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Show Irrigation Project Plans Considered; II I Federal Officials Start Investigation I !lfeBCLAMATION sro fx hli h man) thousand easy btronif Irrigated and added to the Already fruitful 0den ngri -'iltur- I district Is a prospect of 17 tab da-relopmenf. da-relopmenf. Carrying throush the In-Tratiiratlon In-Tratiiratlon work upon which iurh irrigation ir-rigation plan muit be based IN llM fflcial of Weber. Ini. Morgaj .ml 0 i 'hr counties, the i'tah Water itdr- ace cotntnlMlon and other stats offJ-rial' offJ-rial' represent! Ive of tti I nited Flitiii reclamation on t' . I Bern 1 - pu b lie orfanlz.it Inn of Lh . ber county farm pllf ii and the t.' den Chamber of commerce. Primarily the development of these lands will be through Morn" I I flood water from th Weber. Hrh-n and Hear rler. according to the plan outlined und now bein mui thoroughly considered. Bulldii gigantic reservoirs will be one of th essentials, construction of canals nti-fcthsi nti-fcthsi liut whm these reservoir are built and the canals constructed th y uill convey life-giving Irrigation M -er to the most fertile sections of in--Cigden district, to land especially adapted for lnn"tvc ngrlcult ur; I i 1 licrl irti K uml efforts. iv.i i - LAJIOl n H Although ogden in Interacted i inet- I IV in the development that will me 'safe rT BBbS a ' " i'rn 1 1 '' in in i ii i' ! i r i i lie sf At0 ' ' K I Mm Weber nwr flood iratera for Irrlcu- H tlon lands In I'tnh arid Toot le roun- """"l lies, even carry Injt of water back Inru I ! Halt Lake county from the Provo rl"- Is sufficient to permit Of such a d.- H version Is n question ih.it frill be soli Hj ed by engineer. It Ik generally rCO- W ocnized that if the Weber, D rla ind . Mortcun county land owners will ut- I Hue the waters lo llnlr fullest ex- tent. I J molfture supplier! In the dralnarc mW The Weber . ounty Irrigation dK- WM trict. formed about two yean .io. MM h.oK been more . i I. -- dormant a n H orcunlzatlon (lining the peel tWclt ml to legal tangle m which the district has been Involved Howsvsi la pi for irrigation work In Weber bounty n I fairs. ThesK plane include use of Of I den river. Weber Hv.-r und Bern river I water for, Irrigation, the latter - i Ing supplied from ,i pumping plan' ft near Corlnne and brought aoro - B I WL RSldsr and Weber counties In tied i 14 .-"hiil. The Wober and Ogden river mr projects involve the building of danw MIKI I Mil I I.I i pn vi s .1 in rtah at tii,- preeerit time there j . are three distinct Irrigation projects j j for which federal aid Will be urged In (he event of the paeeajre of th- Bmlth- p "cN irv recla m itlon bill c hl h pr I J , '"dee for an appropriation of lata I 000, oi ,.ii liunatlon u are I hi i Ii alio proje n W which oalla foi brh - Ing water from M i tat lake throuri, .. a ,tm of canals f around Salt Lake valley to lande i i ) .lacent to r.ranlsvllle .,,i t...,. i- i; Crovo-Webor project, whirl, nclud - u 'tie reclamation of land under tin V ' pJy,?' v,'c,,, i 4qrdan rlvei - and V .he near Itlv. ,:.,y (.rJ(.,.t. , thf water In Itctr Klver hay at th'.- 'I north eln I ' Ore it Sail lake. 'I Inip'tu to ptin for the l'ro-Weber l'ro-Weber prOjacH eaj given rcen when Senstor William EL King lntr - I dueed a hill lb the senate to appro-, prist i- '..(. ()i to begin work on It. I ' This project has for Its aim I putting lulu llii greatest p'--lhl- use the Waters of th- Provb, Weber and Jordan river htih now find th-Ir way loto Grftat Salt lake. It has been( the i1r mi fur rnun enrs of persons, i i ii ludlng i'h H ssfurdoeb of Pro-J R W.nllnie of Snlt link an.l Oc rnor William spr. now i rommlesJoncr Of the general bind of-, elr aeeoclated with the gre.t-j I'.iKili.le agrlculnn i and miiu- ti.il . .!..