American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-04-04
Desert Shall Blossom
As the Rose
New Pumps Being Installed In Utah
Lake Plant--Canal Being Built to
Pelican POint-Hundreds Of
Acres Of New Land Coming
Under Cultivation.

The Utah Lake Irrigation company
this week installed two new pumps Ia
Its plant on Utah Lake, near Saratoga
Springs These two new centrifugaI
pumps are of the Allis-Chalmers type
and each has lifting capacity OF
twenty-four cubic feet of water per
second. with the addition Of the two
new pumps the plant now has total
capacity of ninety-two second feet, OF
enough to irrigate between 1900 and
10000 acres of land
Thirteen men are now busy install
ing the pumps and incidental machin
cry which. will have been installed
within the next twenty days.
When completed the plant will con
sist OF five pumps, each connected up
with a separate electric motor. There
will be three pumps, each lifting
twenty-four second, one lifting thir.
teen second feet, and another having
seven second feet capacity, To rails
one cubic foot of water 100 feet high
per second requires approximately
eighteen horsepower, So the elevation.
OF ninety-two. second feet into the
compauy's canal 100 feet above the
level of the Utah Lake will require
1856 horsepower, which. II used &c
the combined pumps capacity. will
require an outlay for power alone OF
about $4,000 per month.
OF course the pumps will not be OPP
Grated to their full capacity but part
Of the irrigation season.
This year should give the farmers
q pretty fair estimate of what their
water will cost per acre for annual
maintenance, as the system will draw
sufficient water to reduce the cost al.
most to a minimum. The best esti-
mate now Is that the maintenance will
cost about $1.50 per acre-foot. As
grain requires but about one foot and
other crops more, II Is estimated that
the man who has diversified croI
will pay between $3.50 and SO pei
acre.
Work commenced Monday on the
building OF the canal south from tn,
Land Rock to Pelican Point, dis
lance Of four miles. b. w. Menden
hall Of Springville. who. with hil
brother. d. f.. owns several hundred
acres this side OF Pelican Point, hal
the contract and has several men an,
teams at work. r. b. Jones is doinl
the engineering work. This new cana
to the south will cover 1000 acres O
hne land. Hundreds of acres are be
ing broken up and cleared and will
be seeded chiefly to grain this year
Il. w. Schneider ia planting famil
orchard and Thor Cedarstrom will sc
out Ave acres Of apples on his farm
southwest of the Saratoga Springs.
Joseph Broadbent, the Utah Idah
Sugar company. Heber Conner, J.
Giles. Hyrum Evans. r. c. Cooper
Nate Rockhill. all OF whom own Ian
adjoining the Saratoga Springs, ar
clearing and planting hundreds @
acres aud many people further mort
are following their. example.
When all the land from Pelica
Point to Jordan Narrows. lying unde
the two canals. is under cultivation
II will mean the addition of 5000 acre
to Lehi's cultivated area. or more tina
We have at present. having a fu
water right.
Work Is also progressing on the bi
syphon which will cross the Jorda
River at Lampson station, just belo'
the Narrows This will take the waite
to Draper. Sandy and Cottonwood an
irrigate a large area lying 100 fee
above the old Salt Lake county canal
east OF Jordan River