| Show I 1 11 1 BO 10 ONG UTH m i farmers not dependent dekende i nt upon I 1 the summer rains 1 GREAT irrigation SYSTEMS I 1 thousands of acres acres of land nave been brought under wat water er during the year bear river company I 1 bringing settlers to the territory I 1 snake ena ake valley beaver valley and other projects I 1 1 while buor old nebraska kansis and blizzard ald len dakota have been it giai ilfe with tile the ravages ages ot of uncharitable nature this last year utah has bas gone on fortifying herself against drouth equipping ing herself for stcl productivity and endeavoring to i lity lay tile tho f cor a future ferell lity and wealth that the devil deil himself avont be able to overthrow not 2 satisfied atis fied the huntI hundreds reds of thousands of acres already under water and the fair tame fame the territory has haa acau acquired ired for hie h of f her irrigation schemes scheme she has either cither laid out or practically 1 I completed compla bcd or actually thrown open to public use since the last new year water reservoirs and canals to fertilize and feed the pir parching ching thirst of ot of her best acres of land loth horne home and foreign capital ellal involved in the construct lAn of the works lias has manifested oil an absolutely and a straight for ward fearlessness as to the future that speaks breaks volumes of encouragement to till th hopes of the utah public at large at ac elijat is as many dollars have been in ve it t a arring di anns zhe bic car as there have hava ben be bc n acres of li lirou rought glit under water ami in ili il moat cases the investors have stil fc 0 o bioc tri to the ali i morrow for the first doam dois D oc j 1 emun cration ami 11 1 I I 1 VER SYSTEM tie ainge L enterprise that has bas created til interest the III IQ i chow ahw pra pi results in tile the way of f immigration and thus chils fuit liing the plans of tie the promoter is that of fit the bear river land irrigation company in the extreme northern part of the territory the construction work was brought almost to an end there before set in but it was v as only in fit the fall of tile past year that the company may be said sad to have bave commenced the promotion of its schemes in lamest earnest during tile the entire purt part of the year its advertisements in ili tho the eastern papers provoked an encouragingly larger amount ot of correspondence and inquiry the signal excellence of nf the scheme and the proximity of the lands to the railroad seemed let t commend themselves with urr unusual usual force to tile the forming elc ment of tile the middle west letters of inquiry were received by the dosica in the chamber of Comme commerce ice in tho the immigration headquarters of the several ralli railroads oads and in the offices of all the leading real estado uge agencies acles in the territory encouraged by these signs early in october president lent V AV it ir rowe of the company entered into one of the largest general advertising contracts ever made by any similar sel jelleme leme involving vy lvir an outlay of in the antar ocean results were had from it almost instantly until now it jl Is the die belief of ajr air rowe and ills fellow workers thit that th it scarcely another year will 11 pat pass ss before the ilia acres under the bear river canals will be practically covered with industrious farmers and productive farms OTHER two other BC hems nes of vast rast importance have gained public attention both have been brought to maturity within the last quart quarter crof of the year and both owe their great advancement and estul completion largely to tile tha energy of a new comer coiner to the territory colonel F r 11 II holloway Hollow ayi words might very aptly be multiplied in his pral praise se for the capital and zeal lie has put into everything he 1 has 3 touched so far but the future of she he plans plana upon which tie he has been at work will probably speak I 1 more sufficiently to ills credit than any I 1 words that are arc aval available lable now in ili slay may last he became interested first in the anike valley land water company then in 11 tile the blaver D avar valley land irrigation fl COM company PartY the latter of which he aided to acor reorganize g anize SNAKE VALLEY an extended description of the plans slid wory work of tho the valley land I 1 Irl IrI galion gatlon company was contained in so lato late a number it if the tribune is as that of the alt it nas only within the i month of act moer thit that the enterprise became far enough developed to re clec publicity of inako valley as a fitting filling place for f an irrigation sai satenic enic the citizens of if Z utah know the pros proa and cons well 1 enough scarcely any doubt exists that ithe the pros are largely in the majority I 1 Pet bettor tor th therefore thre forc C cannot lie be done peril ai s than to reproduce the description 4 of 0 the irrigation scheme itself as given in fit the tribune of december ithe the location of the new scheme me is in athe tho beautiful snake valley co country witry in ff