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Show A MAMOTII WHEEL. Iloistiiis- the Water Out of Green River. The Way They Will Irrigate Land Out in Uintah County. Jensen, Uintah. Co., April' 0, 1S91. Correspondence to The Dishatch In reading your ever wekome newsy paper, I thought a few notes from a new country like this would not come amiss. Jensen is a town located at the mouth of . Ashley river, on the riht bank of Green river, about twelve miles southeast of Vernal. It derives, its name from Jensen's Ferry, which is on the main thoroughfare between Ashley valley and Colorado. On leaving leav-ing Jensen, going north, the first farm we come to is known as the Big Bottom, Bot-tom, containing about 610 acres, owned by Messrs. A. G.' Johnson from New York City, and Bijlings Bios, and J. K. Bullock of Provo. Mr. A. G. Johnson is seeding enough land with the anticipation of harvesting about 5,000 bushels of small grain. On leaving t he bottom, we come to Burn's Bench, a tract of land containing con-taining about 4.000 acres of land, wateri d by Brush creek, and which is rapidly coming under cultivation. From Burn's Bench we continue noun a) me. m umi creeK iarin, wnicn is situated at the mouth of Brush creek on Green river, and owned by J. II. Murray, formerly of Spanish Fork. Mr. Murray and sons are farming about 300 acres this season. Leaving the Brush creek farm we continue, about three miles northeast uj Green Kiver, and strike one of the "bi-ven Wonders" of this country, the wbe.-l, which lias just been put in Green river by Napoleon Le Beau, Geo. L 'ugston and Joseph Packett. They have a fine tract of land ot about 500 acres, which they propose to water by means of these wheels put in Green river. The wheel they have just completed com-pleted will hoist water twenty feet at low water mark. It carries forty buckets, each holding twelve gallons of w ater. The wheel will make three revolutions per minute, which will hoist 1,440 gallons of water per minute and about 2."3.G00 gallons every twenty-four hours. This they claim will water about 150 acres of land. To make a wheel it takes about 2,000 feet of lumber, the total cost being about $350 for each wheel. If the wheel works O. K., there is about 5,000 acres of the finest land in Ashley Valley that fecan be successfully watered and fanned by this method. Wandeizek. |