| OCR Text |
Show jjgtf ENTERPRISEJiROWING OffcrsGoood IflccgS fr Investors and Hoawwkers, 'S5KJ- - 25K Reservoir Site Is an blepnt Ore, nnd State ExperlmepJjFarm U Djlng Goeotk. Edltror Record i-r somotllmo past I havo boon muohMtitorostod in tho reports that 'hvP reaohod mo though tho mod turn, ofjtbo press and qthorwlso of tho progress that is bo-Wig bo-Wig mado In tho settlement of tho town of Entorprl9o2lfi3btne northwest part of Washington county, suddoslr-ing suddoslr-ing to soo for mysSQl made it my bulsuoss nbont tbn lof May tuonth to pay n visit to that actlou. Bolug much ploasodjaad interested by what I saw I thii)0t may bo that somo at least of the'j.waders of tho Rooord would bo interested In road-Ing road-Ing of tho sort of plagjSJt is. Entorpriso is sitaated southwest from Codar City a?K dlstauco of about forty-fivo mliand is about throo miles from tSelliuo between Iron nnd Wnshlugtoujispuutioq. Tho towu is laid out iae of IJ4 ncros oaoh and is looatedat tbo mouth of Shoal Crook canyon, d Betwoon thirty and forty families compriso tho proseut popualtiou, which is being iuoreasd by now settlors set-tlors at forquont lutorvala. Fivo miles up the? oauyou is tho town of Hebron, wboso inhabitants aro rapidly moving down to tho now towu, ouly nbout threo fanillios or parts of families, beiug left. Tho whole of tho Hebro'u wator has boou sold to tbo Enterprise 'Roservolr com pany for capital stook ,lu tho com-1 pany. Tho deal lu relation: to tbo 1 wator and the consolidation of the interests ,of tbo twotowns has beau. , undor cnnisderatlou for a oonslder- abJTleng-fUli'f" eettloA mout of . the n3atterlwi(s'ioubtos3 bus-tonod bus-tonod by tbo great daniago'douo to tho buildings in Hebron over a year ago J by tho sovoro earthquake that took plaoo there, when n numbor of lino brick bouses were greatly damaged Tho old town prosouts an affecting appearanco, especially to ouo who has soon it in its brightest days, and I could not roprosB a fooling of sorrow sor-row as I marked tho ravages which tho floods, seismic disturbances, nidod bv tho leveling marks of time has wrought in tho Inst thirty years. Flvo miles further up tho orook to tho south is tbo noted rosorvoir slt-uotod, slt-uotod, and. as no visit to tho Entorpriso Entor-priso sottlomout would bo complete without n sight of tho big pond, 1 mado it n part of my business to havo a look at it. I had hoard it described, des-cribed, aud wns consequently proparod to soo something out of tho ordinary, but I was not prepared for tho tino sight that burst upon my view wbon, upon ronobiug tho summit of tbo hill that overlooks tho site. I saw a largo body of water that had boou impound ed by tho Entroprlso dam. I liau uo moans of measurement, nnd in-deod in-deod such an irregularly shapod body of wator would bo difficult to measure, meas-ure, but I havo no hesitation in saying say-ing that its area is at loast half a milo,whilo Its depth is forty-fivo feet at tho dam, und of course varies from that depth to loss than an inch at Its outer odgo. Tho dam itself is a very romarkablo structure, aud was covered cov-ered almost entirely by tbo wator, whioh came within a foot of tho top, and within about ton foot of tho outor edge, making it appear ns if tho groat pond was hold buck ly a rook wall about ton or elovou foot thiol: uud perhaps per-haps fifty foot long. At each end of tho dum rlsos n ollft of rocks sixty or seventy feet high, aud sloping so llttlo from tho porpon-dioulur porpon-dioulur that when anothor fo"rty foot of dnm sbnll bo built tho dam ou top will probably not roqulro to bo moro than fifteen or twouty feet longor than it is at prosout. It is tho intention to add that muoh moro to its height bo that when tho work b finishod tho water will bo eighty or ninety feot deep ut tho dam. To mo it nppoared as if there would nevor bo sufiloient proolpitatlon on tho water shod to fill sub roservoir, but tho men who have Uvod tboro for tho last thlry years eay that thoy uro confident that there havo Imjou a number of years when there has moro wator run dowu tho orook thuu would havo filled a rcsorvolr as largo as this will bo whon it is finished. Living as 1 havo in this arid ro-glou ro-glou uoarly all my llfo it was 11 llttlo strain ou my courngo to climb down tho moutnlu sido skirting tho whiter lu ordor to roach tho dum, and ns tho wind was blowing from tho water ovor tho dnm I hardly dared to approuch tho outer edgo sutlloontliy oloso to look ovor; lu fnot I found It nooos-sary nooos-sary to lie ou my fnco in ordro to got a good view of tho masonry, which is built inolining iu townrds tho wator und coucavo in its outor faoo. I was told that tho dam is biiilt of maaoury for