Show I SENATE GOM COMMITTEE GOMES COMES TO UTAH t 4 S I FREDERICK H NEWELL Special to The Washington Nov 2 The United States Stites senate committee on irrigation nl I 1 arrive at Thistle Utah tomorrow end nd will devote the entire day ay to an and Investigation of the wk of the reclamation service on the Strawberry Str valley project The committee will arrive in Salt Lake City in the th evening of the same day da and will leave for the west on ay afternoon the next stop be being being being ing Fallon Nevada on the Truckee larson carson project During the present term the committee expects to visit Isit all allt tuc t tL f government works in the west and and the result of the tile in is likely to have an important important tant bearing on the attitude of the senate towards the bond Issue which was proposed by Secre Secretary Secretary tary Ballingor Ballinger and endorsed by President dent Taft laft Two projects tho Strawberry valley ani n the are of special Interest to Salt Lakes commercial and j manufacturing interests as the devel development development of irrigated lands in both val valleys valleys leys joys will inure chiefly to the benefit of principal city The Strawberry valley project from froman froman froman an engineering viewpoint is 18 one of the most interesting yet undertaken by the federal government It has already called for the best skill and no little I Ingenuity on the part of or the engineers e who wh vb are doing the work To augment a shortage in the water supply of the valley v Uey about Provo daring engineers are planning by means of a fourmile tunnel through the mountains to bring waters now flowing into another drain drainage drainage drainage age basin Into Utah valley valle By utilizing ing lug a drop In its own canal power Is generated and transmitted to the tun tunnel tunnel nel and the work is all being done by government forces and not by contract An ample water supply will be assured for acres of as rich land as an anbe anbe anbe be found In arid America The engineering features of the ARTHUR P DAVIS project are exceeding exceedingly ly interesting The irrigable area em embraces embraces embraces bed bedor braces acres occupying the of or ancient Lake formerly known krown as Fortymile Desert Nearly 1000 families are now living on these lands and settlement of additional farms is proceeding rapidly Truckee river Is diverted from its Us channel by means of a huge dam into a large canal lined for many miles with cement This canal carries the whole river and dumps it into Carson river By means of another dam the combined flow of both rivers is turned into canals on either side and led to the fields I Up to date these projects have In Involved involved involved the expenditure of follows Strawberry valley as The tentative allotments for these projects for amount to divided as follows Strawberry valley project making a investment in inthis inthis Inthis this region to the close of the year 1910 of The reclamation fund which Is la derived de derived derived rived from the sale of public lands In Inthe inthe Inthe the sixteen arid states and territories now amounts to approximately 60 The investment of the govern goern government ment mont in Its thirty projects up to June 30 1909 is about leaving a balance of to cover ex expenditures to December 31 1910 Of this amount the accrued liabilities for 1909 are about which leaves net balance of to cover a the tho allotments for future work to the Close of the fiscal year June 30 1910 |