(. mrnr I Die Cr-l 8tttt; .lley. th put these water to Work, pcrh im developing electrical ! , nergy for Industrial use, hut ult i - mately covering the greatest number' of .lore of land poectble, conslste t a ill, the I" methods of agriculture, I by Irrigation. i n 1 1 i I IRMKD Tin Prbvo and Weber rivers rise near each nthor In Summit and Wasatch Wa-satch Bounties, and on the Knm.is bench .hi r" 1 ulri-ud a phvlcsl nin-j HO' 'Hod lietween th" two rlvern which Viler river KM bC tuined Into the I'rnvo if required. The project Is bneM on the fact that there I n yet no large storage on i liner imii. j.oi .if a ninii uuuu w r ' tors of the tWO treem. find their wAy I down pa.t tbo Irrigated areas, those lm the I'rov.i emptlIOc Into I'lah lak and thoci "f the weber into Oreal S.H lake. Investigation of storage possibilities possibil-ities have been mad by dlevre orK.n.- uHUlona. The United states recutiia! tlon service lt.self touched on the possibilities pos-sibilities of the utilization of these; Hood waters In the early days, und a: :ituilv ..i i hi iniff-e economical use .1 I'tah lake as a icscrvolr was mad. Floycgver, inability to ml various nv t rests, and poccfblll' of legal warfare war-fare over titles and damage. it 1st believed, led the federal officials to turn their attention iu the project of bringing water from tjio Colora.'. river basin and the Strawberry rlerl t,r..uk'h the WJHi,toh nountalnr This! resulted In the construction of the Strawberry Valley project, which Is' now Watering main thousand fl acre of land in Utah vnlley. Kollowlntf th.- iiivectifpttldn of thol reclamation st-rviio, the I'Uih C'dnser- , vuilon companj was orgnnlxed ami pent J.-.n.Min t m ,kli;j engineering i vestlgatlons. These pointed to tliel posalbilltlea of gtorace of flood waters I of boili rlvera. of eiehanac of watvisl from the Weber river to the Proyo river, and of carrying (hat water to' large- tin is ol land west of Utah lakr. : now unlrrigated. and through o: around the Oqnlrrh mountains ino equally drj valley in Tooele county PARK1 K in EfiTIG i lov In the hop,, that public aid mlrhl be lent to llie projei t the ft ih Stor-i Stor-i : a.i-o I ttl'.M. i i.ide up of Halt Lake Morgan. Weber, Utah, Davis. Tooele. Summit and Wasatch counties, was organized Ivach county contributed to the expense of engineering investigation. investi-gation. Two seasons were spent In forth, r Invi tfjgatlon . v k. Parker of II d ii l.eing employed as chief en-Kim-, r Tin ln.M M-aM.n he made a somewhat extended gurvey of the KVho roJwjrvoir project, preparing data on storage capacity of that reservoir. und running lines for a porslble canal thai would take tv t-r from the Wi -ber river, as released from the rev.-i -voir, at a point some hundreds of feet higher than the present Davis and hr canals This would permit th"-Irritation th"-Irritation of much of the hsnch lands of hr turo, countlee. In Mr Parker, report of tht yer , he pninicd c it that the "eher t) 1 water supply In th normal year Is more thin sufficient to supply the lands which could be real hed ee -nomlcnlly under canals from that river and he suggested that additional addition-al flood waters of the Weber tnlKlit be turned Into Hie PTOVp The Kicond i was devoted Mr. Parker to a study ol the Provo n.l ol the project and Uemohstr atexl the poHslhllllv anil ( .linuinl I he of bringing IVatcl from llah lake t" the broad Tooele vallev which h-.w ilepend on a scant artesian supplv. Mr Parker found that there is mote land in Utah and Jordnn river --!-- ihan th river can supply to nd-antaae nd-antaae with water. He suggest. ! high line canals for each side of Salt Lake county, as well as the spreading of water o.-r a wide area of T't.h COUnty. He estimated the cost of till Deer creek reservoir, which appcm d (.. Mm the most feasible, st ill This iv on lit eovei the cost construction of a d-mi 125 feet l.n; vvhl. Ii would glv ip.v lty of 7 -J06 acre feet of w.itr the OCavatlOh of splllwavs. trenches, diversion of water during dohettiictlOn, pbrtipink 'il.il tlo m , , Inp of r.i 1 1 rnn I Irurbl -i f vvagon road At the fame tlnn hi nUgirexted power aeTelopmehl in dropping drop-ping that Water down the river n order to supply pumping system to take water from various canals of t!