Show THE INE NEW W CANAL PROVISION FOR navigation AND IN CR creaser easer EASEl irrigation 1 I used to be customary in some parts of the world to which we have paid casual visits at one time and most probably is the custom still when any work of public importance was undertaken to inaugurate it with a dinner on an ali extensive scale at which an extraordinary amount of rather flatulent eloquence was expended amid the popping of champagne corks and the applause of the sago sage body assembled to worship at the shrine of culinary skill from froin the laying of the foundation stone of a new schoolhouse school house to the breaking 0 ground for a railroad the custom was wa s observed with religious fervency till the two became inseparably united we do things a little differently in our mountain home within the last few days the practical initiatory steps have been taken in a work of vast importance por tinee tince tolle tolie inhabitants inhabitant of this valley in particular and the whole territory ry generally a work too of great magnitude 0 considering our Te sources resources and population and everybody took their din dinner dintler Tier as usual on the occasion over seventeen n years of experience ivis leus ua us that though the soil we lt lat e n is un ni d and forbidding look lo 10 y n many inane LI yet it v will ill lii reward tl fl industry a id d tollof toil toll of the cultivator th in aban lne anee ine in e of the th products cf T 1 k t L uth ith bi bj 1 onside n side layle lie lle tracts of 1 1 L l lile ilie li div uno oan tn the i c of w il i lias hab 1 h r i 1 ime iut up to the fr r rn ra frol A i laek lack of water with ith whish hi h I 1 t i 1 t ate n bently iague ladle laii e r 11 idy ids lemu mita mii mit a i of f the wan i liow ilow through v i i parts pars 4 f the territory Torri tory and i juat jual ina have havi aln w a cut contiguous to d t I 1 of oath th ertle ments to carry their ft tuut f j tid id e compala i j I 1 av v iest list ti t iet lit e of moisture thee the e N 1 ilav t i thus far measurably 1 U I 1 prop at ru loi lol 1 ate to tie tue abilities of rie aie ae alein rini int nit nil their immediate re r 3 lit 11 1 i 1 this thi 0 nry ury the fhe ii etsity for an 1 u k 1 e id d v M jr IT r has been so aei api arl ari at for om oin time that the only i n involved was from what 31 I 1 e could it he be most enle enne dively and aorl ay obtain obtained laed various plans were pr tin qin tined poi od d an ani and ana A diu dm i used bed sed re resulting alting ul ting in the c A im am icem nt ut of a canal on the west s al I 1 f jordao jordan qa to take out a portion of th tle waters v of that til it river wa wim wlm which to a lre inre ire tract of land on the w vt tru rn ide adz of this valley and the wll nig hig of an artesian or well anthe on the north 9 1 ide of the eit cit eity city y as an experiment t f ve e if wat r coald could t be obtained by that ai ous alus shards in n both projects pi ejects have bf 1 1 taen t uen ken up finely and the labor labar on alit r ac D 1 ii progressing prop sing th tho canal on the west wet side of the jorian la is expected to he e ready for c v rr ving ying its ilg water vater unto slie the land it is 1 ignec to irr irrl irrigate ate by april next L h will not noi only secure lelent sufficient fsr wor wit r for lan ian 1 which has been under cultivation atlon af lut w wll wil ii li 11 supply a large brair braet t is yet uncultivated the directors of th the le artesian weli weil well vell compan company y hav have e pros r cited their work with assiduity A shaft feet delphas deep has been dug ina lna in a thick thi twi k stratum of layers of sand and gravel this shaft is securely ased eased tei tee tho the 6 boring apparatus has been called into requisition and the sinking has I 1 been proceeded with by that means still thus far that is only an experiment in ent though a m most 0 st important one for if water can be thus obtained at anything like amoda a moderate rate cost we may have ere many years an abunda abundance nee of such wells throughout the territory sending forth their streams to fertilize the soil in view of the fact that still further measures of this nature would have to be adopt adopted eI to meet our rapidly increasing wants a mass meeting was held hold a few weeks ago in the tabernacle in this fity eity city minutes of which were published in in our columns at the time and resolutions were passed to cut another canal of a magnitude far exceeding anything of the mud kind ever undertaken in the territory before for the twofold two fold foid purpose of irrigation and navigation its importance for this latter purpose is much greater than would be imagined 0 at a casual glance very comprehensive and elaborate statistics carefully prepared by hon joseph A young and published in tabular form in the minutes of the mass meeting convey much information on this and kindred subjects connected with the proposed canal and the trustee in trust in view of its utility for navio navigation gation gatlon purposes alone offered fifty thousand dollars towards its construction for the privilege of carrying granite on it to be used in building the tho temple tempie the benefits that will accrue to irrigators on the east side of the valley and in the tile city from the water vater thus brough tto them it would be exceedingly difficult