| Show CONSERVING G W ATfR SUrPl I i PIPE SYSTEM FOR SUNNYSIDE rfl AND W ETMORES C Surplus Water For Irrigating Fertile Dry Lands In Sanpete County Will Bs Reservoired A contract was let in this cityves t ray to the Trent Engineering Machinery Ma-chinery company fm the construction of a pipe line to convey the waters of a spring in Whitrwore canyon to the big ranch owned by George C Whit more the Nephi banker Primarily tie purpose is to supply he ranch with water at all seasons Every summer I seepage and evaporation ted to make Jthe flow so small in the natural channel I nel and open ditch that the ranch has suffered for adequate supply of water I The construction of storage tanks for service In connection with the pipe line will enable the conservation of the supply sup-ply for other uses which will doubtless r be a source cf financial profit to Mr 1 Whitmqre The pipe line will pass through the i Rio Grande Westerns new coal mining town near Sunnyslde and the inhabitants inhabit-ants will find i necessary to derive their supply of water from Mr Whit mores system A larger flow con be developed from Mr Whitmores spring and an auxiliary system for the new towns supply will probably be put in According to plans and specifications prepared by O R Young the well I knojvn engineer the pipe line will be three miles in length with a head of 300 feet The first 7000 feet will be laid with Ogden vitrified sewer pipe and the remaining 8800 feet will be of six inch steel tubing KErenohing for the new waterworks system will commence at once and pipe will be laid as soon a the material arrives on the ground V Irrigation Projects Engineer Young is making surveys for two other important undertakings that will tend to increase the agricultural agricul-tural area in Sanpete county For the Gunnison High Line and Reservoir company a project i forming to erect a dani thirtyfive feet high at the OU let of a natural depression through whlcli Ninemile creek tribu runs Ninemie G trbu tary to the San Pitch river This will impound sufficient surplus water to irrigate ir-rigate 2000 acres of fertile bench land admirably adapted to the culture of sugar beets The other enterprise will require the erection of < darn > forty feet high In a hollow in the foothills along Cedar creek back of Mount Pleasant In this will be reservoired surplus water to irrigate from 600 to 1000 acres of fertile fer-tile dry land Much of the work on these two projects pro-jects wU be done this winter by landowners land-owners who count her labor at nothing noth-ing and the hope is entertained that the reservoirs will be completed for usenet use-net season |
