Show conserving UTAH WATER big reservoir sites in tha south places where nature offers to tha residents of that part of tha state natural sites for the forming of immense lakes richfield july 4 that the proper appropriation of water and its storage is the great question ot southern utah is known to all the farseeing faree eing the arid lands of utah are many miles in extent the water that runs down the rivers daring the fall winter and spring and goes to waste must be saved the question of reservoirs is foremost with all of the people on the sevier river the best way of building them the best way to use the water the rights of conducting it through the river channels the means of forming and maintaining big storage companies are questions that must require careful study ol 01 the farmer and the law maex of the next half century so far in ahe history of water storage this part of arid utah has never been thoroughly looked over by a competent engineer hut state engineer W alard young lieutenant R W young W II 11 have just returned from euca a trip when seen by the herald representative the state engineer did not care to say anything until his report was made to proper an dhority tho rity but mr told of he trip and his ideas we may in the main consider nearly as those of mr yount 1 diute piute county is located in grass valley being its largest lown some four weeks since the irrigation company purchased john A pastures and hay field jo bated in Plat aau and have laid out a reservoir which they will soon begin burldine buil dine the land is level that any size of a dam will bank the water over several adjacent it could be mada large enough to digate all of the surplus land in upper grass valley if the is heavy enough to provide water for filing it SITE on the headwaters of the Fremon fc river the fremont irrigation company which supplies water for Freni ont loa lyman and thurber all in wayne county has been preparing for water storage the first place they decided on was fish lake this lovely sheet of water is not supplied by many f coders and those few are email inconsequence there ie but water enough to raise ther level of the lake two and a half feet this has been daae for ten years past and the company finds itself needing other and investigation proves that close by there are better placed than fish lake joanson valley just a mile and a half further down ha sevenmile seven mile creek juaning through it tha stream iu one of the largest brancheau bran chea of the fremont and is a torreas in the early spring to make the valley a profitable place of storage a dam fromi twenty to fifty feet high can be built t a moderate coat end four square miles would be the surface of the resulting ehert of water six or seven miles further on there ia another valley through which the water of U M creek sluggishly being so level a email would hold an kimmence amount of the much needed in feet the U M valley surpasses any other site on the fremont river A dam twenty feet high would form a body of water five miles lone and from one to two miles wide and the water for filling it is anere the surrounding hills would allow fifty foot dam if the proves sufficient it each year IN besides the ono taken by at the upper end of grass valley thero are two other places that would provat valuable storage paces the first one is at rosebud where a one could be made at small cost tue other ip the site upon which sevier county has taken an option the otter creek eite this covers several manchee ran chee which are to be bought out during the comlos month thia place seemed to stand the critical test for mr see continued on page 7 conserving UTAH WATER continued from race 11 1 mallor seemed more encouraged than ever over it i JOHNS VALLEY the irrigation companies com pinies of monroe have been doing work at johns valley which is located twenty miles above kingston on the east fork to make this reservoir substantial a wall of masonry must be put below where the dam has been begun A shortage of waler supply is to be feared there yet it ia an excellent place for reservoir ing BAST there are two other tor storing water on east fork blakee bottoms bome twenty miles above johns valley below john steelea Ste elee ranch and at the place are a number of mounds that are quite well known in that part alie drawback of this site is the want 01 water the people of tropic are putting in a dam at allua fly and expect tu have diore to use on fruit lands in tle near future BEST tire OP ALL A goul place to put in a reservoir dam is a mile and a half below camerons ranch on the mammoth creek but the eite of all on the upper sevier is Pang nitch lake itself is scarcely a limit to what can be done here the present dam shoud be made stronger and higher and when that is done it can be made to cover several hundred acres of abe now pas ura land adjacent aJ jacent to the lake there is another pace to store water two miles above in the blue spring valley but the lake will hold all anter that runs from there and the place is net needed another reservoir could be built at horse valley but the water supply would be limited and the same work put on the lake would be of greater profit parties from iron county are building a reservoir on little creek but mr did rot abit it in kane county the people have abo reservoir fever and have close to the divide martin cutler has built one bishop graham mcdonald has ac otheral upper kanab and daniel beeg miller has one and is building another down on abe just below he town ot johnann Joh naon a storage dam is being constructed it will cost heavy for the water to be saved but thare is such an abundance f land that it will be a profitable layout anyway three miles below eld and 12 miles above panguitch on the sevier river the party found a monster place for water storage it will require a CO foot dam but when put in the reservoir will surpass panguitch lake SITE but by far the best site in all the southern part of the state is abe one now occupied below marysvale Marys vale it is close to sevier county eo much water ia ne ide 1 and it will always be supplied too but the land to be used is highly valued then there are several judgments against the company that owns U and as the R G W railroad builds on there will be further litigation if it has not been now settled but for tite alone the one below marys vale is the best KANAH scheme during 5 6 abe creek mining alone by kanab washed out a great gully that was halt a hundred feet deeland de kanab was left high and dry brush and rock dams tor water diversion proved of no permanent avail and the fruit trees and grape vines began to dip in 1891 a new dam and spill were made and kanab has bad no trouble of that sort since but it enough water neither has it any sites with water to fill them but on the settler side of abe mountain there is a body of water known as duck lake it has an outlet that runs towards assay creek but sinks on abe way the kanab people could take duck lake over the divide by digging a twelve mile ditch anil that no doubt will be done soon the explorers report an excellent trip the best of weather was had until friday when wind and rain combined to make the ride unpleasant below pan duitch lake there are many big educated trout in the streams too laree to bite at books they seem to know the violation it would be to ratch them with hand and they are becoming eo gentle that they fear no one but an indian beauties were a eore temptation to the parly but they managed to obey abe law salt lake herald |