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Show Ot R WATER SUPPLY AND ITS RESULTS Artesian and flowing wells are to play an important part in the, water supply of Utah. The surface of tho country, average rainfall, tho pitch of watersheds water-sheds and the drift of subterraneau currents, cur-rents, will, when known, indicate with great certainty the basins where permanent per-manent supplies of water may bo obtained ob-tained by driving and drilling. Actual experiment alone will dotormiuo questions as to depth, rock strata, its dip and bend and the location of receiving re-ceiving basins. Contiguity of high mountains, with precipitous, sides and rocky slopes, will largely settle the question of the volume of water precipitated pre-cipitated aud percolating on and through a certain area aud collected in accessible rock basins. Some thousands thou-sands of fertile acres within one hundred hun-dred miles of Salt Lake City are open to settlement and irrigation by flowing wells, aud the investment necessary will return fifty per cent on the cost. The fertile valleys of Utah, running north and south for some 400 miles between be-tween mountain aud mineral ranges, are admirably situated"" to obtain, through flowing wells, abundant supplies sup-plies of water from subterranean basins fed by melting snows from the gorges of these mountains. Xo soil ou this continent excels in fertility that of Utah when properly . irrigated. No home market for farmers, herdsmen and fruit-raisers equals that furnished by the prosperous mining districts opened and and increasing in number throughout the whole length of this territory. Today To-day the demand for fruit, grain and farm products exceeds our home supply. Miners aud farmers, with more or less of capital, are greatly needed in Utah. As the valleys are tilled with small and well tilled farms, the adjacent mountains mount-ains will be prospected for minerals and profitable mines developed. With these sources of wealth opened, towns and cities will have a healthy and legitimate legit-imate growth. We are more than supplied sup-plied with idlers and Micawbers waiting wait-ing for "something to turn up." Forward For-ward the working brigade! |