The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-14
BEAR RIVER CANAL.
Receiver Rowe viii Make Number
of improvements.


Receiver Rowe, of the Bear Lake
and River Waterworks and Irrigation
company is making preparations for
the commencement of a number of ex-
tensive improvements in the Bear
River canal system and just as soon
as the necessary negotiations reach a
successful issue the work will be en-
tered upon. Already there is great in
quiry regarding the lands lying under
the canal system and the indications
are that when the season opens there
will be a heavy influx of outside set
tiers
Speaking of the appointment of a
receiver for the canal system the Irri-
cation Age, in its last issue, says:
1.-The responsible management of the
great Bear River canal system in Utah
has recently passed into the hands of
William H. Rowe, of Salt Lake city
This is an event of much Importance
to Northern Utah and of interest to
the irrigation world at large. The
Bear River works are among the most
costly and substantial in the west
They represent a feat of considerable
daring, both from a financial and an
engineering standpoint. But it has
been Illustrated in this case, as in
many another that it is one thing to
fconstruct splendid works and another
thing to develop the property and turn
the assets, consisting of land and
water, into gold
THE selection of Mr.. Rowe as presi-
dent and manager of the enterprise
meanss that an effort is now to be
made in a practical way The choice
is perhaps the very best that could
have been made from among all the
captains of the irrigation industry.
The confidence of the local public and
an intimate acquaintance with the his
tory and character of the country
were in this instance just as import
ant as eminent ability in the art of
irrigation and the business of promot-
| ing colonization. Mr.. Rowe knows
Utah thoroughly, and, in greater de-
gree than any other man, he possesses
the confidence of both the Mormon and
Gentle elements in it's population.
He knows irrigation as a practical
thing at home, and he knows it equally
well as student of literature and his
tory. For years he has been an as
siduous collector of books, phamphlets.
and other printed matter. and he has
about the best irrigation library in the
country The study of this literature
has been his passion. It would seem
that he had been unconsciously fitting
|
sumed. The Age predicts his entire
success in the work of colonizing the
lands and developing, to the highest
degree, the possibilities of the small.
diversified farm.
MI. Rowe has for several wears
been the assistant superintendent of
lions Cooperative Mercantile Insti
tuition, which does an annual business
of over $4,0OOOOO.
THE lands of the Bear River Jrriga-
ton company are among the best in
the inter-mountain region, and pro
duce everything in. the line of farm.
garden and deciduous fruit crops. They
are in the neighborhood of Brigham
city, Honeyvil,e, Deweyvi1le and VIII
| lard city on the east, and the MaIad
valley on the west Brigham CITY
alone averaged eight hundred cases of
fruit per day during the season of
! 1893 Thirty acres sown to alfalfa pro-
duced eight tons to the acre the second
season. and the wheat record is forty
! seven bushels to the acre
With such material to work upon
as this and with his splendid equip
ment of knowledge and experience. Mr.
Rowe may be expected to make of this
enterprise one of the most striking
successes in the field Of irrigation. The
age may present fuller particulars of
the project at later day