. The water supply
! is enormous. but the amount of irrigable
! land in the district described is wonderful:
so that if the land owners in one section DO
not want water it will be carried to another
section.
What part of the work do you propose to
| begin first?
! We think it is now safe to say that the
canon work and the side hill work viii be
done during the present season. This is
the hardest part of the work, and brings
the water onto the prairie. The only ques
! ton is which side of the canOn we will take
What about the prairie work.
That is covered all over with questions
! Whether we will go to the east or to the
west. or how far in any direction, it is i'm
possible to say now. The first seven miles
! is the key note TO the whole situation. With
that done the company can take its choice
as to where 1t will carry water, for there
are two customers to every one it can sup
| ply.
How much money will the work cost!
In reply to this question Mr.. Boutwell,
handed the reporter the vOluminous type
written report of James D. Schuyler, the
consulting engineer of the company. Mr..
! Schuyler's reorganization OF all the work
foots up 81, 100000.
Does your company anticipate any diff
Guilty in tinanceeriHg the scheme
| The best answer to that is the reply of
! Scipio Africanus to the committee of the
Roman senate, who were investigating him
on charges of extravaganza. He told
| them that success in war depended on the
| thoroughness of the preparations" The
| only problem in tinanceering this scheme
Is to build up the security so thoroughly
| that there can be no question as to the
| soundness of the bonds when they come
upon the market. This work, in a case of
| this sort, is harder than in the usual we'll
| huOWu lines u INV CSGLltIl, DCNduSC III
| ton securities are almost unknown east,
and have no standing. But we are salts
fed that we have got over all that trouble,
and viii show a security of such unqueS
| tionable sOundness that the money Will be
| quickly available.
Pro. Elwood Mead, one of the best au-
thorities on irrigation in the west, came
here about a fortnight since. and made are
port on the project in which he says: The
land forms the finest body of irrigatable
lands have ever seen and doubt if there
is superior body of land to be found On
the continent" and in conclusion he says:
lon the whole it is the most important and
promising irrigation enterprise of which
have any knowledge"
James D. Schuyler, OF California, who is
| eminent among engineers Of ability, eX-
perience and reputation, concludes his re
| port as follows: OF the future of the enter
| prise, when successfully completed, there
| can be no doubt. For thirty years past the
settlers have looked with longing eyes to-
ward Bear river, flowing through the
greatest and finest body OF unirrigated, I'M
| titled land in the territory, the largest
stream in all the arid region, undiminished
by diversion, untrammeled byyested rights
of prior appropriations, or riparian owners
| throughout the entire length. You are most
| fortunate in basing you enterprise upon a
| stream whose conditions are so unusual.
Your water supply comes to you free from
all legal complication. Your apprOpria-
ton will injure no individual, but will
| bestow a benefaction upon an eager
and expectant community. l cannot
close without referring to the vast
water-power which may be developed in
the ordinary course of your distribution.
There will be power everywhere. At
every drop-gate on the central branch there
will be from two hundred and fifty to three
hundred horsepower; at the head of al
most every main lateral there will be
available power to be utilized, and at at
least two points you may have from fifteen
| hundred TO two thousand horse power
This utilization of this great latent force
distributed over the region in which flow
the canals must inure largely to the wealth
and prosperity of the coming population.
First District Court.