| Show TIlE THE BEAR RIVER VALLEY By DY 13 Evans Manager of the Bear Dear JUver JUer Water Co This body of fertile land In I County Utah thousand acres in extent and capable of ot sus BUS taming a population ot of tillers ot of the soil of ot fifty thousand tho thio l people Is traversed by two railroads and Is susceptible of Irrigation from the tho great hear Dear RIver canal Lying nt an un ele eho elevation of ut to feet above the tho lev love level el eloC of Bait Snit Lake and wholly without mountain streams to so common to other othor portions of oC Utah tile thu reclamation of or orthis this vast tract of ot land Involved tho the seemingly Impossible task ot of raising the water of ot Dear Bear from Its chan channel nel tiel which la Is i to feet below tho the level ot of the northern limits of at the tho val sal valloy hey loy Other streams of Utah havo have bell been bellr more r easily turned out upon the land but hero here was wao a mighty river with wa va water tel tee sufficient DU to Irrigate thousands thousand ot of acres of ot land flowing uselessly to the Great Bait Halt Lake During nil the years while other othor parts of ot Utah being settled settle and nn ten Irrigation gation ration ditches were being built many plans hane were made for tor the reclamation of ot tho the Bear Benr Valley Vailey by b moons moans of or a canal carrying the WAters of ot tho the river around the be upper edge of ot tho lie valley To Tt r accomplish this the tho water had to be turned from froni the he river far Car up UI the eon can canyon yon and carried through tho the rocky gorge for tor three miles before reaching a Joint where the main canal should begin To Construct such uch works required ed immense sums of money ami to obtain capital seemed out of oC if the question efforts wore were made mado to ob obtain tale tain congressional aid but without aval lit to 1880 all nil plans failed un on til UI the ant Ur Lake and niver mer World Worl company was ivas organized by John It After Arter the lie company compan had m made fl the most moat elaborate plans f II of ot cost mind and careful a It U was ns us shown to the projectors that teat time there th rl was Vas a supply BUPP of at water ivator tuiTi um UJ to sate ten times the ho amount ot of i lan that lal could be irrigated In tha thu valley villi below under tho the canal system slem A Also Aho b ot of the he large larce channel of ot the he river along Its us entire cours coure no prior appropriations ot of water vator had been na Hn r above or below ha the h can yon on this ae save l the tho canal company ab all solute rIght M to the entire flow ot Of the stream which ts b without doubt lap to tn Utah the tha I t Jt double assurance of at II a never naver tailing g ter Supply the practical con oon at this I t I In RS aye w aa begun In The initial tat It was about aboul three mites miles up tho nor nar row canyon at the tho upper end of tho the valley where Bear River hor leaves heaven Cache valley alley not as ns many persons person suppose In Inthe Inthe the tho Henr Lake country I hero born the tho river omits cuts through the mountain rung range Into bite tho the Or at Salt Ball Lake basin bailin At this point In the dyer r was vaa constructed a n adam adam dam on the tho solid bedrock using one million feet teet of ot timber and between thir thirty thirty ty t and forty tons of bolts this thin whole construction WAS WAI backed and solidified by masonry The progress of ot the rapid torrent was then effectually o checked and ln the groat work of ot carrying the de do desired desired 1 sired volume of or water vator along the tile steep steal and rocky gorge corgo for Cor throe three miles was successfully accomplished At the point whore where the main water way emerges es Os estrom from the canyon nod and nt cit other points along the lie route were vere built largo large di dl division Ii vision gates for or the tho purpose of ot distributing the tho water into division canals and aed laterals I So 80 perfect Is tho the canal In all Its tea fea features tures turee In permanency of ot construction cArrying currying capacity perfect gradient water supply thAt It la Is ac tic acknowledged to be one Cue of ot tho the most com corn completo plato pleto systems In the United States and It was awarded the lie only Prize against t tan 1 nil all HB ita competitors at the Worlds Fair I lit at t Chicago In iii The Tue great water vater I shed thAt hot supplied the water for tor the near Bear Silver niver supplies to It ns OM much wa wn water water ter In July Tuly and September as no i iother other oilier streams III In Utah are supplied with at hood flood time which Is usually In May and June giving assurance to tho the far farmers I mers nira under the tile system y tem of or tho ho matur maturing lag ing of ot their crops All 11 this vast system was constructed at Rt the tile enormous expense ex nS of ot two mil nih million million lion hino Ilvo Iho hundred hun thousand dollars This Thill gigantic enterprise with many malt thousand anti and acred of ot land Is 19 now owned and mill controlled