The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-04
JUAb VALLEY NAY
BENEFIT BY PROJECT
Engineers Believe Strawberry
Reservoir Can Be Utilized
at Small Cost. i.
Special to The Tribune,

Special to The Tribune,
NEPHI Sept. 3.-The United States
-eclama ton service is ready and willinE
% assist the people OF Juab valley to Sc
sure water for their arid lands. This
Hatement forms the substance of the re-
>ort OF The committee appointed to in
'es,igate the possibilities OF obtaining
tier through the Strawberry project a
sond densation Of the report Follows:
First, that the preliminary survey
from santsquin ridge. 70 Diamond
z Fork had been completed, and had
shown that 1t was entirely feasible
IN construct the high line canal In
throw the streem over the Santaquin
ridge No very difficult engineering
would be encountered: It is proposed
to run the canal on the north side OF
. the canyon until near the mouth.
when a siphon would be constructed
10 carry the stream over to the south
side hill. the route then following the
foothills to Santaquin ridge. The sur
canal would have TO be some four
miles up Diamond Fork In order to
bring the canal as high as the west
ern edge OF the city OF NeDhi. IL is
nal could be constructed some little
distance higher than this at small
additional cost.
Second. the committee reported
naNlnG met WITH several pl lDe VI
fcials or the reclamation service and
having interested them In the project
of diverting Currant creek, n good-
sized stream in the Strawberry basin
region, into the Stra wberry reservoir
and conducting this amount OF wafer
after IT passes through the tunnel in
20 1uab valley. The committee was
advised by the government officials
that this could be done. the service
laws providing that more water could
he put into the project by outside
parties on certain very nominal terms
OF rental. ]. II. Lytel. project engi.
reer. reported that the reservoir and
tunnel were ample to accommodate
much larger volume OF water than Is
now being conserved for the use OF
the Utah county farmers. and that he
thought it entirely practicable 10 di-
vert Currant creek into the reservoir
and then conduct this proportion OF
water into Juab county. The officials
rroffered TO be OF every possible as
sistance TO tho committee and an
nounced that II the latter would run
a preliminary survey from tho prof.
ret 20 the point on Currant creek al
which the water would be diverted
and give specificat tions as TO tho class
OF work TO he done on this ditch the
government engineers would then
make an estimate Of the cost OF the
undertaking, and also from data al
ready in their possession could cal
culate the amount Of water available
snr storae ee from the Current creek
watershed The people Of Juab val
ley could then have definite figures
for deciding whether IL would be
worth their while TO appropriate this
water and put II into the project
II is quite definitely settled from a
legal standpoint that Juab valley may
appropriate the waters OF Currant
creek and put them into the Straw
berry project. afterwards claiming
their proportion in Diamond Fork
canyon. The physical possibilities OF
tie worl; can only be determined
from the survey. As TO securing part
OF the original waters OF the Straw
berry project, this is only 8 possibil
ity al best.