Show WATER communication eltor box elder news I 1 havo have read your explanation ol of the hammond canal companas comp anys proposition to the city and am wondering use brigham city has tor for 20 second feet of water the farmers of tills this locality could no doubt profitably use UBO this amount ot of water in ins x a as s it would w ad but 1 GOO 1600 acres of ct i illie dou 1 land an il 1 IT f the duty ty ot water er Is placed at ia 80 or 2000 9 acres it if placed at the municipality however would only need for domestic pur purposes posea but about five second fe feet et to meet its doare mands f r ye years to come I 1 was OTIC ot of the incorporators of a company compan organized years ago to furnish ogden with its first water supply when its population greatly out numbered that ot of brigham city and we only had one second toot foot for years this I 1 personally acquired by buying or one of the oldest farms in weber county to which my father in the early fifties had bad built a canal frou brou the ogden river and selling it back to the owner without the water this ono one second foot Is all the water that ogden city ever acquired by purchase so tar far as I 1 know and I 1 think I 1 am acquainted with all their efforts to secure water oden is at present using because OL of its ila ample supply from the splendid artesian wells in the upper valley alley v between seven and eight mccond teet feet with its population of over recurring to my proposition of obtaining underground water tor for our supply I 1 would say that I 1 am credibly informed that two pumping plants like the one owned by calvn richards of our city would supply an irrigation stream equal in gizo to one sixteenth of box elder creek this well arid and pumping equipment cost in the neighborhood of six hundred dollars and tle cost of operation per year is it amply irrigates fourteen acres of land at an I 1 original outlay of a little more than forty dollars per acre with a yearly expenditure of a trifle over throe three dollars per acre I 1 at this rate ot expenditure an amount of water equal to the whole of do box elder creek could be obtained tor for less than twenty thousand dollars and the yearly upkeep of these pla plants ints including power would not exceed two thousand dollars until such times as they would have to be renewed there is no question but what a few of such plants would furnish a 1 I quantity of water equal to brigham cites needs tor for years to come and that tile the same could readily be exchanged tor for primary rights in box elder creek my idea would be to go into a district that needed draining and convey its underground waters into a catch basin centrally located and above land now irrigated from box elder creek F from rom this catch basin the water could be pumped into the farmers laterals literals late rals and after its feasibility and permanency had been once established no difficulty would be experienced in exchanging it for box elder creek primary rights for surely it if the farmers around Brigl brigham iaiA would make mak such an exchange for canal water 0 devils gate reservoir water they would certainly exchange for this as it would be free from many of the uncertainties of water from the tha two sources dameli jamea or even of artesian water as advocated by our honorable mayor ills his proposal strikes me much more favorably than iny any of the other two and still I 1 am reminded that ogden cites fine supply is now menaced with a number of law suits that may prove very expensive and embarrassing yours truly JOSEPH 11 II WEST drig brigham liagin city utah mar 5 1017 1917 |