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Show IUUKUTIM IS BOX mill. Some S luti.Hica Collect ltd Lnst Year by Engineer Fori tor. In Engineer Samuel Fortier's report re-port on irrigation we find the following, fol-lowing, which will be especially interesting in-teresting to the people in Box Elder County: In Utah less than one per cent, of the entire area is irrigated. irri-gated. Although most of the available avail-able water is appropriated, by storing stor-ing the surplus flow, preventing loss in transmission and by mote economical use it "is believed there is enough water available to wa'er ! all of the valley lands. Among Mr. Fortier's tests we find the following: fol-lowing: Box Fhler County Poor Farm is located within the corporate limits of Brigham City. A portion of this farm, containing -1.7 acres, was ' separated by a furrow from the remainder, re-mainder, and water conducted to il through a small lateral on which a weir was placed. The depth of water on the ctvst of the weir was read to sixteenths of an inch, and the duration of How to live seconds of time to each watering, and both recorded by Supf. Thos. H. Cromp-ton. Cromp-ton. Strawberries, Loo young to yield, occupied IS acres, and the several crops raised from the remaining re-maining V2 acres, are given in the following: alfalfa 9 tons; squash 4 tons; peaches 420 pounds; plums :!.0 pouinls; grapes 1 1-")0 pounds; cherries 50 pounds; total 27,970 pounds. .Tests were made in Box Elder County, on the farm of 1 lenry Kotler, whose son, W. F. Rotter, aided the writer in collecting the necessary data. A three acre field, having a trifle over 1 .7 acres planted plant-ed in onions. ind the remainder in Goodrich potatoes produced H5 tons of onions and '00 bushels of potatoes, or at the rate per acre of 19 ', tons of onions and 42') bushels of potatoes. , Xels Mad.-on's peaiili orchard atid sfr.rvherry plat, are also highly high-ly spoken of. 500 eases of strawberries straw-berries were produced on a little over an acre an 1 a half. The west branch of the Bear Biver Canal syst-m has its head-gafes head-gafes in Hear Biver Narrows, iiox Kldrr County, and Hows in a soiilh-ernlv soiilh-ernlv direction through the canyon for a di.-lance of three miles beyond, be-yond, to what is known as thr Corinne head-gates, wh-ae if di viiles This canal lias a tlioreti-eal tlioreti-eal carrying capacity of 1 ,0'M sec.fi. Box Khl.r Creek has a d".. barge of j about o0 s. e. ft. ! Mr. Fortier writer This Bnn.Lu: , "Kindly conwy my (hanks, if an opportunity occurs, to the citizens of Brigham who so generously aided me in mv w n-k of Iu-l sum- mer." |