a uumbor of feot lu thlcknoES and then backed with rock and earth, aud is of suoh thickuoss nt tho bottom that it requires a strong arm to throw n stono far enough from tho top of tho dam to strike outside of its limits Inside tbo rosorvoir. rosor-voir. It is tho intention to add several feot to tho hoighth of tho dam tho proseut your. Tho oxporimont form locatod nt Eu-torprlso Eu-torprlso wus us interesting to mo na was tho rosorvoir and as I havo mado a thoorotlcal study of tho sub- joct of arid farming for tho last two yours by reading ovorytblng that caino In my way on that subject, 1 was proparod to look ovor tho altun-ion altun-ion with Bomo understanding of its moaning. I was muoh holpod iu my oxaminalou of tho furm by thocour- toous explanations of tho superintendent, superinten-dent, Mr. John Day, whoso oUlolont manogomont is a orodlt to himaolf and to tho nion who employ him. I found tbo most of tho fall sowu whoat drying up, nnd this was tho case regardless of tho timo whon it hud boeu plantod, that Is, wbothor early I iu tho fall or late. Tho grain was! I all in about tho samo stato of for- Ivrnrfltinfla. illst bosiunltlK to hettd. Tho causo of tbo drying up Is uu-doabtedly uu-doabtedly attributablo to tbo fact that ' tbetgrain la all, or nearly all, far too (covered "that It ' wJilld'M.bo oujideal f stand for a farm where thero was an abundance of wator for irrigation, providod that tbo land was good nnd strong. It wns evident that all tho molsturo tnat tho precipitation of tho winter nnd spring mouths had provided, provid-ed, had boon required to moko tho thick growth of straw, nnd that there was no molsturo loft to produo tbo hoads. Mr. Day said that ho bad plunted ouly fortyflvo pounds of eeod to tho acre, but that the conditions for gormiuatiou bad boon so good that apparently ovory kornol of grain hud grown; nnd not only that, but owiug to tho fine growing weather for grain this spring, it had stoolcd out much moro than common. Ho is of tho opinion that n harrowing would havo been n good thing in tbo spring, but as ho is not thero to boss, but to do as ho is told, he did not do any Imi rowing. It is doubtless all right, as tbo condition of tho grain is as stroug an objoot lesson ou the ueod of thin grain aud spring bar-rdwiug bar-rdwiug on tho arid farm as it would bo if that courso had boeu followed, and to tbo Intelligent observer will muuo jusi as jusiiug an impression. Tbo Spring whoat Is not nearly ho thiok aud at presont bids fair to mako a crop, as also dnos some of tho fall grain whoro it is thin. The crop of rye that is now ueurly roudy for tbo harvest looks flno and loaves no doubt as to tho practicability practicabi-lity o Hucoessfully raising ryo in that locality without irrigation. Among tho most lutoretsiug plats ou tho fnrm were two that have boen devoted to grass, ouo to a variety of brorae grass, and anothor to 11 spooios of meadow grass, tho unmo of whloli I wroto down, but bolug in a hurry I wrote it in tbo handwriting that I gonorally use whon writing for tho I compositor, nnd ho not having hoard tho ui.me of tho grass before, in not able to make it out. Thoso two grass plats show thut tho raising of pasture crash in that loal-Ity loal-Ity withont irrigation Ih going to bo a success, if the propor nttuntinu is given. The alfalfa ou tho farm looks as if it also was going to be a bucoohh. j Tho benefits of tho dry dust muloh wns plainly demonstrated on the summer sum-mer fallow, whoro tho ground wuh so moist three inches below the surfnuo tLftt 11 handful of it could be mado to hold together while it was thrown twenty feet. This on land lylug nlougsido of the full wbent that wua H dying for want of wator. Tho outlook for tho pooplo of Eu- H torprlso Booms to bo vory encouraging , both from nn irrigation uud also from nu arid farm stnud point, but be- foro thoy will bo ablo to maKo inuon H bondway, iu tbo most of instuueot., VB thoy will bavo to adopt somo measures to secure food far tboir work ouimulu, moro than tbo raugo nirords, us it it) H impossible for any furmor to do muoh H in breaking up now lnud with 11 H team or teams thut havo to pick tboir H Hvina on tho ran co nt uigbt nftcr hav- H ing worked all day. H Ponding tbo establishment of H lucorn Holds by irrigation it seomu - H to mo that n cousidreablo amouut of H good food could bo obtained by sow- H ing fivo aoroa or moro on oaoh mun'u ' I farm to ryo, and giving it arid farm H troatmont. I Wbon I visited tbo sottlomout ovory H I man scorned to bo busy, and ouo of , H tho most ploaslug sights I sa w iu tho j 'H town woi tho entire- nbsou'co of lon) 'IV iteli' H erson-th'd-streofm ' .xMX" iwS- tagjH JOSEPir T. WILKINSON. ,,'' ', TH |
