The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-11
RESERVOIRS PLANNED
FOR TWO CANYONS
Proposal to Double Acreage OF
lrrigable Land in This
Vicinity.
TO COST MANY MILLIONS
Store Flood Waters of Provo
and Weber Rivers Until
Needed.
TO COST MANY MILLIONS

Business and professional men or SAT-
, Lake City are invited 10 attend o meeting
10 be held at the Commercial club at /
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon, when plan
TO omen 20 cultivation an immense area
OF irrigahle land tributary TO this city
and Ogden will be presented. The Ee"-
tlemen who are interested In the PROPOSE
Z ton. desiring TO he conservative, say
that their plan will double the acreage
or irrigable land tributary TO Salt Lake
and Ogden. More roseate estimates put
the acreage at far above this amount
Briefly stated, the plan is TO build i'm.
mense storage reservoirs IN Provo ana
Weber canyons IN which the flood waters
may bs impounded. TO be released as
needed IN nourish the growing crops
Enough water. !, is stated; goes 10 waste VAST,
more than irrigatc the 100000 acres OF
land. now arid for lack OF available Wa
ter In existing systems. lying between
Ogden on the north and Provo ana CedAr
valley the south.
While the men who have been working
on the plan do not promise 10 supply
this entire acreage they believe that the
water Is available and flows through the
channels or the two rivers ench year.
They content themselves At present with
the assurance that AT least 10000 acres
may be brought under cultivation. and
the plans are unduly Delayed.
Has Been Fully Investigated.
This scheme Is the outcome OF inves-
legations that have been carried on by
citizens during a considerable number
OF years. and more recently by the Utah
conservation commission. Among the
most active in working out the details
have been T. r Cutler md William r.
Wallace Of Salt Lake and Thomas l.
Allen of Coalville. These men have fg-
tn ba nj ,f tbn ab
Conservation company. a corporation
formed to develop the plan outlined. 1t
Is hoped that practically every citizen Of
prominence in Salt Lake and ogden as
well as Of other cities in the territory
interested. Will become q stockhoidar in
the company. as tho intention is as
much 10 build up the country Us to make
dividends for the stockholders.
The men now Interested and others
who have been approa ched believe that
with proper showing OF co-ope ration bv
easily carried 10 triumphant success.
Both cities arc equally Interested as both
Will profit by the project. II carried 10
completion.
Nature Has Made Provisions.
Tho reservoir in Provo canyon will be
al Deer creek and In Weber canvon. be-
low Peoa. Both sites have been care
fully examined by competent engineers
and at both nature has provided for large
reservoirs which can be made absolutely
safe. Both OF these reservoir sites have
been filed on and are now tho property
OF the COMPANY Similarly the flood
waters of the Provo and Weber rivers
have been filed on as required BY law.
Tn TO the present time the members Of
The company have expended about $4,000
In thelr preliminary investigations.
which have demonstrated the feasibility
Of the enterprise.
While the company has been organized
the organization is but temporary and
the intention is for the stockholders TO
choose their own officers soon the
full list OF stockholders has been made
up. The compsnys capital Will be 800,
000. subscriptions for three-fourths OF
which will be asked. The entire cost OF
the enterprise NAV be anywhere from
s.. 600 900 10 0,000. 900, depending on the
extent OF the acreage OF land that NAV
be brought into the proposition.