Show STATE A If fN EN UHf LINE T fOR MORE MORElAN LAND lAN PROJECT U. U S S. S Ready to Aid I If People of Utah Do I Their Part t By E. E 0 O. O LARSON Engineer in Charge of Reclamation i t. t Investigations in Utah f Utah tho ol oldest est of or the western wester states In point of settlement ha has hast jut t two reclamation matlon projects but 1 It ItIs ItIs for lor ho more moro It if th the Is s In to lino now people want them Undo Uncle Sam I Is read ready eady It t. t is up to the tho Interested plo of ot the to do tho the rest ret problem Is to provide pro suitable repayment and to clear up ul water rater rights f 1 I The rhe Strawberry reclamation Utah project Is tho first built buill in to b by act of of or This was mado made possible congress In 1910 Tho I Echo reservoir loser reser It has Just been voir was next has government go completed Tho The for Cori appropriated had fad the mone money projects Tho Hyrum Byrum for or two years earB surveyed and are arc arenow which cinch have b been en Provo Prove are action now ow ready for or lake lako and Moon oon river h cr Ogden river Gooseberry PROVO RIVER LARGEST development Isho Is 15 The Th Provo Pro river ricer tho ho largest of or all aU and will cost from Crom to depending chief The Tho adopted IX upon pon n the plan features natures of ot tho most comprehensive earth filled dam 15 An 1 plan lan Ian are arc half half- river the tho Provo feet feel et high on die above o tho the Utah Utah- Utah Wasatch county aunty line a 8 reservoir ISO feet deep cep reaching eight miles up to Charleston harleston SO 80 feet of ot dead water and ad a A. power plant similar In size to x tho Olmstead plant at nt tho the dam lx Ix tunnel from tho the Duchesne a to t the Provo emptying water Into tho to Provo six miles below the lake the region a diversion canal from Weber Teber now built the tho removal ofle of the le Heber Provo City branch of the thc Western railroad rail rail- Denver er d Rio Grande Grando road lad and the building of ot a new lino po from to Heber Heher City a aanal canal anal from tho the dam north past Pleasant Grove American Fork Lohi JAhi ohi and across tho the river ri near the Point of or tho the Mountain a 3 branch c canal final nal i Into to Salt Lake Lako county count bringIng bringing bring bring- ing g in some somo new lands and giving Salt SaIt alt Lake feet acre-feet In Parleys Parley's s creek for tor exchange wat water r a branch r canal caw down own tho the west side eldo o of Utah man u tan lake to Goshen bringing in some Borne now lands ANTICIPATES S. S L. L USE This plan of ot course ourse anticipates that chat Salt Lake will take tako acre- acre feet of ot wat water r which will bo be carried through Its own conduit I If Salt and if Ir the theland theland theland Lake Lako does docs not take tako this land wc west t of ot the lake lake- Is not brought in there will bo be no use for or diverting water Into tho the Provo Tho The big plan IB Ss built buill around 1 feet acre of ot water Other projects project are arc Ogden river river river-A A dam at Magpie into site Ito holding back feet acre-feet of at water or a n. dam darn at Magpie holding holding holding hold hold- ing and one at Huntsville holding costing costin between 3 and The dam at Magpie would bo be 20 feet high If IC the Huntsville site Is used the tho dam there will 1 bo be 60 feet high and Mn Mag pio ide Iio dam considerably less than 90 20 A dam tn alto also is il bein being surveyed at Skull Crack creek This would bo 00 feet teet high Moon oon lak lake Uintah basin Dam b Dam 5 feet reel high feet acre t storage storage stor stor- Il age e cost coat 1 Goos Gooseberry bern oot foot foot storage In Sn Emery count county tunnel to Sanpete county Hyrum feet acre of or water water water wa wa- ter cost project waitIng waiting wait- wait Ing on farmers Tho Blanding tunnel has lias not been boen In tho the foreground during the I year ar Other projects discussed from time to time but not being pushed at present are Lower IS river Price river Dolores Bear river Utah lake Rush Plush lake lako and others other Tho The policy of oC the bureau of or rec now is to provide supplemental supple mental water for lands now cults cults' rather than to bring bring- in ne neland nev lands land although Provo Pro river would bring in some new lan land |