The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-01
Other Important Streams.


which have been mentioned IN the re-
port are Duchesne river with gaging
station at Myton, 53l 900 acrefeet au-
nuaIly for period of four years; Pro
vo river, Provo, 345,000 acre-feet an
nually for twenty years; San Rafael
river at Green River, 100000 feet an
nually for two years; Logan river, Lo-
gan, 249, 900 feet annually. for thirteen
years, and Sewer river, Gunnison, 202,-
900 feet annually for eleven years.
| Important streams showing less than
100000 acre-feet run-off annually are
Blacksmith fork, Hyrum gauging sta
ton. 17l,000 acre-foet annually, period
of record being seven years; Price river,
| Helper, III 600 feet, seven years; Span
ish Fork, Spanish Fork, 100000 feet for
eight years, and Cottonwood creek,
Orangeville, 100000 feet annually for
two years.
Those streams showing less than 100,-
| 600 feet annually are Huntington creek,
| Huntington, 81 400 feet for three years !;
Ashley creek. Nernal, o6S00 feet for
four years; Big Cottonwood creek, Salt
Lake City, 6l,700 feet for seven years !;
Hobble creek, Springville, $4,000 feet
for FIVE years; Ferron creek, Fcrron,
| 10000 for one year. Beaver creek,
Minersville, $4,000 for three years :;
Santa Clara creek, Central, 21,000 for
one year and San Pitch river, Gunni-
son, 29,500 acrefeet run-off annually
for period Of five years.
Much Goes to Waste.
| The total run-off for the streams
above mentioned is l0,879,700 acre-feet,
over 100000 acre-feet of which goes
to waste each year. Figuring that two
and one-half acre-feet should be used
per acre of land, assuming duty of
| four acre-feet TO the acre stored in res
ervolrs, sufficient water could be fur
nished by the above mentioned streams
TO irrigate $500 900 acres.
In the year 1909 there were approx.
imately $4,000 farms in Utah that were
| irrigated, which shows an incease of 10
per cent over 1899 In 1910, acreage
enterprises were capable of irrigating q
1850, ,246 acres, while the acreage in
cluded In projects amounted to 1,947,-
625 acres, The acreage irrigated and
included in projects throughout the
state in 1910 were as follows: United
States Indian service: irrigated in 1909,
,520 acres; enterprises capable of ir-
rigating in 1910, S6.600 acres and in
cluded In projects 100000 acres; Carey
act enterprises. irrigated in 1909, 5000
acres; enterprises capable of irrigating
in 1910, 10000 acres aud included in
projects $4,000 acres.
In the year 1899 there were in Utah
92S independent irrigation enterprises
as against 2472 at the present time,
showing an increase of 1864 per cent
in the last ten years. There are at the
present time 957, ,S59 acres in the state
which is supplied from streams; 1871
acres from lakes; 4400 acres from wells;
35,412 acres from springs and SOS from
reservoirs, the cost of enterprises up
to July l, 1910. having been $l4,O2s, III.
Big State Projects.
The Hatchtown and Piute reservoir
projects were recently completed by the
state Of Utah under the management
of the state board of land commission
ers and by direction of the state enpi-
neer. The Hatchtown reservoir is To-
Gated in Garfield county, ON the Sewer
river, about eight miles north of Pan
guitch, and will water approximately
10000 acres of land. The state origi-
nally owned 1000 acres of land under
this water right, but since the opening
of the reservoir has sold 5000 acres at
prices ranging from $50 to $50 an acre,
the purchase price including both land
and water The balance of the land is
still for sale by the state at the same
prices.
The state selected lO,OOO acres under
the Piute reservoir project, the prop
erty situated in Sanpete and Sewer
counties. constructing an excellent res
ervoir and disposing Of, Immediately
upon it's completion, the greater part OF
the land and water. Under this project
water is sold with land or independent
thereof at $3.50 per acre for water suf-
ficient to irrigate one acre of land dur
ing the year. The storage capacity of
the Pluto reservoir is Approximately
10000 acre-feet Of water, and it is con.
templated to eventually furnish sufi.
cient water from it to irrigate 10000
acres or even more. some of the land
being beautifully located on the
benches. In construction Of the great
| dam a pipe line has been built for util-
izing water power for hydraulic pur-
poses. seventy miles Of the Sewer val
} lev canal having been enlarged and
| thirty miles Of new main canal con.
| structed.
LateraIs Constructed.
| 1t is necessary to construct laterals
| to convey the water from the state s
canals in buying land Independently
under these projects. Under the Pi-
ute project the Jewish Agricultural as
ISOLATION of Philadelphia has pur-
chased $500 acres of the land selectpd