Millard County Chronicle | 1912-04-25 | Page 8 | Irrigation System.

Irrigation Syitem. While the waters of the Sevier had been used for many years to water the laud around DeHeret and Oasi. spring Hoods often carried the dam of the settler away, while droughi In the summer often left them without sufficient suf-ficient water for their crops. To prevent pre-vent these disastrous floods In the spring and to conserve thi abundance water for the dry season the Deseret Irrigation company constructed the big t vler Bridge reservoir. This reser voir has a depth of CO feet at the dual and back the water up the river for a distance of eight miles. When we consider that the Sevier Ulver and It tributaries ha a drainage drain-age area of 5,r00 square miles, that at least 500,000 acre-feet go down the river into Sevier Iike every year, end that there are numerous reservoir site where this frightful waste might be saved, we can understand what an Immense area of now desert land in Millard county can be brought under ultlvatlon.