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Show f PAGE TENr J ... jrrmxs THE PROVO POST ti - is again used to carry the water to the cast iron ' distributing system. The jacwLSystm was nMflulid!y.jpPtettk biggest undertakings the city has ever shouldered Provo City water Best in EWorld. . Irrigation Projects Develop Great "Arid Tracts , modernize the hundredsof beautiful farm homc3 located on Frovo Bench and in Lindon. Public ..spirited citizens have already begun investigations which are bearing results. The Orem town site people have thousands of feet of pipe on the fam grojm,! and the sprm'gs oit! fond in. he great valley reservoir', an abundance for the farmers who come under the great project, and next year will mark the 'first real irrigation slflee'thcrpTtiject was built. While Uncle Frm has been busily mpr6nfotiii g the HlravvTieny project, "local puUic sjxrited eitlzcns 1 ave r ct been jdleand the past year shows hundreds of aer3 of land imder cultivation through the more, intense development of the water from Provo cany on! To- dry thj ProvoBbservoir company 1ms constructed a canal twenty miles long, ami during the past' came-und- er cukiva- Summer SOOtTacrcs tkm through the service of thlseoihpahyVcanalll At the present time the company Inmind or construction nineteen m'les of canal, which will cnVry high water from "the Provo river to the great arid district west of the Jordan rive.r in Salt When completed, the line will extend beyond tire Bingham bra neb of ihepenver & a nd the present xalna of..lhe jy stf m jf ter ana has been jnade for depreciation, is jay Le ..utilized tn.uarryprirg.viiti2.r.into ll.e homes g(4prnxnnntdy f2 i5,00(hProm-i- s of the farmers. The promoters of this new ing enough. water to' supply a city with a much water works project deem it advisable for the u Odd WATER WORKS huger population than it nowjns. The be farmers to owruthe system, and the outlay of city officials were looklnglnto the future she. A town or city is usually julgcd byYhe immoney should be very small if the fanners unite they built the last time, and aathe pcni lutinn of in digging the trenches and laying the pipes to nrade this sts and be' wrn. citizens, provements Provo forges rapidly ahead it cafi. easily by upon ' homes. .their the-wjudgment, PrQ Staildrt'afyrrthcfeird nfther thatall of This is not a new vcr.tnre 'in farming disthe new system will be needeiLto supply the wonts towns of its class in he state. Prior-t- o 1890 the tricts in Utah. Already Slid way in Yvr asatch counoLProvo citizens within the next few years. city was without either a water works or a sewer ty has an excellent system and many other farmThe Sewer System i system, but the 'public spirited citizens, believing ing' communities hav& united to pipe water from Going hand in hand with the water suppty that the town could not grow without keeping the canyon springs to their homs. Provo Bench beis the sewer system, and Prpvo has not been. has abreast of the times, got together at that time and always been considered one of the banner hind in this regard. At present the s stem covers and vvith opportunity knocking at in 3899and 1891- - the first water works system , almost of the residence district-'- , t have Iio Grande railroad. we no reason to believe that the This" was installed by the Rhodes Brothers, who were" thedoor, amt all of the business district of the cltyT ' will now residents are let There from .the approximately 12,000 acres-.oitpass by. given the contract to bring the water system was completed at a cost of approximately --o setthis land under ooProvo river into the city. Tp do tills a large project with no other available $I9S,0(XUJt,2tqo,'was laid out with a view oL , the canaL IRRIGATIONfuture extension in the city, and is thoroughly" tling basin was built at the mouth of Provo can-Water bears an now in process of construction is limited to part in the deyon and a redwood stave pipe carried the water up td date; In. order that the system may be kept G000 acres of ground. In connection this of iron into velopment cast and to. to the city, where it emptied pipes region, in excellent' condition the city has required that steel line mountain two streams are the new Utah with owes syphons forty-eig- ht the its pres-- ' county and was distributed to tbc users. This system was .only the best of plumbing be installed, and every" " wealth. The past year ka3 seen much added inches in diameter, aggregating in length vtit used for ten or twelve years." nevv home "which is built in Provo