Show lid id You Know But Read I This Story of Pioneering t And Get the Information johie me Interesting Facts About City Creek the 1 Boys Who Used to Fish in It and the theMen Men Who Turned the First Furrow Fur- Fur v ro in Salt Lake Valley By Albert F. F Philips m ID you know that Cit City creek along whose banks is a driveway j that is one of the most beautiful in the country and from fromich ich stream Salt Lake City derives a part of its water supply was waste te first stream tream in America to b be dammed by the Saxon Anglo-Saxon race I r ir t. t the e purpose of storing water t to irrigate ands lands on which to grow I ops I Do you know that In the long ago aero I I stream divided dl near the mouth of or ofte te canyon through which It flows low lowi i to two branches one flowing west id d ci the tho other south and west and that front fro of ot where the Freed Furniture Panr Is now located a a. bridge Bossed the southwest fork rork of the therean rean m and that from this bridge man many tho the boys boye now gray gray haired men In tilt Lit It Lake LOkO fished for beau- beau Ie lea ki And that two of or those thoe fisheri fisher Isher- jn ri i were D. D S. S Spencer r. general Pa pas pas- enger agent of the thc Oregon Short Line nd d George Lawrence rence a well wen known Did Dd you OU know kno that tho the first furrow hat hatos t at os turned In the virgin soil of or ofie ore ie e Salt Lake valley was turned fie sev- four nty y years ago today for tor It was wasn wasa n a July 23 23 1817 1847 that the advance nerd of the pioneers arrived In the alley aliey and the tho furrow so turned was wasn n the ground between where the pres- pres nt city and county building stan stands de nd the Junction of ot what la Js now Main nd First South streets TH THE E PLOW D d you ou know that three pioneers of 3 band who arrived In the valley alley on lat at memorable day In 1847 George orge W W. rown William Carter and Shadrach held the plow that turned lit lat virgin furrow Did you jou ou know that from the dam instructed across City creek on that ly 11 the first Irrigation ditch In carried the water to the tho turned ground In III which was waR ant anted d that da day potatoes c corn rn peas pena id d beans and that this was the benning benning be- be nning of ot Irrigation In America This is Js why the observance of ot otone loneer one r day has such euch a a. wonderful sig- sig not only to but to toIe toie e ie Ie country at large In ma a 4 volume that hos has Just been boen writ writ- n by Dr Ge George rge Thomas Thoma president the University of ot Utah entitled rhe he Development of or In Institutions der he says The Mormons were ere First the FIrst the t-the the first t ople pl to establish an extensive ct In America with Its economic ls r resting almost wholly upon Irrl- Irrl lUan agriculture second they second they were wre ie 15 e first people to establish Irrigation I I western America on an extensive I ale le third t they cr were amon among the first Ithe the United States to develop rules I practices customs custom and ws LW'S pertaining to and governing the tho w of water and fourth they fourth thoy T cre 1 if first to gIve gl wide Ide publicity to ir- ir gallon atlon Utah became becam known to the Uon and to the world Through the I Torts forts of ot the Utah pioneers a means is u be been n discovered and successfully where whereby b the redemption of ot I rge areas of ot land was made pos pos- ble LAW Utah enacted the orl original Irrigation law In the United States In 55 whIch did not not however howe contain he i provision pro for tor issuing b bonds the feature of ot the present day laws Character of ot water In thet state may bo be summed IJ P J thus The organic act of tho territory en- en eted in 1851 1861 did not mention the sTube sub sTub e t of IrtI Irrigation atlon but the territorial disposed of ot water t rights by grant and also dele delegated this OWer to the count county courts court of ot the thc soy sev- ral countries s and many such grants I rere re made b by both bolh the legislature ture and the county courts of some of the aunties The e act of or February 20 20 1880 pro- pro wed Pd for tor the recording of or vested rights to o J the use of ot water and for regulating theIr wr exercise The county selectmen Ere re made mado water commissioners for tor Mr their respective e counties and were empowered em em- powered to hear and determine all an ane e claims to the thc use of or water and to issue I certificates showing their findings s I So suits w were re to be maintained In the therl urta rl until the commissioners had f tt-d. tt td but appeal might be bo taken to toLe toe Le e courts court RECOGNIZED The constitution of ot tho state of Utah I ted Jn In n 1896 1396 declares article that jat all 11 1 existing rights to lo an any waters this state for tor any useful or bene bone purpose are arc hereby recognized and confirmed The act of ot March 11 11 1897 provided that an any party Put desiring to appropriate 8 water ator ter should post pot a notice at the In Intended Intended intended In- In tended point of ot diversion and In th tho th nearest nc-areat and should file a copy of ot tho the notice in the tho county count rec roe The act of or March 12 1903 provided that parties wishing to appropriate