The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-01
Government Engineers Decide on This Project
Active Operations to Begin at Once.
Cost Will Approximate 81 100000 $4,000 Acres of Land
Will Be Supplied With Wster-Utah Lake Scheme
Is Abandoned For the Present.

! SSISTANT CHfEF EN-

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/ A SSISTANT CHIEF ENGINEER
/ n II \. Savage and Consulting
! Engineer y. L. Davis Of the Unit
/ ed States reclamation department de
/ cided at meeting held yesterday aft
J ternoon at the office Of Engineer George
Z L. SWeudseu. who is i'm charge of the
reclamation department OF Utah, to
recommend the carrying out OF the
/ Strawberry, valley irrigation project
and the temporary abandonment Of the
/ Utah lake project.
Arrangements were completed at this
meeting Tor the survey for the project.
Engineer E A Keys and a corps of as
SiStautS were sent for at Washington.
d. c., TO take charge Of the field work
in the strawberry valley Steam drills
We're also ordered 10 be sent TO Utah
from New Mexico. and the work viii be
commenced in a short time.
Outline of the Project.
The Strawberry valley is to be made
( into "a reservoir site with d capacity for
: 100000 acre feet of water \ diversion
( dam fOTty-SiN feet i'm height and 1000
I feet in length is To be constructed in
/ the south eastern section of the basin
across the Strawberry river. \ tunnel
/ 10000 feet. or nearly four miles, i'm
/ length is 10 be drilled through the
7 " d'Ndtftt lllOuftt dtitC 6ttfitSt Gfft-t-fiN
/ east of Provo as an outlet To the re-
/ SerNOiT into Diamond creek. a branch
I OF the Spanish Fork river Diversion
} channels are to be constructed at the
mouth of the Spanish Fork canyon,
: which viii cover about $4,000 acres 6f
land in the Utah valley. Parallel ca
/ nails are to be COnstrD rVeT along the
/ southern slope of the Uiutah mountains.
/ interCoptinS the tributaries of the Du-|
J CheSnC river and carrying the water
/ into the Strawberry valley reservoir
The total cost is estimated by the en-
/ SiueerS at about Sf,G00 GOO
! Utah Lake Plan Dropped.
The decision was reached to drop FOR
I the present further investigations into
( the feasibility of the Utah lake project.
: IT il estimated that the completion of
/ the Utah lake irrigation scheme would
/ add only about 1000 acres To the land
! NOW under irrigation The engineers
( said that the Installation of another
pump by the Jordan River Canal com
! panIPS had iucTcaS ed the supply OF wa
. ter and had brought under irrigation
. al the available land i'm that inlmc-
/ dat" section that could be supplied
/ with water without costly construction
4 work
The strawberry project was an ont
] growth of the Utah lake iTriEa rion
I scheme whom il WAS found that tho
/ waters from the lake could not he
/ pumped to a high enough level TO dis
/ tribute the waters along the bench
lands The investigation work has been
/ going ON under the supervision Of Eli
/ EinceT George L. SU rUdScU TOr the last
( two years. and nearly 100000 has al
! ready been spent i'm making a general
/ survey of the country before the con
StIUrtl0u of the project would he con-
. sid"rod by the department of the in
/ terror
Land Owners Being Organized.
The work of organizing the land
/ owners INTO au association has been
. carried uu with marked interest Nr.
/ SWcndseU has the names Of about 400
+ land owners who have signed the ar
! ucleS of Incorporation presented by
/ tho department Of the interior This
/ represents about uue-half of the land
/ owned under the proposed project T-u-
! EinceTS savage Davis and SWcndSCn
/ met with the committee on the Straw
! berry valley project appointed by the
J land oWnerSe IN that section on We'd
/ ECsddy afternoon. and the following az
/ ticleS wer- agreed upon and signed i'm
/ regard 20 the existing requirements
made by the government
( An association should bc formed en-
J braclng all lrrlgator who take water
/ from Spanish Fork ana FaySou Spring
/ and SautaqUiU creeks
/ Every zigner of the articles Of in
/ corporation should pledge his entire lr-
/ TIgable area. and should surrender to the
/ association ali his water rights taking
/ i'm lieu thereof perfected rights to waters
! from Spanish Fork. Stra wbcrry valley.
/ or other sources. The terms OF such sur
/ render should be determined by the as
| ISOLATION.
/ $.-The association should acquire exist
! ing bitches 50 far as they may Ice neccS-
! SarN TO the enlarged project. and the
] right of way for ANY new bitches .neces-
{ sary.
] If the committee indicates its intention
/ of proceeding promptly and vigorously
| along these lines. the reclamation service
! viii push Investigations as rapidly as con-
/ diuons Will permit and make an estimate
I or cos. and RESULTS. with "a view to rec
! OfnmcndinE early construction. If AN nee
/ essary conditions of feasibility be ful-
(Sisued1 H. Lennon. Paysou Utah,
( J. :. McBeth. Paysou. Utah; J. > Page.
J jr-. PaySon. Utah. Iicber G. JoX. Span
| ish Fork. Utah; Committee Strawberry
] Valley.
| Sweudsen, Board Of Engineers
| These requirements were readily ac-
/ cepted by the committee The water
| rights of the land owners are TO be
| adjudicated and the interests of all
! the land owners viii be included under
! the irrigation project The land own
/ eTs who have not signed the articles
| Of incorporation have expressed them
! selves favorably to the scheme. and the
/ committee is now at work fling their
/ names and the amount Of irrigablC land
| owned by each.
Swendsen to Have Charge.
! It was decided that Engineer Keys
aud his staff of men should take
charge OF the field work in the Straw
( berry valley and that Engineer SWend-
| sen wiz be in charge Of the entire
| project After the survey is made and
| the costs of the construction estimated
] the contracts will be let. and the work
I viii be pushed decomposition as rapid
| ly as the conditions permit Engineer
| Davis stated last night that within not
more than four years he expected 10
| see the entire project completed. The