Show USE WATER fROM I BURI STRUM Mammoth th Irrigation Enterprise i I With EightMile Tunnel Is i Ii Contemplated I An irrigation project which Involves the diverting of a stream of or water in Uin Uintah Uintah tah county from its natural subterranean channel Into a flume which will carry it over fertile lands has been launched by four well known residents of or Ye Vernal al Utah With the granting of an application ap tion made with the state engineer for water right thousands ef of acres of land will be reclaimed from its desert condi condition condition condition tion The application for wa water water water ter was wall filed with the state engineer yes yesterday yesterday by b Aurin T Sheldon John H Reader Header W Yo J Meagher and James S Wildey of Vernal They seek to acquire right to 30 cubic feet of ot the flow of or Big Brush creek and Little Brush creek In ir irVint Vint Uintah ah county count The water will be stored from Jan 1 to Dec Dee 31 of each year ear and will be used for tor irrigation from April 1 I Ito to Nov 1 of each year Among the necessary diverting works will be a flume 1048 1045 feet long and an immense tunnel 42 feet long and a large laige dam in III Little Brush creek The system will 11 consist of a reservoir In the natural channel of Little Brush creek ln the Ashley Ashle national forest reserve on land The flume nume will carry the water from Little Brush creek cave which is now the subterranean n channel of the creek over a rise of or ground to the ancient sur surface surface face race channel of the stream some distance beyond From here It will flow about 18 ml miles Ifs s to its junction with Big Brush creek At the present time the th water finds its way Into the subterranean chan channel channel channel nel and does not again reappear on the surface |