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Show i RESOURCES OFj MILLARD . Its Topography, Dry Farming Lands, Irrigation Systems, Soil and Climate ' X river to Its tract u land. The Melville company take its water through Hurt tier and on to Its lauds east of llurtner The lieseret Irrigation Company also has a diversion dam southwest of Hurt ner, as shown on the map which the canals t!nl water the lands around Oasl.s, llcM'tv!, J 1 1 nek ley and Abraham When we consider that the Sevier Klver ai.il its tributaries has a drain age are;, of .Vital square miles, that at least f' ".('in) acre-feet go down tlx: river Into Sevier Lake every year, am! that there are numerous reservoir sitcf where this frightful waste might be saved, we can understand what an 1m meiise area of now desert land In Millard Mil-lard county can be brought under cultivation. cul-tivation. The Soil, The soil of this whole region has been formed by the slow wash of centuries cen-turies from the mountains and can yous. It Is a clay ami sandy loam, very retentive of moisture. It is of tin-know tin-know u depth. A well sunk at Oasis 'jiM) feel found no bed rock. It was "Imply a conglomerate of sand and clay and gravel, with strutas of water it different depths. Ii Is capable of raising rais-ing to perfection all kinds of grain, hay ind vegetables. What It Is capable of liroilueing Is told In the various sketches throughout this Issue of the I'hronlcle. The lands of the Irrigated regions tiave several advantages over those of the humid. The mineral and organlc 'onstltuents of the soil do not leach ut. They remain In the soil as food for the plant, anil successive plowlngs Driiig new food within reach. Such a oll requires no nrtlllclal fertilizers. I'he occasional turning under of a leguminous le-guminous crop Is all that Is needed. IV e have seen land around Deserct from which lueern has been cut continuously con-tinuously for IS years. Hut of course he returns grew smaller. It was lazy 'arming and not the most profitable ise of land. All Irrigated land contains mineral Milts, which are highly beneficial, but in excess of which Is Injurious, and Ihe best of such land can he ruined by inscicntllle irrigation, (iood land has liecti so ruined around Oasis and will have to be drained to restore It to Its former productivity. An extensive drainage system has already been planned by the i)eseret Irrigation Company Com-pany at a comparatively small cost. The way In which the land Is ruined Is by excessive Irrigation. The water cannot seep awny as fast an U la applied ap-plied It raises among the roots of tin alfalfa and standing there kills them. It stands around the root nf the fruil fr aef tills thm it stand on the I Millard County has an area of 6.774 ! square miles and a population of 6,118. , Ills topographical features can be aeeu from the accompanying map. It Is j bounded on the east by lofty mouti-ij mouti-ij tains broken by many canyons, w hose I clear streams, thickly forested sides and rich grasses afford Ideal pasturage i for thousands of cattle and sheep throughout the summer. They also j furnish rough lumber, fence posts and fuel for the people of the valley, Al- though It is mostly a National Forest Reserve the people have the use of It under reasonable restrictions. The i settlements on the east side are lo-icated lo-icated at the mouth of the canyons from which How these mountain streams. I The growth of these settlements has depended upon the amount of water available for Irrigation, but with the development uf dry farming along the bench lands at the foot of the mountains moun-tains their growth Is only limited by the great area of dry land available. The favorable climatic conditions and the lighter character of the soli makes Ihese eastern settlements especially adapted for fruit raising, as will be seen from our special articles from these various settlements. The dry larmlng lands run from one to ten miles out from the foothills and extend from Leamington on the north to below ltl.u k Hock on the south. The land carries a heavy growth of sage brush and the soli is especially suitable for the raising of all crops adapted to dry farming.' The average precipitation for all this region list year which was unusually dry was about twelve inches, and there was no failure anywhere. The average for the past six years was about seventeen j Inches. During the past three years nearly the whole of this dry land area has been taken up under the enlarged homestead act, which penults the set-1 set-1 tier to take up 320 acres by going on the land, making his selection and paying pay-ing a nominal fee. No residence upon 'A" - m? l..,rs,,'rr44f About the only way one can now era- of -water for the dry season the lieseret Irrigation company constructed the big Sevier Hi blue reservoir, the location of which is shown on the map. This reservoir has a depth of tin feet at the dam and backs the water up the river for a distance of eight miles. The b'g dam was built under the direction of Knglneer ('has. W. Hardy, a ' reliable engineer of 4(1 years experience. ex-perience. Hefore building this dam he sunk 20 or 2.1 test holes with churn drills to a depth or 1.'