-. yatem and frimi I'tah like. PLANS l Ht TOO! l l Far the Tooele projeel he BUffffi slid sl-id the poaalbillty of using the1 Weber .flood waiters, turned into the l'rovo, Iti return for water taken from Utah lake, and carried around the point oi the mountain at fJarfleld Into Tootle valley. Tunneling of the Oqulrrii mountains to pi water Into Ilucii valley, in Tooele county, he believed would be too expensive. Wate found ould he taken by gravity Into fed ii valley lii Utah county, but th lack of n outlet to that valley ma b strict regulation of supply essential. To form a rational basis for nn estimate of the lands that may bo Irrigated from this project,, tho tablo 1 1 c 1 w Is given, shovvnig the areas of land that may be ultimately Irrigated. Irrigat-ed. From these total area Is deducted de-ducted estimated areas of waet lands, broken, steep benches, gulllei or oiherwi-e un reclalmable lands. The table follow. Total waste Irrlgahl" area land land uoral acres acres Undar ogden lower Bear river 80.000 24.400 6.610 Under Weber 1 1 v e i .... 181,360 47.1 ir 14.245 i ndor Provo and Jordan rivers. Including In-cluding Cedar Ce-dar valley 330,350 83.1P0 247 160 Total ... 591.710 154.70.1 1,0S I M sl l 'Efi Ml. m I Among tho principal dam glteg in this project is tho Yellow Creek dam and reservoir, situated on Yellow creek, a tributary of tho Boar river. I I I which Joins thai stream Just bolOTt Evanaton The l'Uih-Vyomliig bound -ftrj line parses through tho reservoir, ' the dam being In I'tah and larger part of the reservoir in Wyoming Tin-upper Tin-upper waters of the Bear ilver can eatiily be diverted directly to thlg ie-Orvoir ie-Orvoir There la another reservoir site on the Coyote creek, a tributary .f tho Yellow creek to the north of the one mentioned. The diversion from Bear river might be made to deliver down Chalk reek, hut there would he no BtOMUje possible, A ian:il is feasible and BAS-ll BAS-ll built from Coyote creek that would convey water from both thiit and the Yellow creek reservoir to the head of Bono canyon or a much shorter canal, leaving out the Coyote creek reservoir. ! Another reservoir gits that might be utilized is sltu.ited .n tho left side of the Lust Creek at the site of n ..Id diitu partly constnn ted but abandoned aban-doned many years ago. This site Is verjl favorable, according to Engi- ' r Parker for a specially designed single arch, concrete dam. Such a dnm holding 110 feet depth of water ould impound about 8.000 acre feet -it un estimated cost of $350,000 or n little lexs than $41 an 'icre foot. The Echo dam which would form one of the principal parts of the syi-I syi-I tew Is on the main Weber liver about ; three-quarters of 8 mile above tlv point where Echo canyon Jul. tho I VVobST- The slto In favorable to the construction of an earth fill dam. With a depth of 105 feet of water th-lake th-lake formed would extend up to I Coalvllle: cover 1.8S3 acres and hold I a storage of C2.000 acre feet of wa-i wa-i -t The site Is considered fnvor tblc, 1 1 lie only factor detrimental being rue i coat. The necessity for moving 'he rillroad tracks together with the land thut would be Inundated would bring the total cost up to approximately approxi-mately $2.n00,000. or $42 3:' per acre foot. UIM. CAN Ls I DKD. The Bear Creek dam no) resatvoir tSi a.iothor unu of Ihe gygiem, is located lo-cated at a favorable plat prj the 'i'eber river Just above PSOS .md ' -low whore the Weber receives the heavy flow from Bear crook. The li isln above tho site fur holding In-water In-water U rather wide and rial Tlv lite was surveyed by the Wuter Storage Stor-age association for a depth of 55 fa ii of water. A little additional hslfbl of tho dam would give i greatly ln-i ln-i reased storage. The Ratel and TJcer Creek dam; .lid rastrvQira tin- other two principal princi-pal sites, are located on the i'i o o i wet and together would create a storago capacity ot approximately 12G.000 acre feet. In addition to the construction of the above named rMsrVoIrs then would necessailly hav0 to b - ructod several long