the extreme we wei item tern part of i 11 county hy by january it Is expected 1 that the last stono itono will be laid on a aara rt im which will avate ft a reservoir two fc smiles miles long one half mile wide and i nearly ri 1 I 1 0 one i e hundred foet feet deep with a t cap capacity ity to furnish water to irrigate f g riO ool acres A capital aTil tal of tiO OOOO stands i behind the enter enterprise trise and such pro K are at work upon it as Y jar 1 a A wille Jose joppe plit E ray and ii it KT J of lit territory and dr t NV estrall ind colonel F 11 II Hollo holloway ivay k two ive wealthy althy and energetic citizens of 0 I 1 texas who have recently adopts d utah as their honc the 1 1 comp company iny which the gentlemen forni conn known as the snake valley land i water company was organized in with tt a capital stoc ot of k colonel 11 olloway and dr we westfall cfall fall I 1 were wei a not then associated with it work na w a 1 at once begun in ili the way of surveys and th thi acquiring of water rig lits forthe tor the large scheme which la Is now low being F consummate cons cona ummat d 1 1 I 1 ANN AN OLD LAKE I 1 juu jutt above the valley the formation bif e the mountains mount alris indicated the existence of an old eld lake that had overflowed I 1 B ond and cut out a waterway valet way through the sol eold d rock down into tho the valley ahl which ell tf 1 in ili turn a bout about forty miles long by eight miles in widin in the over flour it laft a heavy deep deposit of reoh rio i al soil alie propagators or the irrigation heme atheme at saw sav that the closing up t of tho wall would again impound the adwaters waters tand practically restore the original atrial take lake fu EU that it could be used as a I 1 to irrigate the beautiful valley bicy below it it I 1 the surveyors yes estimate showed that i a darn dam thirty live feet high by feet K 4 v liu would serve the purpose accord angly angly the construction of the darn dam waa vius av begun in fit the fall all of ISM I 1 f I 1 instead cad however of providing tor for the I 1 I 1 r dr rain aln of water from the dam to tho tha tr dr isid irrigation canala lo in the usual ual manner the company oni pany were tuff buffered SUlTer ered cd by the formation of the wolli walls to devise u 0 now manner of outlet outly t this 1 COP cort isted of n tunnel for 22 20 fett feet i through the solid wall which I 1 tap tali tho the reservoir at some distance I 1 1 1 RI rive the darn dam and carry it feat below it at the inlet of tho iho tun A I 1 i net fl a pe penstock was erected by wilc amich l vie tie pr assure of at water the tun 1 i l net nel could bi be rv efm cited at afzul vill together I 1 1 I 1 all fir dani dam was arr bv the quarrying of a I 1 waste ste way I 1 through I 1 ih tile the fig right h t liva wall I 1 1 twenty twenty 10 lo thirty feet ft roe rock were in t be removed front from there it ft being applied a on n the con construction tt ruction work so that anible amble ania ama outlet c should hould be afforded tor for freshet and storm water when tell the plans and construction work were well wed und under er way colonel holloway and dr westfall westfall who had already made themselves famous in texas as promoters of similar enterprise became interested in the apropo houi both financially and otherwise st colonel holloway hollow ay iy at once assumed the vice presidency and general man management aged land and de devoted voted his entire time to furthering the work ills ilia means and energy together toe ether ath that of the prominent and wealthy men already c connected on with the company hastened matters so that by december of this thia year the long tunnel U was as completed lind and the dam almost finished while the me excy excavation for LAC waste way will be brought to an end very shortly WILL BUILD CANALS As soon as the litter latter phases of the work are arc over with it Is the intention ot of the company to continue at once onca upon the construction 0 of f the canals which are arc to carry this waters trat ers over the sn snake ae valley for a dista distance nce of a mile and one half the natural channel ebaline I of the stream am will carry the water from t there here on it will be distributed by trenches 3 on either side of tie be valley the one on the west side alar running for the present a dIst distance anoe of four to live miles that on cn the cist cast for a instance of seven to nine I 1 milles the valley vahey lies so BO evenly and with so gradual a slope that every acre of it pan can be reached by the water from the canals ultimately as fast as clr c u instances call for it the trenches will I 1 be c extended through throughout oil the entire forty miles length of the valley NEW ANEW TOM TOWN N STARTED the dani dam construction his has been hurried in oi order to 10 impound the winter lv Vaters ny aters so that the valley can 10 opened up in ili the spring the bulk ot of the land Is government property properly which can call be acquired under the desert land and hom homestead esteal acts the corri piny will