The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-09

TO- By reason of the fact that the au-
thorities upon irrigation differ as TO the
duty or service of water, your commit
tee have had some difficulty in reach
ing a conclusion as to the amount of
water that should be delivered upon
the land to successfully and profitably
irrigate the same After a careful con
sideration of the question, and taking
into consideration the character of the
soil to be irrigated, your committee are
OF the opinion that one acre foot of
water, actually delivered on the land,
is sufficient to irrigate an acre of land.
In reaching this conclusion, your COM
mlttee has taken into consideration
the fact that a part of the land would
be permanently used for streets, road
ways, building lots and yards, and some
land would be allowed to rest each sea-
son, and in this way from 20 to SO 1-3
per cent of the land proposed TO be
irrigated would be idle each season.
II. Reporting upon the application of
the Lake Bonneville Water and Power
company, your committee is of the
opinion that the reclamation of the
land applied for by the said company,
as amended by the report Of this COM
nittee, can be secured by means OF the
system proposed.
u. From the report of the department
of the interior. of measurements made
of the flow of the Sewer river. at Lean
ington, during the years 1S90-1-2-3, your
your committee finds that the average
annual flow of said river at said point
for the period of four years, was $751;,
625 acre feet.
Your committee is of the opinion that
there will be a loss of SO 1-3 per cent
OF the said amount of water by eVap-
Grafton and percolation from the time
the water was stored up to its de-
livery on the land. After making such
deduction, this would leave the amount
of water that might be delivered upon
the land proposed to be reclaimed, 234,
416 acre feet.
Your committee is, therefore, of the
opinion that there are sufficient water
rights vested in the said company, to-
gether with the unappropriated water
in its source of supply, to reclaim 234,-
416 acres of land.
This conclusion is reached without
making any deductions for vested water
rights used below the proposed lower
dam. From evidence submitted, your
committee is of the opinion that there
will be sufficient water returned to the
river channel from seepage, waste
water and other sources, to supply such
vested water rights.
49, Your committee is of the opinion
that the capacity of the proposed works
of the said company is adequate to re-
claim the lands described in its applica-
ton
Il The engineering details of the pro-
posed reservoir dams and canals of the
Lake Bonneville Water and Power
company, are not sufficiently completed
to enable your committee to make a
close estimate o. the actual cost of
construction, or of the annual cost of
maintenance.
Your committee is of the opinion that
the estimated cost of construction is a
reasonable engineers preliminary esti-
mate, and that the proposed charge for
water right is reasonable.
Your committee is of the opinion that
the proposed charge for annual main
tenance tax is unreasonable, and haV-
ing so notified the said company, they
have made a supplemental proposal, as
follows:
To charge each person, purchasing
land under their system. for the first
five years OF his contract, S1.50 per
contract, $1.25 per acre. and thereafter
| 81 per acre as the maximum annual
charge for maintenance.
H. Your committee is of the opinion
that the lands proposed to be irrigated
by the said last named company. are
desert in character, and such as would
be properly set apart under the pro-
visions Of the Carey act and the regula-
tons of the department of the interior
hereunder.
16. Upon the protests of ]. p. Chris
tenson and the citizens of Fayette
against the Lake Bonneville Water and
Power company flooding their land by
water stored in the proposed reservoir.
your committee is of the opinion that
this question is one to be settled be-
tween the protestants and the said