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Show ' View of Pump House of Lewiston-Bear Lake Irrigation Company in which is housed the large Pumps which divert water from Bear River to the Lewiston farming Lands. rj - -.---- - -;" a- " -JV - - j- . Z J FARMERS REJOICE AS WATER IS DIVERTED FROM DEAR RIVER Pumps Demonstrate They are Able to Do what the Designers Said They Would. Lewiston and Fairview Farmers get Additional Irrigation Waters. Tho long talked of pumping plant west of Fairview for pumping water for the fertile lands of Fairviow and Lowlston Is now a reality. Tho water was turned into the canals on Sunday, Sun-day, following a demonstration in which over a thousand persons participated. par-ticipated. Tho officers of tho Lewiston-Bear Lake Irrigation company announced on Saturday, through tho columns of this paper, that they would start tho large pumps and turn the wator into the canals Sunday Sun-day afternoon, and extended an invitation invi-tation to all Cache valley citizens to be present. Over 400 stockholders as well as many others, representing nearly all the towns in the valley, wero at tho pumping plant site and sent up three big cheers as the foaming foam-ing wa'ter climbed the Bteep incllno, propelled by tho pumps through a largo reinforced concrete pipe. Chairman O. O. Hogan called tho crowd togother promptly at 4 o'clock, and the program consisted of music by tho Richmond Silver Cornet band; invocation by William Blair of Lowlston; Low-lston; address, President A. L. Hyer; technical rovlow of the construction work on tho plant, the difficulties encountered In Its construction, by Engineer T. H. Humpherys; address, E. R. Owen, of tho Utah Power & Light company; address, Joseph Qulnney, Jr., of tho Amalgamated Sugar company. Mr. Hyer paid a high tribute to tho engineer for his devotion to the work, as well as to tho contractor, Joseph E. Wilson, Jr., both of whom havo been sonstantly on the work since it began last fall. How well they have done tho work can only bo told after a thorough test has been made, but from outside appearance, tho entlro Job receives tho commendation commen-dation of all who boo It. On could not hope to find a child more proud of Its first toy, than tho stockholders are of this now plant. The pumped water supplements that of Cub river when theso waters got low In tho latter part of tho Irrigation Ir-rigation season. Arrangements have been made with the Utah Power & Light company to supply tho Irrigation Irriga-tion company with 100 second feet of water from Bear river. This water Is stored in Bear lake during tho high waterseason and Is later permitted per-mitted to flow down tho natural channel, chan-nel, where It assists In developing power for two or threo electric plants and Is finally diverted to the farm lands by largo pumps propelled by tho electric power which it help3 to create. The plant has cost the farmers approximately ap-proximately $80,000, and, nccordlng to T. H. Humpherys, the engineer, tho project right now Is worth to tho farmers upwards of $250,000. f aaaflHIl llllalfl I vflflfljii vJJflll MBflflflflMBkiiflflflfll avaflHHHEiX)' taaaflllA. T. II. HUMPHERYS, Engineer. IflflflflflKW v '. ,t;VJ IflflflflflflflaWJPtflfl KiaaW .fll aaaaaaaaf'B """J JOSEPH E. WILSON, JR., Contractor. This estlmato is based on tho Increase In-crease in yield tho water will bring to tho late crops of tho Lowlston and Fairviow sections. Probably tho boot crop Is moro benefitted than any other, consequently tho Amalgamated Amal-gamated Sugar company Intorests havo given valuable aid to tho fanners fann-ers by advancing tho money for tha building of their now plant, which Is destined to do a great deal to do-velop do-velop tho rosources of this onco barren bar-ren country. |