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Show ruWi Piiii AT BIT SMUGS Lake to Be irrigation Reservoir. Twelve Thousand Acres Will Thus Be Supplied With Water. By System of Dyke Level of. "Waters "Will Be Raised Some Fivo Feet Officers of the Reliance Irrigation and Water company say that the work of installing the pumping plant at Beck's Hot Springs lake, by which It Is purposed to Irrigate about 12,000 acres of valuable lands Ju9t north of the city, will be begun within ten days, and that the work will be pushed to the end that this Important irrigation project will be In full operation next season. The plant to be Installed will comprise com-prise three units of the aggregate of 700 horsepower, and gas, to be manufactured manu-factured by tho plant Itself, will in all probability be the source of power. The three unlta will lift the water from the lake the varying levels, tho first to he height of thirty-five feet, the scdhd 125 feet and the third 1S5 feet. Dyke Will Baiso Lake. Hot Springs lake will be raised by dyking to a level fivo feet higher than its present level, and the additional water supply will be pumped from the Jordan river, from which the company has perfected its right to 175 second-feet. second-feet. The amount to be derived from the lake, which Is fed by the seepage and surplus water from City creek and the Seventh "Wos canal, la estimated to be 31 second-feet. The company clalma that its supply of 'water Is sufficient suf-ficient to Irrigate 30,000 acres of land. The attractive feature of this Irrigation Irriga-tion project is the wonderful values that will be added to the lands covered. The lands are so close to the city and so well adapted, when watered, to the growing of garden truck, tnigar-beety, fruits of various kinds and other profitable profit-able crops, that the most conservative estimate of the added value which water will give them would sound extravagant ex-travagant to one not well acquainted with tho situation. Will Increase Acreage Values. Ono farmer near Bountiful ha.s this season marketed $76 worth of strawberries straw-berries from one-tenth of an acre of ground. Farming land with water in that vicinity rents now for $35 an acre a year, while hay land rentH for ?20. It Is no exaggeration, therefore, to Bay that land In tho. district to bo covered by tho new Irrigation scheme which la now worth 550 an aero will, when watered, wa-tered, bo worth from ?300 to WOO an acre. v |
