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Show SURVEYING MAMMOTH RESERVOIR SITE AT MILBURN EX HE L 1 TO DOUBLE ACREAGE IN SANPETE CO. FARMERS HOPEFUL OF GREAT FUTURE FOR SANPETE AND JUAB A. H. Christensen of the Utah Construction Company and Guy Sterling, surveyor, of Salt Lake City are making a survey of a reservoir site near Milburn this week. It is the opinion of the men that there is ample storage capacity in the Milburn valley to empound enough water to supply the needs of Sanpete valley and most of Juab county. These two men have been over the ground a number of times this season and Thursday Thurs-day while on the proposed contour con-tour line of the big reservoir, they took great pleasure in showing W. D. .Candland of this city and McArthur of the Pyramid, the extent of the great storage capacity so easily easi-ly obtained in the basin. It' was a real surprise to the visitors visit-ors to look through the instru- j ments, although they knew that a reservoir site was pos-' sible at that place. It is much ' greater than had been expected. expect-ed. When the survey is complet-1 ed by the men it will be known! just what storage capacity it has. Mr. Christensen madeJ the statement that it would be just as great a surprise when they began to working on the drainage districts. Applications filed Tuesday with R. E. Caldwell, state engineer en-gineer contemplate util izing waters from La wry creer, Hunt! ington, Little Clear and Tucker Tuck-er creeks for irrigating morei than 100,000 acres of land in Sanpete and Juab valleys. The! appications filed by Mr. A. H. Chrtensen of Salt Lake seek to j divert 69,000 acre feet of water for irrigating lands, part of I which are embraced in an ap- plication made with the state engineer several months ago by the Halloran Judge Ijoan & Trust Company in what is j known as the Gillette filing. The plan contemplated by Christensen is in three distinct i units. The first would divert! a quantity of water from the Lawry creek, a branch of Cot-' tonwood creek, at a point in j section 31 of township 16 soulli I range 6 east. A second di- version would be made fromj the Left Fork of the Hunting-! ton creek at a point in section! 31 of township 15 south, range 6 east. A third diversion un-j der the first unit would boj made, from the Huntington j creek proper at a point in sec tion 35 of township 13 south, i fnge 6 oust. The three di-j versions it is estimated would j aggregate 40,000 acre feet of J water. j Under the first unit the fol-1 lowing plan is given in (he ap- plication: "Beginning with j die diversion from Lawry creek the canaj will run north-j ei'ly across the drainage area west of and tributary to Lawryl creek, intercepting from the) branches thereof as the canal '(proceeds. Passing from the Lawry creek drainage area the canal will continue northerly I and run west of and across the I westerly drainage area of the j. left fork of Huntington creek, intercepting and diverting front the branches thereof as i the canal proceeds. This canal (will pass from the Huntington creek to the Gooseberry valley drainage area by way of Flat creek pass and leaving the latter lat-ter point will run in a northerly north-erly direction on the west of Gooseberry valley to the drainage drain-age area on the south side of Fish Creek and thence westerly wester-ly to a point of low elevation on the divide between Fisht creek and Thistle creek, into! which the canal will discharge and flow westerly in the channel chan-nel of the later creek to a point about three miles easterly of Iridianola. The water thus (discharged into Thistle creek Iwill be diverted and carried )south across the divide at Hill-itop Hill-itop to a proposed reservoir )and center of the dam site of which bears .in a southwester-dy southwester-dy direction) from section 14, I township 13 south, range 4 east. In this reservoir the ) water will be stored and used ias required on the lands lying j along the easterly side of the I San Pitch valley. "The canal bjT which Hunt- inton creek is to be diverted will run in a southerly direction direct-ion across the drainage area (west of Huntington creek, in-(tercepting in-(tercepting and diverting from jthe'i branches thereof as the icanal proceeds. At the Flat )creek pass between Hunting -ton creek and Gooseberry yal-ley yal-ley this canal will be discharg-jed discharg-jed into the previously mention-led mention-led canal and be carried thereby there-by to Thistle creek, diverted itherefrom, stored and used in "connection with the water to )be diverted from Lawry creek land the left" fork of the Huntington Hunt-ington creek." Under this application it is proposed to irrigate 67,840 acres of land probably supplementing present pres-ent water rights held by tht land owners on lands it is planned plan-ned to bring under the project, i The second unit of the plan iwould divert 10,000 acre feet ifrom Tucker Creek in Utah county, using this as a sup-plimentary sup-plimentary supply in irrigat ling 20,160 acres of land near .Fountain Green. The application appli-cation explains: "Beginning with the diversion from Tuck er creek the canal will run west' erly across the drainage area smith of and tributary to that part of Spanish Fork creek east of Thistle, intercepting and diverting those branches of Spanish Fork creek crossed between Tucker Creek and Thistle Creek. From the Spanish Fork drainage area this canal will run to the drainage drain-age area on the easterly side of Thistle creek and discharge into the channel of a brand of Thistle Creek known as Kilikninick or Little Clear creek and flowing southwesterly southwester-ly in the channel of the latter creek the water will be divert ed therefrom at a point about three miles easterly of Indian-ola Indian-ola and carried thence southerly south-erly and across the divide at VHilltop" as provided in the previous application. The ',water would be stored in the Isame reservoir to be constructed construct-ed in the Sanpete county near (Milburn. 1 The third' unit of the proposed pro-posed irrigation project contemplates con-templates diverting 19,000 )acre feet of water from the Kil likinick or Little Clear creek in Sanpete county for irrigat ling 19,000 acres near Fayette. (The application proposes to develop the following plan: ."Beginning with the diversion from Kiliknic.k creek the canal iwill run south across the drain lage area of Thistle creek inter-jcepting inter-jcepting and diverting the flow !.of said drainage area as the canal proceeds. At Hilltop ! ,about 10 miles by canal from the point of diversion the can-, al will run across the divide Ibetween the Thistle creek and jthe San Pitch river drainage ' (areas and will be discharged j )into the reservoir mentioned in Ithe two other applications. ) Mr. (JJmstensen paut the istate engineer $1357.50 filing-fees filing-fees for the above applications. The county assessment book ishows that there is something like 100,000 acres of improved farm land in Sanpete county ;and also about 50,000 acres of junimproved land. This shows that there is plenty of room for (improvement. There is also (land which is not yet on the assessment book of the county (which can be brought under icultivation if there was water (enough for it. With a double amount of 'land brought under cultivation jit would mean much to this valley. Farmers are opto .mistic about the future possibilities possi-bilities of the great irrigation (project being surveyed by the men now at work. It will be the greatest thing we could have brought to the farmers at the time. |
