The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-24
TUNNEL FROM
WEBER RIVER
gigantic irrigation Project Is
Planned For Davis County.
BIG COMPANY is ORGANIZED
IN CONNECTION WITH 81, ooo, 900
RESERVOIR CORPORATION.

a tunnel five miles long through the
mountains twenty miles north OF Salt
Lake City is being planned as part Of
one of the greatest irrigation proiects
IF Utah or the west. A corporation,
20 be known as the Davis County
Canal & Irrigation company, has been
organized to push to completion the
gigantic feat. which contemplates the
irrigation of from 10000 to $4,000 acres
Of farm land in Davis county. The
plan is an extension of the great
Weber county irrigation project, which
was formulated last October and which
now mas assumed definite shape un-
der surveys.
Incorporation of the Davis county
company will take place in the near
hiture Assurances have been received
Of S250OO0 of capital stock to be paid
up, and the Incorporation will be for
$500 900 or 81, 900 900. Following are the
directors. who were named at a meet
ing held in Pennington Thursday:
Hyrurn Stewart, Kaysville; o. P.
Hatch, Bountiful; william II. Streep-
err CenteryilIe; William N Nader.
I,syton: William /. Layton. Layton;
T. B. Clark, Pennington; Thomas b
Jones, Blaine; James Warren, Clear
field, and Nj. NJ. Brown, Woods Cross.
Flume Versus Tunnel.
1t was as an alternative to a prof
est OF constructing a great nlne-Hllle
wooden stave hume around the spur
that the tunnel idea was brought forth.
While the directors have not adopted
the tunnel plan. they are anxious TO
do so if the estimates they have as TO
fits cost are not too small. As reported
by O. p. Hatch to the meeting at
which the corporation was organized,
the tunnel would only cost $4,000 IN
connection with the channels needed
TO carry the water from the Weber
river to the top of the Davis county
sand hill. near John Hills ranch
As reported by Hyrum Stewart,
chairman of the committee on survey
Ing, the fiume and channels needed TO
bring about the same result would cost
1925 900. The opinion exists that the
latter estimate is the more conserva-
tive of the two, but the tunnel idea Is
more alluring to the projectors and
they are anxious to adopt it if the cost
is not too far in excess of that of the
fiume.
Not only would a tunnel be a work
of eternity and cost little for mainten-
Rnce, but IL would be an under
ground drain for the seepage of the
mountain range. This development OF
water underground frequently has sup
piled nearly as much volume as thai
received at the entrance of a tunnel
1t is said.
Will Irrigate From Sand Hill.
II constructed the tunnel would take
water out of the Weber river near Pc
tersOn in Morgan county and let it out
right on top Of the sand hill. The
f1ume which would be five miles long
would take the water from the pro-
posed ditch at Devils Gate. four miles
from where the river would be tapped
at Peterson. 1t would not reach thu
top of the hill, but a deep channe
would conduct it around. The opening
will be six feet wide through tunnel Of
fiume, whichever is constructed.
With reference to the land 10 bt
benefited. John H. Blood. chairman o
the committee on acreage. reported
that he had plated $4,000 acres which
could be reached by water from ditcl
at the top of the sand hill, and tina
there were two districts yet TO b.
heard from. He estimated the tota
area which would be benefited at abou
$4,000 acres. of which he estimates
5000 was virgin land, while the re
mainder was under more or less cult
walton.
Incorporation papers for the big 81.
100000 company organized last fall a
the Weber River Reservoir. Power 4
Irrigation company will be filed wit
the Morgan county clerk at Morgal
In short time, it is announced. Tn
company has organized with the fol
lowing officers and directory:
Moses w. Taylor, COalville. presi
dent; J. T. Thompson, Hooper, vic
president; T. L. Allen, CoaIviIle, sec
rotary; J. G. NJ. Barnes, Kaysvillt
treasurer; r. +. Egan. Woods Cross
Arthur Maxwell, Peoa; C. W
BramweU, Plain City: Isyma
Meacham, Milton; William H. RicI
Morgan.
Have Located Reservoirs.
Doremus & Kelsey, the engineers en-
gagged by the Weber River company
have advanced the surveys and plan
for the magnitudinous undertaking I
the point that il has been determine
where the Weber river headwater
viii be damned. The second reser
vOir VIII be near Peoa. while tn
higher dams will be near Kamas. /
Chalk creek, Lost creek and Har
Scrabble respectively, The capacity {
the reservoir viii be 500 cubic feet {
water a second for sixty days In a
1t viii furnish water TO 100. 600 acres c
which nearly half is in Davis count,
From the headwaters of the Webe
where the great reservoirs will be Il
Gated, 10 Peterson. where the create.
tap will be made in the interest Z
Davis county, is more than seventy
five miles by the river
Stock Will be taken in the Webe
river company by the Davis count
company, so the two organizations wi
be closely affiliated. In fact. the ex,
cution of either project would be pul
poseless without the prospective con
pletion Of the other