| Show WATER IN KANE COUNTY the following has been received by governor thomas for the information of the senate committee committe eon on irrigation which is to visit this city next month kane co utah july 22 1889 to his excellency arthur L thomas governor of utah territory dear sir sin having been appointed by the county court of kane county to answer your communication of june 12 1 I beg leave to submit the following three fourths of the surface of our county is mountains covered with timber the other quarter is arid and land all of which would produce good crops by being irrigated the amount now cultivated in com to what could be by an in crose of water is very small I 1 wall give an account of each of the principal streams separately commencing tig with the PAST EAST FORK OP OF THE RIO EIO VIRGIN on the headwaters of east fork of 14 thia stream there are about three hydred acres under cultivation about one quarter cuartor of which is irrigated from numerous small ditches ten tell miles be below OW the canyon opens out 0 t futo what wha t is 11 called long valley V 46 i 10 jy wath with an u average width of half half a mile and seven beven miles in length in this valley are situated the w tow ns s of balley glendale glen ale orderville derville Or and mount carmel glen glendale mccu occupying 1 the north and mo mount carmet carme the south end of the vallo vall while orderville derville Or is is centrally located between Or Op derville and mount carmel in whitis what is known as the cove there aie are fifty ag acres aies of good land tw that could be cultivated by an extension of the orderville derville Or ditch and an increase of water about one mile below mount carmel a stream called THE MUDDY flows in aiom from the west on which about sixty acres are ibe now cultivated and more more cob id be by hn an increase of water prom from mount moun f carmel camiel the course of this branch of the virgin for seven ralles miles Is a succession of harrowa and small coy coves es sa said id coves ves containing in the aggregate rate about three hundred acres r of nod good land there is a small side ide s canyon at nearly every cove that dould could be dammed up te and d hl billed from the main stream in the winter season with sufficient water to irrigate the cove this is also the cas case 6 with the tuddy audly branch man many y 0 of f th these reser volra will be mado made in time ba by private kiva 10 enterprise 1 ter prise wt but in iii the e mountains moun uj afis at toe me head of this stream some ten nailer above glendale are located several ieves al alwon site on a large scale that could be used to hold the water up in the spring and let it down in the dry season being natural reservoirs they ate are used ha haw by parties who mhd farm fifteen or twenty acres beai near each of them one of these sites owned by B R G jolley could be made to cover fifty acres six feet deep ut it an expense of another owned by B R G jolley co could be made to cover acre fifteen feet deep at an ah e expense apse 0 of another owned by K potter co could be made to cover acres eight feet deep a at an an evju expense of ofton and yet ano another er owne owned by Le levanger could be made a ta cover forty gabres ten feet t deep ai an expense of bf these sites slag are am located in the h mountains among pipe pine 0 timber in 16 r and ati a removed from all data feer of floods which might might break or fitl fill theta them wit with mud or debris all the present owners ask is to be allowed to use the same amount of water frob the reservoirs that they now use there Is always an albun abundance dAnee of snow water to fill ahse se reservoirs and anci P plenty lenty of use for the water wata in long loing valley KANAB ORLIM on the head waters of kamb creek are some very fine farms comprising about acres acrea of lua under cultivation and twice that amount of pasture land under fence there are 1000 acres of good land that could be cultivated by an I 1 increase q of water and one good reservoir site on the property perty of property woolley and beam Seg fro which could be made to cover ten acre aten fe leeni 4 beep at an expense empena le of 1000 I 1 mediately below below these armei Y at ie lower end of the valley ey the mountains coin come me sain almost toger and by bailot ia da w long a aad ad feet wl ear could le 1 made that would co boyna wilf half mile nua square q a at an av aaeng depth of thirty feet fee efi feight lat miles below this p pooai i M L anderaon has a reserve reser jjr g operation it is a 4 little fittie on one side of the narrow vahay with ith an area of about av I 1 he has constructed a 41 ata aff miles long g to 1111 fil it i which last spring in one oile week to of eight foet feet ke he i cultivate cultivating teen acres this season andal and not use half the water up he enla to irrigate fifty acres from this aest season twenty ficq ve miles down daw 1 head of kanab creek is iq ite the to owa kanab ab the county seat of count county there arp are no 1 sites in the canyon 09 abay but along the footh iUs jda both d are smal ai sies f aja could be filled in 14 the winter a aal increase the amount efland of land cu cui abed many times JOHNSON RUN BUN alana chiq stream for tw awen e 1 t miles the val leybas valley has ah a aye width of half a pile palle a all rh g glod and m many side ca canyons ayi that w woi make 1 gabd 9 reservoirs rs out a at a small pense ense p the only laud land cultivated I 1 this stream Is ali the ranch and about tier acre siti town of Johns johnsson fon twelve mil of kanab Hana band and thia te is all wate from sp Tings the stream being d during tho the summer sewn SM W when ren ul it t rai baias when it a gabhi torrent which is also 0 the ca caw the A spring ahik for to or three I 1 in but bu 3 the grandest bd reservoir r s the county ia st 4 miles below the town ot soh here Is a long vi valley aley ru raj aud west and the joh crosses right chiou mel the ca tt it and breaks through th the ajo couil on OH the south side the rap gop st it bleaka break thi through ough is not uirt tool one quarter quarte of a I 1 vi biani I 1 a dam 40 feet hl high the he water ahei atei would lu fc along alm valley for five length lend and ope ole thile mile in about two miles below this tal situated abbit A sixteen hund of the best of land AM j COUNTY is situated over the Bou southern the great basin and fibus katr toward the colorado paver average fall of snow in oar j taina is not less im than fifteen f the sprig of the hearland ye year arland and summer rains the amount Q of that ru bibb into the colorado by hundreds of streams that at other times is some thUg cannot 1 be eti estimated mated the it part park odthe water could bev book back barthe by the construction 0 of o n doirs ehe of 01 ja land ter and reservoir sites il 1 t y unlimited all thalis 11 lacking n g 14 0 capital and labor abor to in attim them we have a osmate JW one df caf ahbe th be most extensive el stock tl batt ut tk ati S n sparsely bor and the p poor ana with without 0 ut the mewaka eam I 1 d develop the he greater resources of the cao MUy t 1 4 ff 1 fabe government would take jaw oil 06 seme of these large reserves bd hereby phereby furnish h employ mat peaple they would then bec baia Pablo ble to th construct many smaller ode y private enterprise ami so BO chwi maney expended would be dabby used in the one direction by submitted rb ted W hf bt BOWMAN 0 MAX county surveyor Burve |
