Show BIG LAKE FOR UTAH salt lake papers have recently im published detains of a government ent irrigation project in northeastern utah utah which if carried out will create the largest artificial body of water in the united states another result would bs be that vast areas of the rich agricultural and grazing lands of lucerne valley utah andallo and also browns park in the northwest ern portion of moffat county colorado would be connected with the union pacific railroad at green river wyo by a navigable waterway extending for a distance of 50 miles the project is for the federal reclamation service to build a dam at the mouth of horseshoe canyon on green river three miles south of henrys fork diamond drill explorations made this fall by government engineers have proven that there is a solid rock foundation under 40 feet of sand and it has been found that the flow of green river can be diverted temporarily while the construction of the dam is in progress this latter convenience which will greatly facilitate the work vork will be accomplished complis hed by boring a tunnel through a narrow neck or rock at a point in the gorge of horseshoe e canon where the river winds in such a manner as to form a peninsula the dam would be built 41 at the point of the peninsula if the dam is completed it will back up more than acre feet of water this means a navigable deep waterway from th the e union pacific railroad at green river city directly to the east end of lucern valley through the wonderful F laming flaming i gorge and ladore canon which are reputed to havethe have the finest bits of scenery in the united states naturally this waterway will vill attract tra transcontinental ns continental tourists into stopping off at green river city and taking a motorboat doy doan rn the greed greeny the waterway also would af fard farmers in lucerne lacerr e valley to shi ship lp their heir products to the market hibar in barges ea haul hauled edby by motor boats or since a railway would have to be built to a point near tho the damsite dam site in order to bring in in materials used in construction there also would te be an NT ity to ship products to the market by rail the lucern valley CO operative cooperative land live stock company has already acres of land under development in lucern valley with an abundant supply of irrigation irrig atin water the proximity of the e lake to browns park would make it a great value to that portion of colorado the damsite in horseshoe canyon which has been termed one of the best of numerous reservoir projects under consideration in connection with the colorado river control scheme was investigated by E C la rue of salt lake hydraulic engineer of the united states geological survey after he had made extensive examination of the th site reclamation service engineers began making diamond drill tests known as the flaming gorge reservoir site well up toward the headwaters of the green it forms one of the finest units for construction in the colorado river control project other units of the project under consideration comprise the building of the biggest dam in america at the junction of the grand and green rivers where they unite to form the colorado in the southern corner of wayne county utah and a dam at lees ferry at the head of marble canon in Arizona and immediately south of the utah arizona boondry line |