Show TO DRAIN UTAH LAKE J B taylor the is feasible and practical J B ta lora attention was first called to the problem of utilizing the waters of utah lake in august 1886 he found that measuring by the liverpool standard alie evaporation is thim six inches a year his idea was to reduce the area of the lake from its present area of 80 square acres to about ares there is a fall between the jordan at utah lake and the first dam of about eight or nine feet to dredge the river from the first dam to give the liver its normal flow reducing the lake eiehl feet would reclaim acron of land leaving a body nf water still in the lake covering acrea would protect all the ater rights in the jordan river and by the reduced evaporation evay oration would rive waier enough tn reclaim the acres of land lying between utah lake and the great sal lake aliis would open for settlement the acres of ground ro v lmh r utah lake which is all suh and wil produce crops without irrigation common sense shows that in reducing the evaporation aj per cent aliis amount of water can be utilized in reclaiming the land between the garden city and alie great salt ladt which with will prove aa fertile as any in tali ahe govern haa made an erroneous calculation by setting utah lake aside a reservoir reservation and proposing to raise it 33 this would increase instead of diminish the evaporation A canal to utilize these can be built reasonable figures says mr taylor lees than this is a business scheme as it is a dividend paying proposition the whole watershed of the oquirrh range is drained into utah lake it does not in aa a stream ant sinks into the around and cohoes in on bed rock its way into alie lake in the one of these is as large as a barrel and raises the surface of the lake from four to six inches by its commotion |