Show froia i hilj 81 aroa bear our alie results mr joan U ot the well company which proposes to empty the waters 0 alie over the and acres of malad valley an I 1 those of weber county bringing irrigating water for all needs to the irrigating of this county la buy with alie work before him the resident engineer sir mathyas i for lnla on the contract of removing cubic ards of solid rock loofe loof e reek and earth and the tunneling of 1 too linear feet mr tans yesterday interviewed portlier tort lier on the work lie stated to a reporter of THE that had been provided but he dmd rt of a million 13 ready if required and in rny judgment it will ba for alip of money supply haa in fact been eliminated altogether the only question now is as to the extent of ilie work that should be undertaken at once you say tho arst contract extends about twelve miles yes sir I 1 have sent out gotico to contractors asking for proposals for I 1 in isear kaver canyon and alon the ade lull the kark necca mry to get he oct oti ane bear ia mouth anil collingston collinston Col linston blut ot ork does this you have seen the amount in our advertisement for bids the engineers asti quantities qian of material to lia moved ii this section as follows cubic yards of boerl rock 19 mi cu bac ardi of loose rock 15 cu 0 cabic yarda c earth 1200 glineur feet of tunnel such an amount of ought to make amago incent showing well it makes a an artificial navigable river than any river in colorado utah wyoming or nevada and at it is at least feet higher than alio river at rear bridge will there ba any imposing lures exhibiting the engineering edill of the promoters of the enormous enterprise ter prise none whatever the greatest en pine cring triumph of the bhole flork is the elimination of au euch but dangerous and costly structures the obly dabi wo behall have is it simple contrivance chieh ano men can take out or put in in half a day we raise the river only three water while at high nater out the dam altogether we could not raise tha river above its high waler stage without flooding lands in cache valley have only a depth ot but three beit of water in the canal no wo have a depoli of ten feet but alie cabal at its initial point in midstream is beien feet under the surface of the aher at low water asab ter renean channel is blasted out into the river a lanng mouth opening out up stream as I 1 explained once before As his cli ancel the rocky eide of he canyon along shore ta bottom is seven feet below alie river level the removable dam gives the extra three feet making the water in the canal ten fed deep it is carried down the canyon through tunnel and open cut luu will eee from this that the works although mammoth in extent and capacity ara extremely simple and structural se arity is absolute you spoke at one time of the three million dollars hy is so largo a sum required in an irrigation you will see if you earnestly endeavor to comprehend tho extent of tho ork undertaken ahe volume of water to be handled and abo broad area throughout which it is to be distributed tri buted for months past I 1 have been arlod continually when we begin work yet all the time we have had from three to five engineers gi crews in the field but scattered through five counties in utah and idaho and pursuing their work quietly people were led to imagine that we were doing noi liing but and meantime waiting for something to turn up few people even now know of our appropriation of bear lake the greatest natural reservoir on the continent or of the last significance involved in it 80 you hao appropriated rear lake lor re senoir purposes Is it adapted for the purpose 0 it ia grand A beautiful expanse of water square mile very deep and surrounded by mountains with one narrow outlet across which we aro now building a dam the great reservoirs built by the east india government are small la comparison the storage system in con temptation temp lation for tho new acque duct for new york city and for which they to build a masonry dam twice as high aa the highest existing deim in the world will not equal lie hear lake reservoir in capacity it means that all tho country along the course of bear from w hero it enters idaho northward to soda springs and back almost to salt j ake usty never want for water that the supply shall forever be without limit that the water fidall no longer run in deep channels fir atia level of alie land to be utterly wasted but that it dball bettered controlled aud te distributed for use over one bundled of square miles of the baith by a system of artificial conduits all under as perfect regulation as the water works of any city it means the duplication of the valley of alie or of the nile in their great days on the backs of bear river below I 1 ear lake oco can scarcely help becoming as this grand la mapped out you certainly with much and enthusiasm 1 well here is a lima or all things there much time for enthusiasm up in that canyon last winter and spring for many weeks it was dreary enough and as the estimates bounded up to the millions it looked hopeless nov with the complo tion of theeo mammoth works assured one may well ardently of tho good to follow I 1 hae studied and contemplated it until I 1 am lost in reverence reve tence of the beneficence it i to be it will carry everywhere and perpetually it will touch land only to fructify it it will come to a mans lirose but to beautify its belongings with all green and growing things it will bring to the towns of this arid region the possibility of growth it will exalter water power all up and down this valley it