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Show The Mammoth Reservoir; a Great Irrigation Project The mamoth Reservoir located in Gooseberry valley East of Fairview City is a gigantic Irrigation project. When completed, it will furnish water for thousands of acres of land that are i laying idle at the present time. Each year the company adds ten feet to the dam. This year fifty men and thirty teams have bepn employed on the reservoir and they have raised the dam to the fifty-foot fifty-foot level. ' John C. Wheelon, Engineer of the Price River Irrigation Company who is in charge of the construction construct-ion work says that the reservoir wil empound 10,000 acre feet of water at present. It will be necessary to use 10,000 cubic yards of material to finish the project. When completed complet-ed the dam will be high enough to empound 30,000 acre feet of water which will furnish enough water to irrigate 30,000 acres c-f land. The dam is built of earth while the discharge tunnel is made of concrete. The tunnel itself is five hundred feet long. The water tower is made of concrete, with walls two feet thick heavily rain forced with steel and lined with wood. It has 22 valves which are so arranged as to insure the strength of the tower. The water is carried sixty-three miles before it is used for irrigation purposes. It is turned into Gooseberry Goose-berry Creek which runs into Price river. About five m'les North of Price the water is taken out into canals and carried about 35 miles. At present they are irrigating about eight thousand acres of land which could not be cultivated before the canal was taken out. There are nearly twenty-five thousand thous-and acres that will be brought under cultivation after more water is turned out. The men who are at the 'head of company mostly Salt Lake men. Geo. Austin is president of the company. com-pany. Ira D... Wines is vice president and Thos. R. Cutler, Geo. A. Smith and Thos. Austin are directors. |