The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-12

and eventually Fillmore had to rclin-
quish the capital to Salt Lake. City.
Nov, Millard county is coming into
her own
Many attempts have been made to
chain the Sewer river. The most am
bilious recent effort failed, again from
the lack of sufficient capital TO ac-
complish properly the desired end. In
recent years earth dams in the Sewer
| river have been washed out by the
floods. Within the year, however, the
contract made by the state with the
Delta Land and Water company to
complete the great irrigation project
under the terms OF the Carey act has
| been productive of the present results.
| The Sewer bridge reservoir, located
about forty miles up the stream from
Delta has been III existence for seVeral J
wears 1t Is solldly constructed and
it has withstood all the attacks OF
floods.
Part Of the project entered into By
the contract with the state has been 70
raise this dam to store II greater
the vicinity Of Delta would always he
provided with An ample supply NJ
ready there is water at hand 10 supply
$4,000 acres under this PROJECT, and
within a wear the work on the raising
of this dam will be completed.
Great Diversion Dam.
| Recent work has centered in the dl-
version dam which is now completed
| This has been constructed under the
supervision of the consulting engineer
who installed the Twin Falls works
and is attracting attention IN the en-,
gincering world FOR its unusually solid
construction.
Before entering into the construc
tion of this dam. the engineers ey
plored the bed of the Sewer river fol
miles by the use OF churn drills aut
studied the formation of the GROUND
thoroughly They finally picked a sit
about five miles above Delta, wher,
one of the strongest concrete dams II
the world has been built. The con
structiou is of concrete, reinforced
with 52-pound steel rails and steel rod
and concrete mesh. The length is l0
feet and the depth at this point is tel
feet. Here the rush of the waters I
checked by this solid wall, and TIL
flood is turned into the main canals
there TO flow through various channel
over all the land.
: On the first OF November, approx
matclv 100 miles Of canals and lateral
: with concrete headgates and copcret
, drops had been completed, aud b
spriuptimc the water will have bee
brought TO SO 900 acres of land.
OF this amount l5,OOO acres are no'
being thrown open 10 settlement by tn
National Savings 4 Trust company an
it is expected that the entire area vii
he sold by the first OF the year.
Alfalfa Seed Center.
And now comes Salt Lake City as tn
t great alfalfa seed market of the worl'
/. Chicago may be the headquarters fo
4 wheat and oats; New Orleans for cot
Z ton and Los Angeles for oranges, bu
4 the bringing into cultivation Of 1870
: acres Of alfalfa seed land means th
r fixing of Salt Lake City as the marke
for tins product.
g The greater portion of the new sc
: tiers who aro going into Delta arc pre-
Q pairing to make speciality of the cult
e vation Of alfalfa seed. II has bee
established by tho experts Of th
0 United States agricultural departmer
l that no place in the world is bette
!. adapted TO the cultivation of alfalf
: seed than Millard county. Alfalfa
!" becoming better understood through
out the United States as q forage ha
= crop, and its cultivation is extendin
c farther ard farther eastward, until al
= aIfa bids fair to supplant many of I'll
/ older crops throughout the country.
!, While alfalfa hay may be raised j