Show f A la jurvey r o lurvey W M Made Mader a Of Ui t r C a B r f ft i t f f p fI I Underground Wate ater r Line me tin time ago the editor of the Iron Ly ty Record Interviewed T. T T.-C. T. C. C B But But- t- t Jr of Pomona Calif relative to Idea dea of the amount of underground r that might be available in Ce i Valley Butler being an engineer and student of underground water ater a es while in Cedar City made a aLave Lave tive survey of three or four days arrived at the following ere are approximately acres nd which are tillable and in Cedar valley and I believe i there is an annual recharge to underground water basin of t ap- ap tely acre feet of ot water the rain fall alone I do n not t tjust just how much water is put In InI I valley through the ditches but butI I Information can no doubt be ob- ob locally The grand total of feet of water distributed upon the acreage would show how many manyI I feet or inches of water per acre dependably obtainable annually i pumps throughout a long cycle ears This quantitative pump 1 and ditch water added to the I water falling on the tilled lands the local Judge of to determine what crops can be be profitably be grown on pump farms I According to the information I have received the rain fall comes omes first then thena a period of high water vater In the ditches I then this tapers off to insufficiency I for y valley irrigation lon PU purposes Then Thenis I is the time pumps can pick up the load from the underground acre acre feet supply supply which I I am am sUre sure Cedar Valley contains and nd first supplement nt the ditch water and then substitute entirely for It it Mr Butler states that it It would woul necessitate a more close survey of two or three weeks duration to definitely determine the amount of water supply to the Cedar Valley from the natural water sheds of which hundreds of miles lie east of Cedar City He states that in his opinion the water sheds supplies for the Cedar Valley underground underground underground under under- ground reservoir a constant and steady stream that hundreds of pump wells such as are now found in the valley cannot reduce Mr Butler promises a comprehensive sive and detailed account of the survey he has made and his second one which he contemplates making within a I short time tune and his account will be published as soon as received from the gentleman v |