. to IS feet, entered en-tered a clay sub strata at 7 feet, which . Increased In density with depth until It; became extremely hard; he then , conferred with Slate Knginecr A. F. Doreinus, and their combined Jmlg , ment was that It was needles to go ( deper. Mr. Hardy then Installed two pud- died core walls 12 ft. thick to a depth ( of about 10 ft. Into the clay sub strata. , and about 2.. ft. apart. He also built , two puddled core walls, each S rt. thick and about 2f. ft. apart, and over tlne walls built the dam with a 4 to , I Um up-stream and 2 to 1 slop.' down-stream. ( A few weeks ago. Knglneer Hardy, CjA. Tush, chief engineer of the Twin Mils Jjmd & Water Company, Richard Rich-ard Lyman, professor of engineering , In: the University of Utah, and Fred , Strain, field engineer of the Delta , Land and Water Company made a thorough examination of the big dam. , A a result of the close examlua- , tlOIl made by these engineers, all were , unanimous iu con. hiding that this dam , Is perfectly safe for present capacity of the reservoir and for any reasonable !'! that may be made hereafter, pro- vldlng the necessary strengthening Is , done and safe slopes observed, all of which will be done should the dam be raised. An Interest In this reservoir was purchased by the Melville Irrigation Company which owno lo.ooo acre of land around Burrner or Delta, an the yat town. In Millard Is soon to bo ,iuiitfd: -m wrtn'TnrinirwiiWK Juab C.oun yi. wJ, .L TL I ' ' MAP OF MILLARD COUNTY. tain these lands Is by purchasing re-1 linpilshments from settlers. i The western side of the county Is mostly desert land, as there is little! rainfall. Hut there Is generally plenty of snow In the winter, so that thong, j amis of sheep find an excellent w inter , range on this so-called desert. There are also several valleys like Snake Valley, fed by small streams andl springs upon which are located settlements settle-ments and ranches, and where every j settler raises abund int crops and Is prosperous and contented. I Lying between the lofty range on the j east and the desert on the west Is the i greatest area of irrigable land in Utah. And the means for Irrigating It Is at hand, for the Sevier River the largest river In Utah runs Its course through the county, finding Its outlet In Sevier Lake, a large but shallow body of I water, whose evaporation equals the Inflow of the river. Irrigation System. While the waters of the Sevier had been used for many years to water the land around lieseret snd Oasis, spring floods often carried the dams of the i settlers away, while drousMs In the I "umnier often left them without s if ' filient w.iter for their crops To pre j vent t!iee disastrous fliMxU In the j ii!ng and to conceive this abundance i Company, which recently took over the Oasis project, has also purchased a half interest In the reservoir. It has 33,ooo acres of land north and west of Hurt ner, and lo.omi acres to the southeast. The Delta Jjuid and Water Company have acquired the right to raise the dam of the big reservoir twenty-five feet, which will give It a capacity or 14."..ooo addtional acre fet t( The Sevier Company also has primary prim-ary water rights to Irrigate D.nuo acres of land, or a total water supply for about uu.iMio acres of land. The Delta l.and and Water Company has a total water supply sufficient for approximately ap-proximately 6.'..("K acres, and the res ervolr capacity to store It. The head gate of the Sevier Iind and Water Company will be taken out about g miles below the Sevier Hrldge reservoir, and their canals will water the lands around I.ynndyl. and wet of Oak City, llobb-n and Fillmore Ii ill be a hlk'h line canal coviing lands not reached by any other Irrigation Irriga-tion system. The Melville and I w-tra companies own Jointly the diversion dim above llurtner. This raises the water Into the Jolat canal running along the south bank f the river. -Two miles above Hurtner the Ifci'a company takes ltt w tier under the railway and across the Hiirtace of the land, evaporates and leaves behind an excels of mineral salts which destroy vegeiiiion. Only drainage can restore such lands Thai there is not an excels of In Juiious mineral salts iu ihe soil of Mil lard county Is proved by the following analysis made last year by It. A. Hart, jill charge of the dr.iiiiace InveMlKa-'tlons InveMlKa-'tlons In Utah, by the C. S Department of Agriculture Fight samples of soil were analyze.!, taken from a depth of from one to four feet from the surface on lilid- around Oasis. Deseret mid Hinckley Th" analysis of the sample j;ave n, following alkaline contents: j llmikley No. l a. chlorides, .or,;, p.r jcent; sulphates. 072 per cent; carbon tales. ,(,: per cent. No. l b. chlorides, .::oi; sulphates, l;t; carbonates. 04 v No. 2 a, chlorides, .017; sulphates, J 12; carbonates, "l. No. 2 b. chlorides, est; sulphates, I is; carbonates, .'i.'.T. Oanis No. In. chlorides, .or,:,; ul Iphates, 072; c irbotiatea, lit',!t. No I b. chlorides. .05 sulphates, .07; j carbonates, ti.'i No. lo, chlorides, ,u7; sulphates, "lil ; carbonates, ft 'l.t,I)'lei ui I 'ape ) |