Show RAISING UTAH LAKE government engineer powell in provo on important business on wednesday evening TF H brown deputy george W gee roger Farrer chairman of the city council committee on irrigation aldermen scott and holdaway and prof geo 11 Brim lull met in the office of the county clerk at the anew ell government civil engineer and surveyor who has been taking levels of utah lake and of the lands adjacent in accordance cor dance instructions from the government for the purpose of assisting the senate committee on arid lands in their investigations in tui spart of the northwest the object being to store water for irrigation purposes the question of raising the water of the utah lake as extensively discussed at this meeting engineer newell stating that so far as he understood it was not the purpose or the intention of the government to raise the utah lake to the detriment of the people in its locality mr answell very kindly made some very valuable and practicable suggestions in regard to the various systems of irrigation giving information concerning the manner of irrigation observed in the various states and territories the gentle mans information on this subject is very j extensive and very valuable as was fully demonstrated at last nights meeting I 1 mr newell expressed himself as greatly delirious desi rious of visiting the canals and irrigation ditches of provo and vicinity and of visiting tins the sources of water supply at the head of the river for this purpose brown deputy gee and chairman farrer accompanied mr yesterday afternoon to the mouth of the canyon and to the several canals and irrigating ditches leading from the river engineer newel has an electric metre with which he yesterday afternoon measured the river at the mouth of the canyon the manner in which he measures this instrument is by means of a wheel attached to the meter which is placed in the water at various points across the stream the metre registers the amount of water which is multiplied by the depth and width of the stream where the wheel is situated which will give the volume of water in feet in the stream mr newell states that this is the most practicable method of measuring water in irrigation ditches that has come under his extended observation the result of the measurement by engineer powell of the water in provo river is as follows number of cubic feet flowing past a given point per minute the water in the big bench canal was also measured the result being 2460 cubic feet per minute in other words one fifth of the water in provo river the rain came down so heavy just as engineer powell made this last measurement as to prevent further investigation vesti gation |