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Show Utah Irrigation Featured In "Reclamation Era" SALT LAKL CITY Utahns will be interested in an article entitled, "Utah, Cradle of American Amer-ican Irrigation," which appears in the September issue of "The Reclamation Era," official publication pub-lication of the Bureau of Reclamation, Recla-mation, according to Regional Director E O. Larson. The article tells the story of Newton Dam which 75 years ago created the first irrigation storage stor-age reservoir in Utah, and possibly possi-bly in the United States. How the original Newton Dam was built starting in 1871 with ox and horse-drawn scrapers in ' contrast to the modern methods used by the Bureau of Reclamation Reclama-tion ,in completing a modern counterpart of the structure in 1946 is related. Featured are pioneers of Newton, Utah, Joseph J. Larson, former water master; William J. Barker and Marcus J. Benson, who participated in construction of the original dam. THE MODERN Newton Dam was completed by the Bureau this summer. Authorized for construction under the Case Wheeler Act of September 11, 1941, the new structure is three times the size of its prototype. The reservoir capacity is 53,000 acre-feet. Approximately 2,225 acres of land northwest of Logan, Utah, are benefited by the stabilized irrigation which the storage water makes possible. Part of the construction is a distribution canal 4,000 feet long and of 25 second-feet capacity. capac-ity. Other features are the East Canal, two miles long, serving lands on the east side of Clark-ston Clark-ston Creek, and the highline canal, six miles long, serving lands west of Clarkston Creek. The September "Reclamation Era" also carries an article on the Colorado River describing man's early struggles with the Colorado and telling how the stream was brought under control con-trol by the . construction of Boulder Dam. Publication of the "Era" was resumed last May after a four year hiatus caused by he war. |