devote itself merely I 1 n immigration into the lands in order that they may make a market for their waters anticipating a fair influx of a town site has been laid out and given the name of burbank uncle S sn n has already commissioned a postmaster to preside do over it sonic some twenty five fire fam families lifes and ranches are tributary to it the town Is laid out ln on a modern plan the company calculating upon making it eventually the latrop ol 01 lis of western utah mr melvell Me Mel vile vEle dr Wesl fa and colonel holloway olloway II will ai at once erect homes there in order 0 a give the site the semblance of stability BEAVER VALLEY the second scheme in which colonel holloway Is interested is that of the his beaver valley land water company compa Y bucel this he reorganized in slay alay as successor so to the old company known as tile lie beaver river irrigation company and at onze one brought to bear upon it some come of capital to add to the 1 or already expended like that of the snake valley the he scheme was one tor for furni furnishing ng water to sett leni upon government lands ands through the beaver valley stretched stretchy l an all area of 2000 or more acres corg cong lions to a railroad all of which could te be easily ca ly reached elther either by a fingle or by parallel canals some w wres acres res were already occupied offering an immediate patronage to a water flow as soon as such should be established the old company had already the building of a dam to impound the he waters of the beaver river and the new company had merely to continue the work that they have done within the year so that they have no now W completed a darn dam that creates a reservoir covering nearly 2300 2500 acres and having a capacity of GD cubic feet also they have surveyed and partially dug a main canal through one third of the length of the valley it is their intention now to accumulate the current winter flow tor for first use in the spring the engineers reports estimate that the reservoir will be filled by may with jill sufficient ater nater n to irrigate IS doo acres of land and that from the ot of slay may on during the period ot of flood time enough snore water will flow in to nil fill the reservoir a second time thus on barging the capacity to make it fully commensurate with the bumbar of acres which it Is desired to irrigate an advantage Is extended to the projectors of the beaver valley plan that has not been enjoyed by any mothr irrigation company com piny in having tributary to its ditches a population large enough to make some immediate compensation for the large outlay of money ve ventured tura in the enterprise also considered conversely on ver sely bOly a distinct benefit is conferred on at least a small portion of the territory by the company in its preparing of a water supply for the inhabitants of acre s of land in that respect the beaver valley IrrIg irrigation allon company has numbered itself as one on of the direct benefactors or of the year the plan of exchanging water TI tights lits for land is to be employed by the company as soon as the water is turned into the ditches in the spring on ill the properties thus acquired acquIre a the company will effect substantial farm improvements arill and resell at figures within the reach of men of mo moderate lerate means As soon as circumstances Jus justify it a owl site will be laid out somewhere between allford and blick rock arid and that town site will hive have the unusual advantage ot of beling being within a five mlle mile stones th throw row as it were of a magnificent hot ant and a tine mountain stream elthe cither r of 0 which will be sufficient tun lelent water to supply the demand of a quite large and thriving settlement the gentlemen who are behind the enterprise ter prise in addition to colonel hol holloway 1 la who is the he general manager manag pro pre the following james D pardee pr president oil A L fotheringham vice dent F A dunshee secretary the company is capitalized at OTHER I 1 SCHEMES beyond these three irrigation companies others have enjoyed some prominence luring during the year some by virtue of the strength of their past history some so ce because they are merely projected for the future e mention is made only of those that have matured during the tha year r among the other enterprises are arc the igean 11 1 1 wan lake reservoir canal company om the leavington leamington Lea company and the marysvale Marys Mary vale reservoir company the work of the latter corn company pany is nearly completed arid and will supply water to a highline high line canal already construe constructed ted THE CAREY BILL quite quilt foreign to the actual accomplishments ments of the year but of such a character that it may contribute to the accomplishment of another y year ear was the carey land bill passed by thelast the last congress with its gift of a million acres to each of the arid land atal and the irrigation conditions at to it some extra stimulus may anay be added to plans involving of lot arid lands in the future fixture |
