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Show j T.JE CAR FMVtR CANAL. ' Th. Vi.lt of tin. 1, i li-.tn.n roni,-r. Iro- 1 t :t t los W.ll U, ! Tho exMsion lint v.eot north on . Saturdav through tee eourtesy c-f tho i I " 1 1 1 n FueiJie '.a.iroai cont'.ar.y was j one that will I ng be rememhere.l ly those wi n prrl.cipaled in it. At Ogdou ; a ii'ci -1 .1 on v..s tendered to tiie cxet:r-hionisis, cxet:r-hionisis, wiih a r. le aiiout tho ciiy, fiieechcs of welcome at the op ra leu'. aid a lii'ii-h at the Ue.l hold. in n thu train nailed at liriu'-ooo City it was found lii.it the people of t'ltit (it-luhtiiil place had arr in-red a tisl o on the platlnrm loac.cd v. itn the most, luscious lriii;s which the travelers ivi ri invited to help I iieei.-cW i s lo. Some ten miles furiher lo ith a stop j ni made lit a rcmai kanM mineral '. soring or sprint's owned by pl.ssis. llarvev and Suhls. 'i he llow nl water in soiiie 20.1 1 gadotis per minute, a peculiar pe-culiar teatt't'o being that pari is oi'y e.ihl and (he rest almost boiling hot, the distance separating the llow of hot and cool water beiug oiiiy thirty or lortv feet. Tim train slopped at the Hear river dam lor a i'w minutes min-utes and then ran on to Logan when the excursionists were driven to the Agricultural colie-je sud tendered a lutioli. About i :.;.) thu party lot t lor the return trip, arriving in Salt Lake s.-iu'-t-ly afler eleven. 'Tins was tun Inst of thn excursions tendered to the visuors who came to attend the Irrigation con-grt'M, con-grt'M, and the parly determined that some token Mioiiel no given Secretary ( llilesjiie to testily oi their appreciation of li s untiring courts m their behalf. A handsoinu eoilieii.m was accordingly la..eii up wane the homeward run was bc:ng maile, the. Ogdnti folks coutribut-iur coutribut-iur liberally to the fond. 'i the aril', ar-il', al oi tne train in this city the exeur-sioni.sts exeur-sioni.sts woto called logml.cr on the piat iorm and 1 r. Maiain oi Koanmy, iXebi aska, in a neat -speech prctouted the pur.-i' to Mr. liillespie. 'I lie original thought connucted w iih this excursion was llut the delegate;. suou'd be piveii an opporttmity to m u the gnoi' irrigation w orks on tho Hear r.ver. 'J hat Inis ihooght w as accept ahio was aitested by ibe fact lhal. a lumber of the excursionists ftuppd at the canal to make ull examination, icing ic-ing picked up on ibe return of thn train from Logan. These wire mostly engineers, among ihem being l'rofos.sor Carpenter ami Me-.srs. Martin and Anderson of C.doiado and Toole of Idaho. They were greatly interested in the groat work tnat has been done there, and spent scleral hours examining the ditch in us cotir.e through the cation. Mr. J. ii. lino-Hi ami lr. Hoche were al.-o mom! cr.'i of tim par.y, and w hen the inspection was completed the Ihoroug'dv tired men v.ere invited to partake id the loi pilaliiy of thu company, com-pany, a camp being maintained there lor workmen engaged in repairing the liam. '1 on construction of the dam was somewhat faulty in that tho wtrtoru en..! was not staried on bedrock. As a rtr-'iltthe water has made a chr.nnel under it, and it is now necessary to construct con-struct a coh'erdam and repair the work. Ttiis w iii bn a so tr. re. hat tedious operation, opera-tion, but when it is liuished the dam w ill be aksolulciy .secure". 'The wot k dona on tins canal system in one of theniosl, elab.irate jobs of the I kind ever undertaken in the country. Tho first ntiio and a half of the canal is cut ill the solid rock, Jt is 17 font I wide on tho bottom, 2i fee' on top end In (eet decu. Thorn uie several tun- neis.t he lirst being 100 feet in length. the second 200, Iho third huh j.n 1 nr.olher I 1 .Mi. The ciiiial is iiiloudrd to carry tun fi ct ol water, and wiih thnt depth Iho flow xv;!l ba lO'.D cu , ic feet per Fecoml. Two lai'ie licmc-s have been built farther down the valley. Wk"n the cans! leavts the lauon, it makes a loppr detour lo the mountains, pro -sing the Mala t river with a fume. ii'tl feet in length and 110 fci.t hijli. Tho litime is cf wo" I but the iiipportt p pon xvhich it rcfts are of iron and i steel, lis immense size ran be appie- eiatrd when it ii i.-.t"d that two teams i can be d riven through it abreast. 'The ; se.'oud lliiiiie is further d-o.vn il o va1- ley. it is only :.M0 feet in length but is ! made entirelv of iron aud su-el. The canal is carried alona tho western west-ern side of the valley, but has Iw-j branches which traverse the plain parallel par-allel with the peneral course of the I'.-rar river. Willi iis branches, tho canal will reclaim IKMHK) acres of land. 'The sy.-tcm will be l"-t miles in length when completed. About 100 milts is now linrdied ami the water is running in it. Tiie company also intends to run a canal of equal size iropg the east side of the valley, aud much of tlm work for it has already been done. Tills canal i.1 projected to reach to tho city of Mgdcn stnl will water fi(,lil:'.) acres of land. The water works in Ugdeti are on red by the saruo company, tiia water being taken out. of a neighboring; canon. Another feature of the general p. an is to make an immense at era go reservoir of Dear lake by raising its level. Ti is work when carried out will provide water for nearly a million acres of land. The company has already expended f .hhid.iih'l in the vast enterprises that it hi;s inaugurated. It was organized in October, Ih-'.i, and work was begun very soon then after. The iiuluoeniont leading to Iho enterprise was the lnag nilicetit Hear river valley. There is an immense expanse of country lviiur north and south gf tlm beautiful city of Corinno which will ail he brought under a high stall of cultivation by this canal system. This land is declared to bo as pood as the best found anywhere In the ! west, and whenver water has been put on it the most astonishing results have I Icon obtained. In a few years it will all be reclaimed and the valley wIT be one of the nmst productive in the. conn- j try. The value of the work to t'tah lean scarcely 'no (stimated. Thousands! of families will find homes upon the re-I re-I claimed lands and the value of the agri' cultural product w ll be. largely increased. in-creased. As an engineering feat the ci.rial is one of our western wonders, but it w ll be erlipsi d by the greater marvel tha w ill gleet the eye of the visitor when iho Ide giving waters pouring through it shall have touched tiie soil of that attractive plain and ornamented or-namented it H'ith the verdure of the field and the orchard. |