water should apply to the state en engineer engineer en- en for permits and for the issuing of ot certificates b by tho the state engineer when Vohen works have e been completed and water used in accordance with the terms of ot the permits The same act provided a special lal procedure for tor the adjudication of ot water rights rl The state I engineer was to make surveys and collect collect col col- lect Information regarding rights and submit reports to the appropriate dietrict district district dis die I courts Tho The courts cd were to de determine do- do ermIne termine- rights on the tho basis of ot these reports and an any testimony they might take lake This act is still In force torce Man Many rights have been adjudicated in or ordinary ordinary or- or suits between n claimants PROVIDED BONDS A district law was enacted In 1909 which provided for an issue leBue of bonds Some of ot the land served b by the reclamation reclamation mation matlon service has been en organized into Irrigation districts and the reclamation service also supplies s stored water to other enterprises under the tho Warren act of congress passed In 1911 and under under under un un- un- un der special agreements In 1901 an irrigation law was passed by the l legislature that Increased th the power of ot the state engineer giving f him general supervision lon of ot the waters of the state and the officers connected with its distribution The law of 1919 I is somewhat vague In that the control is definitely deft deft- of ot the tho waters aters apparently not fixed in the engineer or th the tho district district district dis dis- courts in so BO far as distribution is concerned However the water rights rIght law i is a great improvement In tn that It greatly water rights on all aU streams t provides that the rl rights J Jat of at all users from a n. stream shall shan be de determined lIe lIe- rather than thon Just the rights ot 01 the few the provisions of or the law i Iro- Iro ro- ro I. I viding for tor a a. minimum expense to the water users The Tho national irrigation law an n act I IThe of or congress was approved June 2 1902 and this act acl provided that the i proceeds from tram the sale of ot public lands in certain of ot the states and territories b might be used for the construction of ot irrigation works for tor the reclamation of ot i arid lands ROOSEVELT HERE 1 Soon after alter the tho enactment of ot this law President Theodore Roosevelt visited Utah As a a. candidate for tor vice pre president president l- l I dent of or the United States he nad had I via via- ls i I Salt Lake In the autumn of ot 1900 and again on May 29 29 1903 as president president pros pros- t dent of at the he United States the first president to visit Utah after atter her admission admission admission ad- ad J mission to the Union President Ulys Ulysees ce S S. S Grant being the first president to visit Utah t territory 1 In his a address delivered In the Tabernacle Tabernacle Tab- Tab President Roosevelt Roose had this to sa say about reclamation and Irrigation irrigation II tion Not Nol in recent years has any more I Important law been put upon the statute stat stat slat j uto ute books of at the federal government than the law a year ago providing for tor the first time timo that the national I government go sh should uld interest Itself In aiding aiding- and building up a a. system of irrigated Ir- Ir I agriculture in tho the I tam tain and plain states And h here re the government to a degree de- de gree greo had to sit at the feet of ot Gamaliel in the person of Utah for tor what you OU have done and learned was was' of ot Incalculable ble benefit to those who engaged in the framing and getting through the national national na nit- Irrigation law I For Fok or irrigation was first practiced on a large scale in inthis Inthis inthis this ata state ta WISDOM EVIDENT The Thc necessity of of tho the tho pioneers hero here led to the development of ot irrigation to a de degree dea a absolutely Unk unknown o n before upon this thu c continent and in In Inno no no respect was the tho wisdom of ot tho earl early pioneers made mado more evident than in the sedulous sedulous lous bus care the they took to pro provide ide for tor small farms carefully tilled by those who lived and benefited from them And hence it comes come about that tho the average eraC amount or of bf land required to I support the family in Utah Is 18 smaller than tha In in any other ther part art of tho the United I States s. s Now Nov uw the tho federal government must cooperate with Utah and Utah's people for tor the tho further extension of th tb Irrigated Irrigated irrigated gated area Some Som of ot the most moat Important Import Important ant provisions of the Uie federal act such auch as aH th the tho control of irrigation works by bythe bythe bythe the communities the they serve such auch as aa making the water at r appurtenant to the land and not a source of ot epe speculation u- u lation laUon apart from the land land all all that was aR based bast d upon tho experience of Utah Now ow one of ot the tasks that the gO gov government Y must lust do here in Utah I is to build storage reservoirs for tho the storage storage stor tor- age of tho flood water Besides s the storage of water there thero must ba bo