Show irrigation NEWS facts and figures on provo eiver A BIB WOW BEING GATHERED A mammoth work for dext spring proposed interest ing letter from foistier Fo itier readers ot this peper will remember from reading the report 0 tha proceedings of the last cession of the poyo city council published on wednesday that hon J EBo ith water commissioner called the attention of the council to the great necessity 0 the connall taking the necessary steps at once to preserve the rights the city obtained some oyer a year ao by work done on the bead waters of provo river in back ing up water in the lakes etc also the necessity of establishing a permanent weir dam at the mouth of the canyon for the measurement of water mr booths was re to the committee on and the gentlemen of that daw have the referred to under consideration the object of thia article is not particularly to urge action by the committee because the enquirer delleves Dell eved the members of the council folly the grave importance of this matter and will give it prompt attention thia capar all of the waters of brovo river are wideawake wide awake to the situation and dealza the necessity of having an accurate measurement of the flow of the provo river at the mouth of the canyon at all seasons of the year for the reason that the are that at no far distant day that is to be seriously serio asly interfered with and usera of the water ought and must know what their are and how much water is their doe at the month of the canyon especially during the irrigating season it ia well known that the natural flow of the river this season baa been ample for all purposes and that it has not been bary to draw on the store of water anat was reservoir ed for ua last year in the lakes at the scarce of the our rights accrued there in years aone by especially by the work done last year mast be preserved and in with this subject mr booth has a letter received today from samuel fortier of hydraulics at the agricultural college at logan and government agent for utah of the U 8 geological survey that contains same valuable information for ur aso ale here the divine out of which is the principal object of this article now the protessor was in provo on the ad of thia month taking measurements of the water in the river which it is tia duty to do at certain stated limes he found abe aliw unusually large for this time of year the measure i ments taken daring several years past are in the professor possession and other measurements taken are in abe possession of commissioner booth together these gentlemen will in toe near future prepare a table showing the flow in second feet for each mirk oa the gage or measurement this table it will be seen will be information of abe most valuable kind not only for provo city but for all users of the waters ol 01 river professor fortier in his letter also aska commissioner booth to cc operate with him looking to the work early nest c pring of apportioning the water supply ot provo river among the several legal claimants the ia anxious to make the following teat of abe water supply of thia county establish a station a few bun dred feet above the adgate he of the utah and salt lake canal in jordan narrows and note the davy discharge of jordan river throughout the season this would represent the outflow of utah county then establish ei nilar stations on all the feeders of utah lake this combined flow would represent abe inflow in addition to these the professor desires to ascertain the capacity of each irrigating ditch and canal in the county measured at least three times during the season this aggregate would show the volume used in irrigation knowing the inflow outflow and volume applied to land abe loss due to evaporation over the entire surface ot utah lake could ba compared with the gain dee to leonra waters from the irrigated areas and the waters from and other subterranean sour cea here is a subject worthy the conail oration cf all in the county a work which the commissioners of our county no doubt will be asked to appropriate money to aid the professor davs he can now promise that for every that biah county appropriates for this object the college and the U S geological sarven will expend at is a subject that should ba taken up now by the people of utah and nought about that it may be well digested by them when the time for ac kioa upon it cornea early next spring |