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Show BRIGHAM CITY FILES WATER APPLICATION Wants All of the Tlow Not Heretofore Appropriated in Boxelder Creei. Among the several applications for water filings made yesterday at the office of-fice of W. IX, Beers, state engineer, the most im portaut was that of Brigham City corporation, made by Mayor J. 1 Erdmann, for twelve cubic feet per second, sec-ond, to be taken from Boxelder creek, fhe diverting works are to include a dam, headgate and spillway and a channel chan-nel of o95U feet, with a grado of Hb'O feet per mile. Five thousand, five hundred and fifty feet of this channel will be of wood-stave pipe, and 400 feet of high pressure steel pipe. There will be two power wheels, each i three feet in diameter, and these will each operate under a head of -93 feet. This application contemplates the appropriation ap-propriation of the water in Boxelder creek in excess of the twenty-eight cubic feet per second claimed by Brigham City corporation since 1SH7 and now being be-ing used in its power plant to generate electricity. John Brooks of Beaver applied for .01 of a cubic foot from Cowboy springs to water 700 head of cattle and horses. Troughs are to be built to conserve the amount of water developed at the springs. Donald Sclimufz of Now Harmony, Washington county, asks for three cubic feet per second from Red Butte Canyon creek. The works are to consist of an earth dam and ditch. There will be watered "00 acres. The application st ates that winter irrigation lias been found especially beneficial to keep the soil full of moisture preparatory to early spring planting. (ieorge Oiamanti of 1 el per has applied ap-plied for one half of a cubic foot per second of water from four springs in the district. The water is to be collected col-lected into troughs for the use of stock. John B. Gluhmaun of Antelope has susltpfl for one-tenth of a cubic second foot from a spring in the Uintah district. dis-trict. The diverting works are to consist con-sist of an earthen dam and a 2"00-foot channel. Five acres of land are to be irrigated, and the water is also to be used for stock and domestic, purposes. |