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Show i " ' " Correspondence. Tits Fair view Vater Supply ; Gooaberry Eeservoir- ! Emory County I? Tatrly ,The Queen City's Celebration I Other Notc3- Fa'rtle-TWi'.tPr HurpJy The R-.isrca is a nelmrne visitor visit-or to our little buri; its coI-.mii j arc well scanned by all who have j he come acijuainte 1 with our i.ew I born friend; fur, though younp as I regards time it starts into journalistic ! ticld with tiie vigor of manhood and bids fair to tear away the taists which I have hitherto obscured ui froiii th Ijiiiliiic ie'.v and p'ace San I'ete on I the plain she has so long me.ite.l by htr a luiiral.le reeources and the i un.lagitiiiS enterprise of her citizens. We fancy we see San I'ete in the very near future towering hir;h above the foothills around, which she has been play in -j, and with a -,''o.v of pride lightin;; uj her visage, and taking her seat among the leading coiintie;. of our fur territory where sIie j ustly j belongs. j In this great reiv..l Frireic-v has ('.cleriiiir.e.i to he among the h-ading speakers, :miarin3 favoradly as regards re-gards natural recource.s wuh any town in the county, as we will proceed pro-ceed to show. Among tli s most prrninent of these we nuy ineu'.ion iur splendid j supply of water. Not only are we blessed with as good waier a! ever quenched the thrist of man, hut with plenty for irrigation purposes, wits the pos -ability of an inrrea of jo percent at a very trivial cost. This is due to natural iei.ervoir situated about seven rnile.'i east of this place wl.ic-h is being ma le use of by our enterpi isingtiiiens. Apparanlly thre wa ; at some time pa :t a very hti'g: la'ie iacloiel on the Iia-,1, South and 'e.-.t by a chain of high hills breasiug oil gradually as tliev came to.feiiier at the north side. Here the walerevi denrly broke over the natural eiib.nikui'':it and by its continue! flow had worn its th.ut-n th.ut-n .! i s t 1 iw that', tit little water, co n parativly sji-.-akiiig, re ouine J in the basin, tiii.s was divided into three j ponds. The stream having its source at this place wasa tributary of Green River, thus relieving Fairview of the dangers attached to the Johnstown reservoir as the water, should it break away, woul 1 only spend, its force on the tiny sage brush of the Gooseberry Valley, aod could do no Ivirm cvrf-it lht she.Jii wilt1;! t..,.-.. 11,41111 i.Avwj'kvti ..1.- i-eill- porarily located below. The citizens of Fairview have tltcn--n'WaiUna of t'uii fortitude and have placed a dam acro the channel cut by the water, ma ie one tunnel 200ft long leading to a canal about three miles long w hich empties empt-ies into cottonwoo I ere;', fro.n which our city is watered. The cost up to the present th'e. is about $6,000. The water in the lake covers now about 100 acr s of land with an a crag; depth of 13 ft 6in. The basin drained by th; lake is about three square miles into which the snow falls eight or ten ft on the level while the drifts are from 20 to 30 ft deep. At the present time one being mile long. The great advantage we have in this reservoir is that when the snow is all spent on this side of the mountain moun-tain and the waters are subsiding those at the lake are just beginnsngto swell. In consequence of tli is important im-portant move of our citizens the sagebrush which hitherto encircled our town on the North and F.a..t are fast failing into waving folds of lucern, lu-cern, as aresult of which our town will have. an abundance this season. In talking with one'of the stock owners own-ers in the company 1 was informed that fully two thirds of the water escaped es-caped from the lake this spring as an overflow, and that steps are now-being now-being taken to raise the dam and adjoining low places six feetso that none may escape this year. Get there boys! No water no bread. Fairview Jane 25, 1S00. G. |