d by the Utah Sugar company ot of Lehl the worth of ot canal anti and lands buds IAn ls combined would not be less than three million dollars All practical farmers who understand Irrigation realize that ono one of ot the most Important factors to the of Ir II Is natural drainage ge This vat val ley ly Ip surpasses all the valleys alles of or Utah In this ono one particular There are ar three natural sources of ot drainage of ot between n 3 and 4 miles each fadl running due north northend northend end south through the he valley viz 1 The near fleer JUver Malad alad ItIer and Salt reek Creek These rivers rhen being below the 1 surface land of at the valley alley from tram twenty to sixty feet give Rive ample drainage for tor 1 all land 1 Under this canal system during th the year your 1901 Wl there was actually Irrigated eighteen thousand acres neros of land nod in INC 1902 there thore will be bo not teM teas than twenty five thousand acres In showing nn an In I w ert for for 12 1102 aver over Ski INI of ot rf 4 par por cent which Is III i of at the a and I of or the tho farmers and people re ref I I Biding siding under the tho system Of ot whom there thero are uro not less at nt this date dale than thirty five Ilvo hundred county where this enter enterprise prise Is situated has hns u n population of ot often otten often ten thousand threw three hundred City is Its county neat Tho county has hasa n a first drat class school and many mallY tine lino school II Tho The other towns of bt note noto In the valley alley aile are aro Willard Hear River City Oar Jar Oarland Oarland Jarland land JOW Thatcher and CorInne Transportation facilities are aro ample tho the Oregon Line railroad running through tho the valley from south louth to north along tho ho east side sl o anti and tho the Southern Pacific running across the valloy vahloy from east eaRt to the tho west No tracts or 01 parcels parcela ot or land owned by tho the Utah Sugar company are OCO farther than lIght eight or ten miles front tram shipping points There Thero hUll ban been a good rood market for tor the tho productions of pf tho the valley valloy It bo boo boIns belog log Ins so near Salt Lake City nod Ogden The quality IU III of at the soil Is unexcelled une cello It will produce all nil kinds a of or grasses groins grains roots root and fruits Brigham City the he county seat neat of ot the vallo In ha re 10 renowned for the production tituS and quality of Its fruits Tho The fertility fe of tim tha soil Is 10 equal to any laud land In Utah There Thore are many farms In tho the valley that liar bar barVest Vest est from tram C G to S 8 tons tOM of alfalfa per aero acre for tho the season The rue average alfalfa crop Is III not less than 5 6 tons per aero acre for fec fo Irrigated land Detailed statements of or crops crepe can cnn be bo given without number 35 to CO GO bushels bushel of wheat 63 65 to 90 DO bushels ot of oats to bushels of ot potatoes raised to the acre acro while tho the many tents tests that have havo be heed ii made of ot the tho sugar augar beet boet show lint tho the beets raised rained hero here equal canal those thosa raised In Utah county the home homa of at the groat Industry and ot of tho the Utah Sugar company Coin pony It U has hia often been asserted that acres of ot Irrigated land In Utah will equal qUAI tho the production of ot ICO acres acre of land whore rain Is depended upon Thin Is not caused by b the fertility of ot tho the soil lIoti alone hut but also by the absolute guru gnat of at crops rop which Is cU given n by being able lo to supply water vater at the proper time It Is thin certainty and An control of tho the water ivator that enables the Irrigator to con can confine confine fine his lila holdings to fewer acres auth nn count with confidence seldom mis misplaced misplaced placed upon tho the yield ho may acquire The Tho uniformly mild climate In hi tho the Groat Orent Salt Snit Lako Inlo Is III In no loca been location ion tion more noticeable alile than In the he floor noar Valley It being BO so thoroughly protected by Its mountain ranges and receiving the tho balmy breezes breezed from tho the Great Groat Salt BaIt Lake The Tho la is a n lit littie tic tie lower than Snit Salt Lake 1111 8 City Long JoM seasons Reasons pro lire enjoyed and seldom If It ov cv over over er or do cIa crops oiO suffer Buffer from early or late Inte frosts A more moro Ideal location could not be bo found for the thc beet 1 elt sugar lIu r Industry ann ana this vant nt body of ot land boil and ivator be being beIng being ing owned by the time Utah Sugar company naturally moans means tho the building of ot one of at tho the largest larest b blOat beet ot sugar factories In the he west Tho The enterprise of at the Utah Sugar Buttar company compon with its parent factory at nt Lo to Lohi hi and at nt other points point with Its system of ot pipe lines linos etc eta Is so sl sowell well welt known that It needs neel no comment but It tt gives assurance to county contY people of at what they may ex ox expect poet In the time future Corinne Utah Doc Doe IB 19 1901 |
