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Show Tht Springville High School Choirs will present three concerts to end their successful year. The first wEl be Thursday, May 8, at 8 p.m. at the Spring Showcase. On Tuesday, May 13, the Men and Women's Chorus wffl perform at 8 p.m. in the SHS Little Theatre. And on Thursday, May 15, at 8 pjil, Vivace, Sfejers and Concert CHoir will be in concert in the Provo Tabernacle. Concerts are free and the public is invited. Shewn here is the Men's Chorus which has grown from 12 members to 38. Volume One Hundred Seven poropl by Carl H. Carpenter, P.E. Springville has been the beneficiary of an irrigation system since its settlement in 1850. According to the "History "His-tory of Springville," by Mary J.Chase Finley, water was first diverted from Hobble Creek for irrigation in the spring of 1851. The point of diversion was at the intersection intersec-tion of Swenson Avenue and 700 East, behind the former Kolob Stake Center; and, served mainly Plat "A" in the city. Other diversions were Community Night at Springville Art Normally closed on Monday Mon-day evenings, the Springville Museum of Art is going to open the museum once a month for a Community and Family Night. All citizens of Springville and Mapleton are invited to bring their families and enjoy a night of culture at the first Community Night Monday, May 12, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Those attending will be Mmmiusil "This has been the greatest great-est year in the history of the Springville Art Museum," said J. Brent Haymond, president of the Art Board of Trustees at the Annual Meeting Meet-ing of the Art Association last Wednesday. Over 50 people gathered to hear the annual report of the affairs of the museum and see the unveiling of two paintings from the Spring Salon. They were also treated treat-ed to a talk by Museum Director Vern Swanson on Artist Wilson Jay Ong's "Judgement of Tokyo" received a Jurors Second-Place Award in the Spring Salon now on display at the Springville Museum of Art. Entries for this year's salon numbered 973 of Rf) fk jGSL A w w y $ V W 1; r subsequently made as the city and surrounding cropland developed in Mapleton and west of Springville. Water was also diverted from Spring Creek, Spring Creek Springs, Dry Creek, Little Spring Creek, Wood Springs, Matson Springs and Big Hollow. Thus'by 1900 the irrigation system was established estab-lished essentially as it exists today. When Springville was incorporated in February 3852, water rights were individually owned; however,-the however,-the city assumed responsibili able to meet the artists, view the best of Utah visual cultural cul-tural heritage through the Spring Salon exhibit and see the permanent collection on display in the new Centennial Wing. Tours will be conducted through the museum a well as activities for young children, chil-dren, teens and adults. From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. the Mt. Nebo Children's Choir, pepmt 100 years of the art movement move-ment in Springville. Haymond said that over 80,000 people visited the museum last year, a large number of those being children. chil-dren. The museum is one of eight entities that are a line item in the state budget, and all of this money goes to educate young people in art in the state. The Statewide Art Part- SPRINGVILLE, UTAH 84663 9 MIS LI U ty for management and delivery deliv-ery of irrigation water in Plat "A" about 1877. Disputes over water rights resulted in a court decree dated March 18, 1905 issued by Judge Booth which adjudicated the water rights of Hobble Creek and Maple Creek. The Booth Decree was subsequently amended January Janu-ary 4, 1907 which allotted all of Maple Creek to Mapleton City; Hobble Creek was divided with 23 allotted to Springville and 13 to Maple- ,tOn. . After 50 years of irriga- Monday Museum under the direction of Leslie Walker, will perform, along with ensembles from Springville Spring-ville High School. If you cannot attend this Community and Family Night at the Museum, watch for the event next month. The nights are being sponsored spon-sored by the Springville Museum of Art and the Statewide Art Partnership. m M Museum nership,. headquartered at the art museum, is reaching out to more children than ever before through educating them through Art Talks in the schools and Evenings for Educators for teachers. Posters Post-ers and postcards of many art works at the museum have been placed in all the schools in the state to help in art education. The Art Talks outreach program had 200 presentations presenta-tions last year in over 100 schools, and the Evening for which 263 art works were juried into the show. The exhibit has a wide variety of works and was juried by Alexey L. Steele and Ellie Sonntag Stephens. - May 7, 2003 m U I tion it was evident that Hobble Hob-ble Creek was a flashy ; stream; there was ample water in April, May and June; but during July, August and September the flow often dropped to less than 10 cubic feet per second (cfs). Thus, a supplemental supply for late season irrigation was badly needed. The Federal Reclamation Act was passed by Congress in 1902, and one of the first projects authorized was the Strawberry Valley Project in ,.Vtah-ln 1917 Springville, Mapleton and other