| Show reservoir Kester voir site ten thou band feet above sea level being built in uintah county i material p ceress was made durine during 1028 1928 on the construction work of the irrigation Irrig aHon project of the whiterocks irrig company in paradise park ly bated tn in the athley national forest on mosby mountain at a point awen ty seven billes miles north ot of lapoint the elevation of the reservoir site is aa feet above sea level the dam lm ima round founding inz waters in the storage re rel l ene waca horl completed will be lee long lens on top 42 feet high and wil i impound acres feet of water th dam u III be of earth ork ark con can tt rUtion with dry mahonry backfill and nd rock to within fifteen feet of the top this dan dam la is now more than SO 00 per cent finished and the plans call for its completion by the autumn of 1929 9 the total cost of the enterprise at its inception a as estimated at 70 but this sum will be exceeded E II 11 jorgen jorgensen en of roosevelt is tn in charge of the construction work AH all fo y the corst construction ruction ot the dim dam and phases of the pro jcck were transported by teams and rucks tucks to the eite alto via the mosby mountain road which terminates in para die di e park this road connetta con necta alth the alley roada roads of northwestern ere uintah and oi oer et these arteries with the V 1 S 8 40 highway to the thc present the farmers farr nera ot at the tridell aridell end and lapoint districts district i have defrayed the coeta of the nork tie sic necessary try funds bedric raised by menta ments and a loan the burden lias be come heavy and it ha hall been decide to request financial aid from the fed era cral reclamation service to complete the project when the dam la Is completed the lake formed by the impounded vaters wura will cover acro acres A considerable arno nt rit of arter la is at in the area above the partly completed dam and by cooperation of the na lional forest and the state fish and game department more than 58 rainbow and lake trout have been planted in the body ot of water and I 1 the fish have made remarkable growth I 1 the lake Is closed to fishing but in due coure ot of time as the trout attain legal growth groath it will be opened to fish armen during the season seasons established I 1 by the fuh and garni gams statutes of the hale the water impounded in the lake like will bused be in putting tim new lands in the lapoint and tridell aridell vicinities under irrigation end and to rep replenish lensh exist ing water supplies of the irrigation as ss em serving these districts the reservoir Is supplied from the water waters of te creek and the stortie will irre neatly atly increase the volume ot of irrigate I 1 teg water tor for the district districts alth ith conse I 1 quent expansion of agricultural areas the Pa radle lc park water storage pro eject Is one of the major development along the loath lope slope of the uintah 1 mountains mount alna and the enterprise la Is aal an contribution to the development ot of the uintah basin basins agricultural land resources all water supplies upp lles oll of reservoir projects in the mountain have their sources in the protected watersheds ater sheds of forests above them then it 13 recognized by stockmen and larmer farmers throughout the basin that one of the most important functions ot of and lne urne titi fits derived from the national forests li Is the protection of the |