and attaches 19,030 feet and a reinforced cancrete conduit In 1902 the city secured springs farther up development in this section and the irrigation to the vvater and sewer system must be thorough-l- y inches in diameter and 2000 feet long, forty-eigprojects have forged rapidly ahead. There is in the canyon and it was deeidedrto mjike a change in inspected and passed upon by a competent inUtah. a number of small which when for completed will carry a stream of county large irrigation the water supply of the city. A line was run spector in the employ ef the city. , . of back" some to them .date" "the eaily water across the Jordan Narrows from the point -systems; about four miles into the canyon, and 1903 Provo Sanitation Source of Health settlement of. Provo and others mark the of the motain on the east to a highine canal on secured its first spring waters This served the Since the water and newer Bystems have been the west. stages of development. Yet all are makbce-- forging to. until 3 91 1 when cue present new-- syfetem-was- . completed i mi h is Jty,- Prov-ohathat of for one ing NoFonTyliai" TierFbeeirdevetopmesrlntre" purpose, creating happyTomes tbe front in health statistics and today the city completed from the mouth of the canyon into the for a water people. happy eme for old and line the which supply from. the Strawberry valley and of well a has record abandoned, except city any community might A our mountlan streams been going vn, but the year ago the great Strawberry project be proud. Sush diseases as typhoid, diphtheria, gency purposes. was at a standstill. Disagreements between the same local promoters with J. E. Murdock at their Today Porvo has the best water supply of etc., do not occur in Provo with the frequency, -and farmers' diUncIerSar,, head have been seeking to relieve- - the anxiety of region. The water any city in the they do in many. places of less than half the popul" from making further expenditures and further the farmers around Utah lake by' taking care of is gathered into the main aqueduct by mean of latlqn. Provo stands at the head of the column As Christmas rolls tide around at least apportion of the surplus water that hasdevelopmnt. of the many laterals running to thesprings as the water --of health-araothis year we finds conditions changed. The warbeen flooding so many acres of farm land each bubbles forth, and does not come into the open un- region with a frequency that makes proud every have measure factions in a come ring togethsr , year for many years back.. During the past year til the water runs from the house taps and the public spirited citizen. To the excellent supply have as contracts a let result for digand the .Utah Lake Irrigation c'ompany has greatly been, fountains. The springs located in the limestone"' of' water and the drainage Bystem belongs the ten miles of line the canal from high ging running improved its system There a splendid pumping of the canyon are kept and conducted through credit. canal in diversion the Fork to Spanish canyon which vitrified into concerte these plant has been built and the water is pumped to Provo Bench Hotting in Line galleries pipes will Over be sent to $110,000 . Payson an elevation of 100 feet above the level of the City. dig From the activity on Provo Bench at the carry it to the head of an inverted syphon of the and Utah .this diameter wood-stacanal, Jfermerev county through .Jake through a. wooJstave piper'This syphon' conducts' the water present time wcfeel safe in forecastrog a" waterthe will do the contractors, undoubtedly greater down the canyon and onto the east bench. Here pipe from the lake to the main canal, which works system for that highly favored farming It.of runs to tbe north end of this county und the southand fruit raising distrietbefore the Yuletide" portion a concrete aqueduct lias been constructed to withThe in reservoir is great ern Strawberry .valley stand very high pressure, and through this eque part of Salt Lake county. This great project greetings of another year roll around. The water with and water at rapidly filling an area of 20,000 acres of land, which have' covers present duct the water is condueedf6' apornt'a'kTi 6rr'"''"'ii'eeded'for' such'lT syBteiff'lrwlthhrthg'reach 'Uf of acre feet 200,000 water he may (Continued on page 111 the farmers and only united effort is needed to distance from the city, where a woodstave pipe -. en-gim- -ir te - -- a of-la- - ... tewUkdi-eaabe-bFougli4--into- -- , nd -- i t .. 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