b protection tion of ot the watersheds and that Js JK why I ask you to help the tho United States government by protecting tho the forests upon them And from this national irrigation law Jaw camo came the Strawberry reservoir and canal completed In 1916 which tho the great groat Wasatch range and has br brought thousands of oC acres to blossom as as' as the rose And from the small ditch which the pioneers constructed on JUl July 23 1847 has come what MUCH INVESTED Th The Tho capital 11 Invested sted in irrigation Uon enterprises lr In the state is tho the f H b being being- as of ot January 1 1 1920 From tho the d aa day y that the first furrow l wal wan ras planned d dand and wa water cr t turned on on the Ule CC Continued on pace 6 J S. S S DD YOU KNOW 1 t Continued from om page aGe 1 1 system has grown While the tho number of at farms n in En th the tho stAte t o on January Jaun 1 1 1920 totaled 2566 2666 th tho number of ot farms under Irrigation was wa or 86 6 pot per cent ont of t the whole The tol total acreage irrigated lon on that dato date was 1 acre The Te total acreage Irrigated irrigated Irrl- Irrl gated In 1910 was was' was was' In 1900 tho the number of or acres was ws and In 1890 the acreage Was as ant Tho The total number o of ot irrigation enterprises in the tho state on January 1 1 1920 was 2403 and acreage InC included ced in th the tho enterprIses enterprise enterprises enter enter- prise was the acreage under irrigation was was and and the area area that tho th enterprises were capable of ot Irrigating was acres The Tho capital Invested In irrigation enterprises en en- In itt Utah 1890 to 1920 1020 Is as a fol tol fol- fol ys lows p S 3 t g g t g e g I g Census Censul year yur g 0 C I I l 0 US 1254 4 Ua 1814 IDle 1010 1392 1122 1123 11 1000 woo 1110 8 32 1800 1055 1016 92 11 4 4 IARE ARE CLASSIFIED j The Tho capital Invested ted classified by byI date ate of ot beginning from 1847 1647 to 1920 I follows S I 05 O 9 r I 0 0 Date of ot beginning 5 g f E P r rS 0 00 5 Before for 1860 i. i 50 80 1581 1554 1860 t 6 51 1 1 1003 1870 1579 7 71 13 1110 1880 1859 r 1412 1800 1590 73 1412 1865 1565 1000 1004 1100 1006 25 5 18 8 81 laOs bOO 3 ISSO 2550 IA p 1014 1010 1368 42 00 p 1016 1010 1910 68 55 S 2004 Not ot reported 6 2 26 6 6 U. U 1277 Two vo Irrigation congresses havo have been ben held in Utah tah t first one ono In Salt Lake In September 1891 19 when sixteen states and territories were represented and which for three da days the theother p pother other in Ogden in September 1903 and which continued for tor four tour days former S Senator W. W A A. A A. A Clark of or Montana Ionta pre pre- siding Since Sine then there have been many gatherings In Salt Sal Lake In tho the Interest Interest Inter Inter- est eat of ot irrigation and reclamation plans the last one being a meeting of ot the p Western States Reclamation association tion ton which concluded its Is session this week MORE ON WAY There Thero aro many reclamation projects which are r now being considered In If tah Utah and which will wi arte affect t Utah t h the tho greatest of ot which Is the proposed dam In th the Colorado river at Bo Boulder ld r. r which If Ir completed will wi be the thc greatest dam darn In the world twice as high ds as s any ever constructed COO feet et and which would store acre foot feet of ot water In the tho United States about two fifths of ot the lan land irrigated Is supplied b by IndivIdual in In- In farmers farmers' works stock comp companies com corn p supply about third one-third of ot the area Irrigated while public organizations organizations under tinder the tho name of or tons ton's irrigation distrIcts districts dis dis- dIe dIe- and reclamation projects of or tho the government the remainder In In the past past too much water was used Irrigation tho the quantity used durIng durIn dur dur- In ing a year five vey ar period b being sufficient I to cover tho the ground gound to a depth of ot 10 to 20 feet teel It I is estimated that one cubic foot toot of at water per second flowIng flowing flow flow- Ing through a 1 a season of at days dl's will Irrigate acres One second foot toot will wi cover an nn acre nearly two feet teet In depth and and In ninety days will cover acres ono one foot o t deep or acres to a depth of at 1 18 8 feet teet or 21 6 equivalent to a 1 depth of oCr water of at a a little more moro than seven se inches per month during during a season of ot ninety days A miners miner's Inch of ot water will wl Irrigate from the five to ten acres tIle the inch equaling equaling equal equal- li ing gallons in twenty tour hours It has ha been estimated th that t there Is sufficient nt water to irrigate atc only about on tenth one tenth of at tho the arid region of or orthe the United States or from to acres res Fifteen million acres are now reclaimed OF ANCIENT ORIGIN ORGIN Irrigation existed In times of ot remote antiquity Jn in n the tar far east east In Babylonia and Egypt twenty centuries before Christ t. t At present pres the monumental I dam at in Egypt forms forms' u. u t. t reservoir rca res- In tho valley Hey of ot the Uie that Nile 1 stores stoics cubic feet reet of ot water water wa wa- wa- wa ter The Tle old barrage at the the apex of ot tho the delta dela o of tho the Nile Nie wa was constructed b by |