will resurrect dead towns and give birch to new ones like the wand or the ajol genii it will do good to all and harm to none it will replace long stretches of sand and parched ground with arms vineyards orchards shade trees gr denn meadows factories and all the paraphernalia of human industry wealth and happiness A stone image might well grow enthusiastic over the surety that all this is to be as alie result of an impulse imparted by him when yon first contemplated thia scheme did iou not expect that it would require only or OB at the ont eide that Is the way it was represented to roe and by engineers engine eis febo pro ceased to have etien it some attention but it has mounted and mounted in figures as I 1 it up during the patt liala year it las been an enjoyable work tome brou frou the number and variety of alie obstacles encountered como 0 which apie ired at first to be there is a stimulation involved in ones way throngs throng 1 each an unexplored thicket of that ia and la loaff ego the project parsed the trillion dollar and for borne ume stood at about a million and c half the last liala million I 1 was to annex w athin the month june on account of the necessity of resorting to storage you became that on coul dent count on WO second cubit feet of w ater at the head of the canal under all circumstances it mait safely bo counted on nine ears out of the ten the teeth ear aliea it would be most indispensable it ha depended on this as luck would have it to be the tenth or dry year A long dry boason followed by an open and winter in the mountains has reduced the caterin the river to an low stage and at leneth I 1 per ceitel that there was no alternative but to asure a supply of water for my canal in all poe siLle bear lako offered tho opportunity I 1 hesitated three or four months before gr reluctant to enlarge so pro daous and if it could be abided aoi ded atul at last I 1 give in and a few ago went ap to dear lake nith my engin cerr made an egami nation found it all hat could be de birce appropriated the lake as a reser air under existing laws and customs posted noticed to that effect biad them recorded and when I 1 went east about the irth bat mr mathyas bay engineer m 0 construction went alons as far aa granser Or anser and from thence to tre lake to put a dam this dam is now in ess of construction it has always been understood here hy those who have not the aliat liat bear lake dimply a law aw amp through which the water of hear kier had lilt a channel no ahi bear uner does not run boar lake it runs through the corner of a vast marsh to the northward of bear lako called north lale on alie government map of idaho on alio bordera of tins mareli borre hay is cut but generally it is a unless plat of perhaps acres the engineers will examine this marsh with the view of and beir lake itself is enclosed by mountains except on the north the mountains rising from pretty near abo waters edge there are some plats of farm land on the shores ant these will be brought outright so that the water can bo bet them abo lake is fed by a stream called deep creek which in from hie nest between the lake and the marsh there is a sand ridge 15 or SO teet high through which in a channel hardly more than feet wide lion s the outlet of the lake when the water is aih in dear tho is flooded and the water sets back into atie lake when the river is low the marsh drains air and tho water runs out of the lak A dam thrown across the outlet at the sand ridge is all that is required to raise alie square miles of water ten or perhaps 15 or 20 feet how much water will it take to raise equale miles ten feets to furnish a flow of cubic feet per second for au irrigating sea BOO of 90 da s or that one cubic foot per second will supply acres enough to imitate acres of land for 90 days I 1 have no doubt hat the of the lake may be raised at least 15 feet above enormous total by 60 to per cent are there no arable lands on deep crock with water cifu 1 yes but we shall not need to interfere with abena the lake will fill between lie irrigating seasons the keople on tho above the lake are of course interfered with for those below it is not an interference but a providence since it forever assures them all the water they can possibly require in the drnest reasons or series of seasons it mill enable a canal to be taken out on alie right bank in cacho valley which will serve acres of as good bench land as I 1 know of sandy eloping in the south warm quick and now covered with a close thrifty forest cf the artemisha arte it the marsh north of bear lake can be drained we ahall by this last act la the drama not only secure water for bear kiver canal under any aud all but ceball make possible ahe reclamation of acres of land above great salt lake valley and thus with a comparatively ively email increase of outlay double the beneficence of the original orix inal scheme then there will be about acres of land now substantially without value which will be supplied with T ater for irrigation and ia fact assured a neier failing supply yea acres in great salt lake anley and acres on bear kiver above supplying it with water will in mv make abia land worth an acre fen cioc burldine buil dine and tillage will in a very few years doable this valuation and the growth and creation of towns con upon the use and improvement of the land will again within a few years double aliis valuation it is however impossible to ily translate into figures the benelas to from this undertaking cees of which is now assured and which will be proceeded with from this timo as fast as possible |