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Show TilK STRAWBERRY PROJECT (Continued from Page One) feet long, seventy-two f?et maximum maxi-mum height, and containing 110,000 cubic yards of material: Indian creek dike, an earth-filled dam with reinforced rein-forced concrete core wall 1300 feet long, thirty-seven feet high and containing con-taining 10S.000 cubic yards of material: mate-rial: Indian creek and Trail hollow diversion canals, two feeder canals diverting water into Strawberry reservoir, res-ervoir, suitable headworks, buildings, build-ings, etc., all located at an elevation of 7500 feet. Of this distributoin system there has been completed to date the main distribution and power canal, twenty and three-quarters miles long, with a capacity of 250 to 300 cubic second sec-ond feet, over half of which is concrete con-crete lined, and 162 concrete structures; struc-tures; sixty-six miles of lateral and more than 700 concrete structures, such as turnouts, siphons, culverts, drains, measuring devices and the like. During 1915 approximately 10,000 acres of land were Irrigated by the project near Spanish Fork. In 1916 over 27,000 acres were irrigated. In 1917 this area will be increased, by the addition of large areas of government govern-ment and private land in the vicinity of West mountain, in Goshen valley. By the exchange of water land near Colton, Tucker and Thistle are being irrigated. Several pumping units are contemplated for further increasing the irrigated area. By the spring of 1917 there will be stored in Strawberry reservoir about 250,000 acre feet of water. Elect ical power Is furnished at reasonable rea-sonable rates by the government from its hydro-electric power plant, near the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon, to all towns on the project. The towns furnish their own sub-stations and distribution systems. The entire project was settled over sixty years ago. Manager Lytel says: There are excellent roads, the towns have good water supplies sup-plies and modern houses. With the advent of this new source of water supply, arid the results already al-ready achieved the first year through its use, there can be no doubt as to future development and prosperity in this part of Utah county. ' |
