The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-19
FT|NC WATER
|DR THE LANDS
ping Plants on West Shore
of Utah Lake Are
Valuable.
IDLY SOLVING
IRRIGATION PROBLEM
Areas Now Being Irrigated
BY a Very Simple
Process.

Ia 10 The Tribune.
LII, June 1.-THE west shore of
lake is rapidly solving one of
biz irrigation problems by elevat'
xater onto the heretofore barren
s hy means of pumps. Yesterday,
. Cooley took a ty-horsepower
Inc engine and Byron Jackson
<ifugal pump to his ranch just
+ of Pelican Point where he will
lie 800 acres with water pumped
Utah Lake. BY constructing a
line about 300 feet long he will
It's the water eighty-five feet and
With a gravity canal carry the
d over practically the whole of
6esert entry of $50 acres. Mr.
sv has erected comfortable bung"
on the beach and is preparing 10
sxtenBively into the farming and
faising business.
w. Ball who owns sixty-acre
two miles south of Saratoga,
uenced his pump going this week
has small gasoline engine and a
rifngal pump elevating water out
Ie lake through siX-inch pipe.
w. Gates, Salt Lake hardware
has ordered a pump and in a few
y will have it irrigating bis 100
ranch about midway down the
side of the lake.
Gardner Is Busy.
|rther north County Commissioner
es H. Gardner has an up-to-date
|ine pumping plant with which he
|igating twenty acres of apples and
va of grain and alfalfa. He also
b windmill with which he elevates
b into a big tank and irrigates a
acre peach orchard, Mr.. Gardner
about $50 acres, all of which he
IDS to irrigate by means OF q
hing system. He has a big herd
Des, about 1000 chickens and lot
title. though ultimately be intends
pend most of his efforts In fruit
ng. His ranch evidently was q
1zvous for the early Indian tribes
& men have found quite q number
Dlics such as stone mills for grind
grain into coarse flour, etc. He
sfore has named his place the
vince Fruit Farm
B. and H. l.. Jones. two brothers
civil engineers, have filed home
Is on the lake front and are build
comfortable homes. They have
based traction engine and plow;
which they will clear theil
hes and then use the engine TO op
pump with which TO irrigatt
lands. They have purchased L
pump and filed on three
nd feet of water out of Utah lake
Other Plants.
le Saratoga Springs ranch has hat
ps in operation for several years
the management declares that the
riment is decided success. They
ate three small pumps with elec
motors A few years ago their hot
ngs flowed enough water to irri
4 but 100 acres. BY placing thu
ps in the springs and lowering then
feet the supply is trebled aud they
irrigate 300 acres.
III, Alfred s. Sons, who have owned
act of land west Of Jordan river fo1
|Y years, seeing the success o,
rB last month, installed gasoline
ne and pump and are now success
+ irrigating field of grain and
3 beets from q pond which year:
ceased to supply water by gravitl
|use Of parties digging flowing
4 on lower ground
aides these private PUMPING
Ita there are the big pumps in th
-. i L
9r per second from the lake, anc
plant at .Mosida clevating thirty
cubic feet per second from 60 t,
feet high and irrigating 5000 acres
nen there are number of othe
|eets in the course of developmen
+ which will bring under irrigation
|aFds Of 10000 acres of land alto
ref, making the vicinity of Lehi
n interesting field for the study o
*atlon by means of pumps,