canals, which would cost in the neighborhood of t 5, 000,00" These would im hi..u- the Weber Canyon high-line canal, thft Uayls and Weber counties anal and the I'rovo canyon canal. The hiiih line canal at Weber canyon wpttld bae Us main br.in h to the smith lu i over the Sand ridge and continue lOUtb ho that Us final lateral would i-ovor land-, dear to Salt Lake City. Another branch would run north, crossing the Weber river at the muuth of the canyon to Birch ere., k bem b The I 'avis ami Weber counties cansj v .mid cover ippiokiinaieiv 49. o on. acres. The Provo Canyon canal would provide WKter fp luO.UOO acres ot land In the Salt likc vallc. W hat la ItpQWn a 'he Tooela jM.- prpjocl prqvidss for taking the watut from I'tah lake through the Salt lak-1'ta.h lak-1'ta.h ..mial to Magna and then In canal to be constructed from A'agua tear around Tooelo valley to the west of Qrantsvllle and over into Rush valley val-ley The eanol would Irrigate ,ip-proxinatfJ ,ip-proxinatfJ '" t"'" ai re. ,.f wonder fully productive land and could be constructed at a cost estimated t .r.. 000, 000. The. first step In thi-if BCherhe would be tho enlargement of the I'tuh 6c Salt I-uke . annl so that it would have an additional carrying i. capacity of 4 50 second feet of wate.. At Magna a seperate canal would! have to be constructc at considerable cost. The 10 miles lied for would Involve three tunnels, 7.400, 18,800 1 and 5.400 feet long respectively and! about one mile of re-enforced cnn-i crete pipe, much of the remainder of I the canal would be open, being of; cement lined construction. Tl.is-I would bring the water t. tin- vicinity of the Morris station on the Salt L.'k. route. where a pumping plant is planned. As outlined. this plai t would lift about 10 second feet, of water 175 feet, and another 100 tent to about half that height. The re- malning 200 second teet would continue con-tinue on through a grnvity can I spreading out over the fertile valle-' to tho south and westv N'OVKL PLAN t RGBD, Due to Ihe fact It has only been in tho past two years that the B:ar River bay project was consld. r feasible, there has been very llttlo Investigation work done to determine Its possibilities. The project provide--for completing lh" dyke now used by the Southern Pacific railroad .o crossing Bear River bay7 of tho Qreot Salt L ike. The railroad hxs con ftructi d a water tight dyke ucros the bay with the exception of between 500 and 600 feet. The plan Is to el this sap and allow the water of the baj to spill over Into Great Salt Led i until such time as the bay water becomes be-comes fresh enough for Irrigation purposes. The water from th bai would then be pumped to binds In the vicinity of Corlnne and Rrlgh.nn City. A a means of more quickly converting con-verting the bay Inc. a fresh lake . has beer proposed to divert the .,t. I of the Weber river which now run Into fjreal Sail bike Into the bay It lb believed that by doing thb it would i be but i matter of a year or two. unfit h tUr. V. u . v..... i mv vim.) nouiu lie sufficiently fresli for Irrigation. The l.,;y co or., an area of 125,00 acres and irutitlv contain:! in th neighborhood of 1,000.000 acre feel of water, which It la believed could us supplied to approsimalely 1QQ.QO0 1 I acres of land. Tho maximum lift of! the pumping system would be 100 feet. By the construction of thee thr-e project containing in an aspraxi-j mutely ."iHO.iJOO ai res of irrigable land. I tho valuation ot the lands SfQUlO I increased eleven times. This to bas. d I on the present valuation of fin acre for waste land and $100 an ac ' for agricultural land. The unnu l value of farm products that coulj pel raised ..n ihe reclaimed land b n bps' estimated, at llO.OQOiQOO, Survey work undertaken by d L nlted States ro.lamatlon sexvlCS 'ihe purpose of determining the fca. i blit oi the Oreen River project -,n 1 undetlakep ibis year with the re, ill that It was discovered then was n ' enough Lind that could be lrrlg.il .1 to advantage q tui-U.'y the gjpgk ,,; the project. no |