The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27


the water necessary to reclaim the area
segregated The first of these reservoirs
is situated near Mills on a branch of the
Salt Lake Route in Juab county. The
The water TO be stored In both these res
ervoirs is obtained from the Sewer river.
I Besides these projects. j. A. Faust and
others made application on March T. 1908
to have segregated under the Carey act,
1851 acres of land. also in M;llard county.
This application is now going through the
course required in order to receive tia ap-
prevail of the secretary of the interior
Private Enterprises Pushed.
Much has been done in the state during
the year by private enterprises. particu-
larry in Emery Carbon. Willard and
these undertakings is that of the Irrigat-
ed Lands company, which will have COM
pleted by the spring of 1909 works which
will irrigate an immense district in Car
bon county.
The first portion of the work was
opened few days ago. The new canal,
which is near Price will irrigate about
1900 acres. 1t obtains it's water from the
big Mammoth reservoir in the Gooseberry
valley fourteen miles from Fairview. This
reservoir, which is almost finished. is one
of the biggest in the country. The dam
is 100 feet high and the basin will contain
3, 900 acres of water. 1t is an earth fill
with a reinforced concrete wall, concrete
outlet tunnel and concrete valve tower 105
feet high, containing forty-five lift gates
The lands to be irrigated by this scheme
are said to be among the finest in the
state. They are within easy distance of
the thriving town of Price.
Big Gunnison Project
The big Gunnison project is another of
the great private promotion schemes
which will populate an immense tract.
The reservoir extends four miles along the
San Pitch river in Sanpete county and
covers an area of more than 1900 acres.
The reservoir was completely emptied on
Oct Is. 1908, for the purpose of enlarging
the rock tunnel which supplies the irri-
cation canals. Another reservoir belong
ing to the same project known as the
Highland reservoir, is located two miles
below the Gunnison reservoir. The water
for irrigation all over the valley is sure
and ample. There is a good supply of
water for domestic purposes from Willow
creek
The Abraham Irrigation company owns
10, 000-acre feet in the Gunnison Bend res
eryoir as well as other rights. This COM
pany will reclaim about 1000 acres in Mil
lard county about 1S5 miles southwest of
Salt Lake City. Its shipping outlet is at
the new city of BURNER on the line of the
San Pedro.
Old Deseret Company.
| One of the first organizations to set
about the reclamation of the waste lands
| of Willard county was the Deseret Irriga-
y,
activity 70 cover considerably larger
| tract of land. This company owns half
of the great Sewer bridge reservoir of
which the BURNER Irrigation Lands COM
pany. operating under the Carey act. pur-
chased the other half. The reservoir was
built by the Deseret company.
At Green River by irrigation work 70Oo
acres of land, some of il uneXcelIed for
| fruit growing. has been reclaimed Ex-
tensive work has also been done on the
Moapa valley project
At the beginning of 1907 J. A Edwards.
state auditor. reported that there were
| a total acreage of 2135. 900 acres of irri-
gated land. The three government re-
clamation schemes then covered 500 10
acres These figures have been greatly
| increased by the work on the various
schemes during the year 1903.
Best of Crops.
The best of crops can be raised on these
irrigated lands of Utah. The climate of
/ the great basin in which lies all of Utah
| is famous Summer is cool and the win
tiers pleasant Markets are convenient and
easily reached.
The extent to which scientific irrigation
/ Is being carried out is shown by the fact
that since the irrigation law became oper-
alive on May II, 1903, to the end of the
year 1908. there have been 1,2S7 applica-
/ tons at the office of the state engineer to
file on irrigation waters.
+. H. Newell chief engineer of the gov
eminent reclamation service, in one of his
reports says Of these irrigated lands of
Utah: The open range Of the arid re-
gion is capable of supporting one cow
! TO every twenty to thirty acres The same
land when watered and put in alfalfa win
| feed twelve COWS to every twenty acros
or in orchard in favorable attitudes viii
support family of three TO five persons.
An enormous enhancement in land values
| therefore attaches to the reclamation OF
/ these arid tracts; as an open range It's
value may be 20 cents acre. while I'M
I der irrigation the selling price may be
from so to $1,000 an acre"