Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-03 | Page 9 | Wells Furnishing Water for Irrigation near Cedar City

Wells Furnishing" Water for Irrigation Near Cedar City EXPERIMENTS near Mdford and Cedar City have demonstrated that irrigation by meana of wells can be made a success in Utah, declares C. C. Haskell, eng-ineer in charge of underground water development under the direction of Dr. Samuel Fortier, chief of irrigation irriga-tion of the United States department of agriculture. Mr. Haskell and Dr. Fortier were in Salt Lake yesterday after visiting the Milford district. "Much of the arid land in Utah." Mr. Haskell said, "has been proved unfit for dry farming, and for some time it has been considered practi cally worthless. This led to experiments experi-ments in well boring by the government govern-ment and state, and, as a result, the state has promise of many additional acres of productive territory. Two wells have been driven near Cedar City, and the water from them has proved ample to irrigate 16fi acres in one case a nd eighty in the other. "This system, though new to Utah, has been successful in many other states. California has many thousands thou-sands of th.p'-e we'ls and thev are proving satisfactory. In the region a "0:'nd the expr nv?nt star ion near Milford there are be I ween 30,000 and 40,000 acres that will probably be brought under cultivation through this method in the near future."