| Show ARID LANDS ARE BEING RECLAIMED figart in state engineers office on application for iff irrigation ignation projects the extent of magnitude of the act lul ul and proposed reclamation of the nd lands of utah and the utilization to far motive power of what has hitherto leen teen waste water is strikingly if dry told in the figures of the state en tine erla offee since the opening of the office in hay 1903 appl icat ons have been filed and nd granted for the appropriation of rater that meant the irrigation and ton consequent sequent reclamation of hundreds of thousands of acres of what was sterile unfruitful soil oil and for the use of water that in volume produces thousands of some soma idea of the extent to which ater tater T ie Is being demanded for irrigation and nil motive power purposes may be gathered a in the statistics eluted secured from abo state engineers office for the perm from october 1 I of this year to nov 11 during that time aepli captions were received and filed asking the right to appropriate water for irrigation purpose cohring a total acreage to t be benefited benen ted of acres to ro carry this water the total estimated length of main line ditch is miles in the same period of application applications for water righta rights the motive power lave ai as the estimated total horsepower to 0 o be produced acres with the fiti mated length of pipe line four miles the impetus to irrigation was given fa in the opening of the uintah reservation in 1905 and since that time there 1112 n been a steady increase in the tho de bind for water the applications re melved eved in the state engineer engineers office during the present year exceeds by va per cent the total received during the e yeara years of 1903 and 1901 in the figures given several biff projects are included notably those of emery county in the price river reg ll 11 1 the applications however em trace practically every part of the vale in salt lake county water rights have been secured upon the big and little d and other streams for roof ive iva power po er winch which will be distributed in alta AIN park city Hing barn canyon and Garfi ehi and other towns the increasing denied devia id for water means the rapid and substantial development and growth of the state in the reclamation of the sagebrush and salt grass lands As tho tha land is made fer tile it means the influx of colonist colon its of the taxable property and balth of the fate state generally |
