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Show I; ! ; Desert Shall Blossom As the Rose Ht 1 1 H l Kcw l'limp lloliitf Iiuliilleil lit Utnh H " Lake rinnt C'nnnl Ilclng Hull! to H; ' Pelican 'Point Hundred of H. j x ArrvNof Xcw I.nnd fomliiK mm ,, Under ('ultlrntlnn. ' Tho Utah Lake Irrigation compnny W tills week Installed two new pumps In H lis plant on I'tiih l.iikc, nrnr Saratoga H Springs. Those, two now eontrlfiign, Hv S pumps arc of the Allls-Chnlincrs typ ' I mid each Iuib a lifting capacity ol t Jj 4 twenty-four cubic feet of water per second. With the addition of the two Tj ' new pumps the plant now lias a total fl !,M ' cnpaol(y of ninety-two second feet, 01 B II enough to irrigate between 9,000 and H i '' 10,000 ncrcn of laud. LmW' I Thirteen. men arc uow busy ItiBtnll H ;Mfi Ing tho pumps nnd incidental macltln t ;'1 cry yvhlcu will haVo been Instnllci. H ,'; within the next twenty days. U ,,' When' completed tho plant will con- H ijj, slst of five pumps, each connected up H j'l with a scparato electric motor. There H lis will .bo three pumps, each lifting H jit twenty-four second, one lifting thlr- l i, ' teen second feet, and another havlup V, h sevon socond. feet capacity. To rals, i ' one, cubic foot of water 100 feet high H i ' per. second requires approximate K , eighteen horsepower, ho tho olovatloi H j h..' of ninety-two Hecond feet into the Bj III. company's cuual 100 foot above tho H ; i lovol of tho Utah Lake will require K ,' ' 1.C56 horsepower, which, If used tc Ht .i-'l tho. combined pumps' capacity, will H ; require an outlay for power alone ol i k " about JG.OOO per, mouth. jJh ' ) Of course tho pumps will not bo op- 1' ' i crated to their full capacity but a pari H , of tho Irrigation season. H;,j ! ' This year 'should give tho farmers H if a pretty fair estlmnto of what thclt ; water will cost per acre for annua! Hulf ' maintenance, as the system will draw Uft sufllcleht water to reduce the cost al- Hp? ! moat, to a minimum. Tho best estl- wtt mate nqw Is ttmt tho maintenance will KM cost,'-about $1.C0 per acre-foot. As Ki'if I groin requires but about ono foot and BU I j othor crops mofo, it Is estimated that ,'f'r 1 tho .man who has a diversified crop ilH' 4 wl11 pny Dtwcen $2.50 and $3 per Hnlk I cre. Bili K j Work commenced Monday on the building of tho canal south from the Vi'rf I Land 'Rock to.Polican Point, a dis- Hl'E( I tance of four miles. 11. W. Mcndcn- LLUt'-'fi nail of Sprlngvlllo, who, with his LT-y t f! J brother, U, P., owns several hundred HU! hi1 acres this sldo of Pelican Point, has H sjf j i tho contract and has several men and Wfq) tetmf ,et work. a. u. Jones is doing fi .( th engineering work. This new canal B"7 , I to the south will cover 3,000 acres of - I fine land. Hundreds of acres nro be- H'jk ' Ing broken up and cleared nnd will fl L j be seeded chiefly to grain this year. ; f"4 E. W. Schneider Is planting a family H! ' ! orchard and, Thor .Ccdarstrom vylll set t ;. out flvo acres of apples on his farm Hj southwest .of the Saratoga Springs. ---W1 j Joseph' Ilroadbent, tho Utah-Idaho H'i'i I, Sugar.icompany, Heber Comer, J. R. ; Giles, llyrum JEvatis, R. C. Cooper B! , I Nate Rockhlll, all of whom own land LLtW' v adjoining the Saratoga Springs, are H ' clearing and planting hundreds of H acres and many people further north H are following their example, v When all tho land from Pelican B i Point to Jordnn Narrowa, lying under HHHHj the two canals, Is undor cultivation, K It will mean tho addition of 6,000 acres 4 1 to Lehl's cultivated area, or more than H we havy at present, having u full Hj rlcht. H Work Is also progressing on the big H syphon which will crosn tho Jordan 1 ', River at Lampson station. Just below B 1 the Narrows. This will take tho water l ; to Draper, Bandy nnd Cottonwood and 1 1 Irrlgato n largo area lying 100 feet Hm I above tho old Salt Lnko county canals H' east of 'Jordan River. |