to estimate but the surplus proceeds realized from increased crops through supply of water will in a very short time cover the entire outlay in its construction large though that amount will necessarily I 1 be starting near the boundaries of utah and salt lake counties not far from the old nish fish trap 11 it will wind its way alon alons the tile eastern side of the valley watering the land on its ita ob ourse courso ine inc including ludinIg a ve very r y considerable tract yet unbroken and reaching re a ft terminus in the city a short distance south and west of u here where the artesian artesian well Is being sunk its enair length b being boing eing C over thirty two miles from the point where it is taken out of trie ie bed lied of j jordan to the sugarhouse sugar house ward there will be a fall of twenty to the mile nitle from thence to its terminus in tho the city it will be on a ier ler level levei 01 the descent I 1 for the fl allt flit rat named distance vill I 1 the construction of gome six locks 9 two of which viii vili will vill be constructed near mr win caspara Ca spars place south of or mill creek with about four foun feet of water in in the canal there othere will be gommi clent elent fall for irrig irrigation atio atlo ji purposes in the tile level par part pant by tapping it atthe at the bottom I 1 the holding of water in reserve for i times of drouth and cons consequent scarcity is a most important item in every place that is t impelled to resort to irrigation k so that the surplus waters of one season may bi be preserved for jor fi another nother in 1 i egypt so entirely dependant on the i annual inundation officer nile for water to fertilize and moisten bolsten the tild soil several large reservoirs have been dug to thus hold a portion of the water in reserve the most moa mos t prominent of which is the i canal tanal which connects alexandria with the rosetta hosetta branch of th the nile eXile a reservoir nearly dearly fifty miles long and a hundred fea fel ide this canal is 19 on the site of an all tiu lut kut it artin artif I 1 cial elai lake moor is constructed by one of the old pharaohs Phara for the same i purpose we are not compelled to resort report to any such expensive a and laborious undertaking I 1 to obtain this desideratum for I 1 we have an immense natural reservoir I 1 in utah lake fed by several streams the principal of which is 19 the provo and with only onte otte outlet the jordan t which is thus the channel by which the canal will be fed provision being made by dredging to prevent the waters of the lake lako rising so as to anju injure re the tho land olf on its borders the fact of the waters of utah lake having risen seven feet during the hoods floods of 1862 and with all the drain through the beil bed of the jordan since bince having only fallen about three feet and a half gives a certainty of a continual and plentiful supply of water when added to the fact of its ordinary volume being kept up by the streams running into it again tile the water of the lake leave a heavy alluvial sediment on the soil it passes over consequently it will vill je be more mode than usually fertilizing to the land irrigated with it this sediment is deposited in insufficient lelent quantities t to render the bed of the canal in iii a short time impervious to percolation and thus removes every fear of a continual waste of water in consequence of the porous character of some of the soil through which it will pass this work then which may be truly called a great one is now going on about four miles having been already let lot out and the digging commenced the spirit manifested by the citizens at the mass meeting and the energy displayed by bishops sharp sheets gardener and brinton and JW J VV fo fox X esq to whom the letting out to contractors has been entrusted raise very sanguine expectations that it be long before the residue of the jordan jorda will be carried out of its former he bed bear on its bosom northward some 0 o of the cereal and mineral wealth of inore more sou southern parts of the tho territory and arld pour its richness cliness ri in gentle streams on the ghe the thirsty soil lying beneath benea thit it in its course legislative sanction is sought for far the enterprise and in a work of such moment cannot surely s be withheld it will carry wealth to the tho people spreading it over every lot and farm th that atre receives its waters works of this character are indicative of true progress and manifest a laudable desire on ou the part of the citizens to bring within their reach every aballa available accessory to wealth power we would rather hear of an anels anely see one ofie carai canal being dug dup to irrigate our lands and bo be available gor for transportation purposes than know often of ten ten ton gold mines being discovered or ten thousand now new stores opened the former bless bleis the entire conf coni community the latter only enricki the ow owners the assessment of a hundred dollars to each lot for making the tho canal is nothing 0 compared with the benedits benefits flowing from it as sufficient water nor for one season would on mhd larger of the lots bring double and in some somo r instances more than treble that amount over the amount realized tn ordinary 1 season s to the enterprise we wish all success and bid it godspeed god speed i I 1 |