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Show Big Snowfall Everywhere Ollicial Report of Engineer Wheelon's Investigation Mr AVhceJon called at thU olllce ono tiny last week and by his request we clip the following rcpoit from the Dcser-ct Dcser-ct Ncwk. Jan. 25 1000. In rcponse to nutntroiis Imjulres for informntlot) regarding the ptobablc water wa-ter Kiipnlv for rrigatimi during the milling mill-ing season, the writer has Just completed complet-ed 0 tour of the water shed of the Wear River uud its pilncipal tributaries in a personal observation of the comlitimi c.t the t.now tail In tho upper reaches or the Hear rlvur and in the higher altitudes of the head waters of Thomas ami Smith's fork, thu two prlneipn1 trlliii taries of Jlear river above the mouth of Logan river. As these river- haw their source in the great "Sublet ltiinge," thi top of wIiom' mountains tnwir above timber Hue. they are admiralih I'oimeii to airord a bountiful ami steady suppl of water through thu inld-sumuu-r months. The fact that tlie.e si reams enter en-ter Hear river at points well below all the dams anil head works belonging to the irrigators in tho vicinity of Kniulolph and Woodruff plats, and nil works above Cokevllle, renders nearly all of their waters available for iiso by the iirLta-tion iirLta-tion works located between Hear bike and tho mouth of Hear river, Tho hist three or four years have been vcrv unfornuate In the deposit of snow in i'Iicso hlllr.. ami the liuhl lull has heen serlouly felt by irrigation entei prices along the river In Uenlllc, Cache and Hear Hlver valleys. These conditions now seem to have changed, ami the prospect pros-pect at the present lime, for plciitj of water for next season Is all that could be desiied, Thu mall route from Montpeller to Star valley pusses over these mountains through a low pais not far north of the headwaters of Thomas Fork. 'I Ills road has not been traveled by the public since tho llrt of December last, c.Nfept by mail carriers until .Ian. 1H, when 1 chanced to be one of the llrst passengers that had been carred since tho hlnradc. The snow is very deep and has been followed fol-lowed by strong winds which hau' helped help-ed to Hack it into thu L'lilches. Wt'liml that thu earth was so dry when winter set in that it could not Irce.e, the con-sequence con-sequence of which is that when the snows niejt Ju the spring Instead of running run-ning oil' the frozen ground and precipitating precipi-tating excessive Hoods, the grounds ill receive an abundant supply of this moisture, which will raise the subterres. trial water plane and replenish the springs upon which wu must rely for late summer water. In prospecting the Smith Fork, we In. tended to go as far us the htoner saw mill, some HO miles up the. stream from Cokuvllle, With four good horses on a light sleigh, we were ablu to get within about 10 miles of the mill, when we learned from n man wo met, who was riding one horso and leading another, that the teamsters at the mill had abandoned aban-doned logging 011 account of the new blockade, anil had decided to break a road out of thu hills and reach their home, This seems llku a fairy talc when we consider that thu last winter and also two years ago, thero was not enough snow to facilitate the logging at these mills. Taking It altogether, I would say that If I weru farming either under tho Hammond Ham-mond company's canals on the east side I of Hear river, or under the west side canal system, I should not hesitate to prepare tiu ground and plant to any crop I desired, with every contldencu that so funis nature has done her work thero wll bo water lor all. |
