The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-13

Uttered among the settlements from
anada on the north 10 Mexico on the
lUth. numbers of whom we hope to
zee at our home coming.
Several men conceived the idea that
: would be profitable thing TO bring
me water from the Rio Virgin through
the mountain and on to the La Virken
Olpeh. which was done at a cost Of
10000. aud The town of La Virken
vas located. Soon after the people
who were living on the Rio Virgin
tulther Up the stream and who were
.osIEa part Of their land with every
.iuod sgU the necessity Of doing some
y inc 30 increaso their holdings, and
trcy decided 10 cons rUct a canal on
the opposite side of rhe river from the
In EiIksr caCal. which would be nine
uiles long. All OF the canal TO be con-
tr1etej on the side OF very steep
mountain. and III sor;c places almos.
fcrpeUGicular. il required ali the spare
time the people had for ten years to
build this canal and when completed
IT oost 100000. and today this canal
furnishes water for thc uew town Of.
Rurrican. which. with La Virken.' are
two OF The mos; prosperous towns in
the state of Utah
About the time the people began to
construct the Hurrican canal others Of
the people of Dixie. With sume of the
citizens Of Pine valley, Pinto and He
bron- decided TO place dam in the
box canyon in the ohosl Creek wash,
and by this means construct reser
voir 90 hold sufficient water TO irrlgate
2 large tract Of land on what is known
rs the Escalantc desert The people
being poor and having families 10 sup.
port as we'll as the land to buy, clear
ard fence, the work moved along rath.
er slowly, but today. having completed
the reservoir and canal, they can store
water enough 10 irrigate 5000 acres of
the finest land in the west and with the
water thNs stored. water that can be
used for some crops that require water
during the growing period, the state
bas demonstrated that drv land wheat
can be raised on the land without water,
as that has been proved on The state
dry farm located al Enterprise, the
new town built up as The result OF the
reservoir and canal. known as the En-
teTrrisc reservoir and canal
4 few years ago a few of the people
! of Pine VALLEY began the construction
Of new canal through which TO take
some of the water ont of the Clara
creek onto what is known Us Central.
where they have beoun the building
Of new town and which place prom
| ises to be one of the prosperous towns
! in the county. So in the last few
years there have been located four new
towns. all of which add to the valuation
of the states resources, furnish homes
! for thousands of residents and develop
new tracts Of the arid lands of the
| state.
Dixie contains about 5000 people, a
third of whom are of school age, and
most of them go to school, for il there
is one thing more than any other that
the people aim to do it is TO educate
their children. 1t was the foremost
thought when the pioneers entered the
St. George valley and today it is the
one thought we have before us
The people of ST, George have ex
pended 100000 in bringing a fine noun
taiT stream of water into the city and
have installed fine water system cost
ing s25 900, so that all the inhabitants
can have good pure mountain water
! piped into their homes; they have com
J pleted an electric plant by means of