water users in south Utah Valley entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Interior to subscribe for the water developed by the Strawberry Stra-wberry Project. Cost of the Strawberry Project was to be paid back to the U.S. Treasury over a period of 45 years by an annual assessment to each subscriber. The assessment was levied on each acre-foot (AF) of water; and included the repayment or amortization amortiza-tion of the construction costs, annual operation and maintenance mainte-nance costs and an emergency emergen-cy reserve fund. Strawberry water was assigned to individual tracts of land; but, having contracts with individual water users Educators expanded to nine evenings throughout the state. Haymond also talked about the progress of the new wing addition to the museum. He indicated that they still need $120,000 to finish the project. Last year $200,645 cash donations and $66,000 inkind donations went to the new wing project. "The climate control is finished paving the way for the museum to be accredited," accredit-ed," said Haymond. This will make it possible to secure national exhibits. The second floor of the new wing is complete except for the tiling of some of the galleries. Tiling the foyer at the east entrance needs to be completed on the main floor as well as finishing the new kitchen. The walls on the lower floor have been plastered and painted also. Plans for 2003 are to finish all the tile, the education room and the redoing of the offices. Haymond said that the museum has hired Wally Carr to take care of the flower beds. The city allocated allocat-ed the money they would have paid someone else to the museum to handle this. "The Clyde Company has committed a donation of Continued on page 7 T-r I TB-UNIV sftLT LRKfc CITY u Price 500 was very cumbersome and almost unmanageable. Therefore, There-fore, the Springville Irrigation Irriga-tion District and the Mapleton Maple-ton Irrigation District were organized in April 1917 to contract with the United States for their respective allotments of supplemental irrigation water from storage in Strawberry Reservoir. Under State Law an irrigation district is a quasi-public quasi-public organization with powers to own, operate, manage and finance irrigation works. It has the authority to incur indebtedness, to bond and to levy property taxes on the lands included within its boundaries. In 1917, the Springville Irrigation District entered into a contract with the United Unit-ed States for 4,490 AF of Strawberry irrigation water to be used as a supplemental supply on all of the land served irrigation water by Hobble Creek. The area that received Strawberry water included all land irrigated by Hobble Creek except Plat "A." To enable the Strawberry Project to be more efficient and manageable, the Strawberry Straw-berry Water Users Association Associa-tion (SWUA) was organized in 1922, and all subscribers to Strawberry water became stockholders in the Association. Associa-tion. Each acre-foot of Strawberry Straw-berry Reservoir storage water was represented by one share of stock. Thus, Springville Irrigation District is represented repre-sented by 4,490 shares or 4,490 AF of water n the Association. This water was then defined by three contracts con-tracts executed between the Strawberry Water Users Association, the United States and the Springville Irrigation District as follows: (1) Dec. 29, 1917 for 2,400 AF; (2) April 9, 1920 for lmM mil i I . mm i iniij mi Springville art patron Louise Clyde is shown here with the painting she donated to the permanent collection at the Springville Museum of Art. Titled "Vista-Torrey, Utah," the oil landscape was painted by Kathryn Stats of Sandy. Louise and her late husband, Blaine, have donated donat-ed many paintings to the museum which are now on exhibit. The painting was presented last week at the Annual Meeting of the Art Association. F Number Nineteen 2,000 AF; and, (3) Nov. 1, 1930 for 90 AF; which covered cov-ered the total of 4,490 AF of Strawberry storage. The contracts also provided provid-ed for the operation and maintenance of the Spiing-ville-Mapleton Lateral Canal to be the responsibility of the Springville and Mapleton Irrigation Districts. On March 9, 1929 the Springville Irrigation Company Compa-ny was organized to more efficiently manage the irrigation irriga-tion system. Its service area included all irrigated land served by ' HobVile Creek except Plat "A" and the Highline Canal. Each individual indi-vidual water right owner transferred his or her water right to the company in exchange for one share of stock. The company issued 4,000 shares of stock, and the average yield per share is 5 AF based ont he average annual supply in Hobble Creek of 20,000 AF. Of this total 15,510 AF is Hobble Continued on page 3 SHS Orchestra huge yard sale Saturday The orchestra students of Springville High School will hold a huge, combined yard sale this Saturday, May 10, in the Springville Art Museum parking lot from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Students and their families accumulate items throughout through-out the year especially for this yard sale. This annual event is a major fund-raiser for the students, who will use the funds to pay for their tour to California at the end of the school year. V |