| Show PROPOSED RESERVOIR SITES often citizen get off at the union de pot at ogden and express their great admiration mi ration for the trees and shrubbery growing in our beautiful city and vicinity after passing through the great deserts of wyoming from the cast or idaho on the north or nevada in alie west the great fruit orchards and green farms of weber county appear like a giant oasis to the traveller and naturally the first question propounded by the is Is any more land of this kind to be obtained in this country and tho answer is hundreds of thousands of acrea of land can be had nt the price of per acre from the united states government the next question naturally is I 1 there plenty of water t that question ii usually answered yes and no hii lions of callona of water running to waste nine months in the year yet there 9 a in the three summer month en the im satin season H on 1 lie etra ncr i informed that there is pleni of water but it must be impounded it must be held back in the fall winter and spring to be used during the hot summer months kot one out of a thousand stops to consider the question of impounding water of building reservoirs they take it for gi anted that those bilings are practically impossible or if pos bible that the means required will be so great as to e beyond the ordinary nuna consideration altah possesses thousands of natural reservoir batea that are surrounded by mountains with only a small pap through which usually passes a creek liver or streams of water from springs or lakes which outlets often arc not over 10 feet wide and would require a small amount of money to be closed and thereby baue the impounding of clift water aad creating of a natural lake or of natural re senoir sites in utah low an abundance 0 ater nine moi till in the year and aimed hy no 0 e in making a dobe inspection of t 0 ditc of alio little strawberry vall y a picture 0 which in the lo 10 A er left hand corner of page will be seen that the mountains or hills ither rise all around and that bately in front chere the benall river asseg the opening will be seen which awaits to be closed a dam reservoir or lake all tliatha necessary is to close in feet of and a monster lake covering thousand of acres vill i be created wafer will be stored to supply farms of a thousand families I 1 the other reservoir bites on this page are equally na but on account itis location and the large field the proposed reservoir sites cover it was impossible to all sides at the proposed reservoir sites and the basin of ehg it has been said that butah presents laore of these natural lake eisei than any state in the union and each of these natural reservoirs arc supplied bup plied with an abundance of water now that the government has decided to aid in these reservoirs it i but fair to bay that utah will receive its proportion of assistance and that in the near future the very bet of these natural reservoir rites will be selected and made into lakes in order that the water thus stored may present new openings for citizens seeking a new location where irrigation makes crops a certainty each and every year it money to begin a farm in utah as well as in other arid regions because the canals and ditches must be built to take the water to each and every acre but after once completed the canals and ditches are used each and every year and a certainty of the crops and an increased iced per acre 13 ample reward lor the increased expenditure in getting a start butali presents a splendid field for farmers who have means to start with the dry landof the west must not be confounded with the prairie land of iowa and illinois where all that is necessary is to plow and sow the seed and if the skies give an abundance of rain there arc good crops in tha arid regions the crops are certain if irrigation M certain the yield is twice as great as the yield in the pracie states by reason of the fact that water is sup i plied when needed and just enough is given suffering neither from drought nor drowning I 1 the reservoir sites printed upon thia I 1 papa are simply to remind the reader that there are grand openings ope ninga in utah i for the forming of reservoirs and the impounding of water for thoe alio 1 have the means to undertake this work and elioe vw can undertake it will be abundantly rewarded because water in the arid region is money he who has water for the summer can make an oasis where now and greasewood gr exist r only a few froli ogdan city the davis and weber counties canal company have built a anni up a creek at the head of river eliere the stream was through a canyon kia than feet wide the cost of the dam was something like and yet the water company would not take for its reservoir today five times the value of the original cost of the dam hundreds of other dama as easy of construction a this ono built by the and weber canal company near ogden lio un utilized awaiting financial |
