Show KESEKTOIIi AT GDXMSOV c Tjin people of the town of Gun nion in Sanpeto County have lately completed tho construction of a restnoir which Is a very valuable improvement and will prove to be a fourco of wealth to those sharing in its LcoefII I I situated at or near that confluence of Six MIle Cretir and iuipetu river and about six I mil H Jh of JIautl I I located in n lrootP l hgllow through whIch I the river flows and the water Is retained by means of a dam about 300 feet long extending acirsi the I Iiolloiv and ubout twenty fctthlgb Tim dam ixilout one hundred feet thick at thrbacaiid fromIiheeh to II twenty frCtthick at the top and Is f aceil witii rock on both fides to I reent animals from burrowing through it CxUndint through the dam and about on a level with the tied ftbe river is3 twofoot tied pipe Ctcdwih a cast irqii < ep gate by means of ltlch > the water In the rewrvoir may bedrawn 1 when necessary IhuJjcdy of watcrvaritsfroxu ouefonrtli to onehalf a mile in width and from two and a half to three raUus In length and has aii average uVpth of about eight fre when brought to within fuurfctt of tin top ot the dam widths maybe tIOlt ss lilt safety Between four and flea linndred acres ot laud I coveretl by the ral c whIch was irchaFeJ bytlio Gunnlson Irrigation Company which built and o > vns the reservoir The cost of this important improvement I I very email compared to it actual I value Only few dollars per acre was jiald for the Jand covered by It while t IK cotofthe liam was only about SioOO as the dirt far it was very handily obtained The reservoir reser-voir In constantly fed andfevcu If not replenished during the summer Mtison its contents would L suffi cent to Irrigate thousands of acres of land ph I j The people of Gunnjson have tan t-an cnmp many otberUlem lts might follow with great advantage The farms blow this reservoir have not been more than half Irrigated for several years pastanJ with plenty water their productiveness will probably prob-ably l 0 doubled Hence a water I supply that will admit of this will practically double the valueof those I farms It js no farfetched estimate to suppose that this reservoir has In croed the value of the firms to be irrigated from it to an amount ten times n great as its I total cost 1 other words the men who have bit it au j who own it will derive a thousand dollars worth of benefit from it for every hundred dollars kaveexpended upon it In the same manner many other other ceUIenicnU may ctllize the natural sources of wealth within their reach But iu the construction con-struction of reservoirs one point should always be kept in view that of security Let tho dam b made so thick and strong that the bursting of it will bo placed beyond the range of possibility Tho Gun iiison eople have evidently aimed t do thIs by making their dam 100 vet thick ut the base and from fifteen fif-teen to twenty fet thick at the top with a total height of only twenty feet and a depth of water behind I of only sixteen feet These dimension dimen-sion would teem t make the dam safu beyond the remotest possibility of a doubt |