Acres irrigated and duty on water in Uintah County-Continued. Amount of water required to irrigate an acre. Sandy soil. Clayey or alkaline. Lost by scarcity of water in 1888-'89. 22, 750 25, 500 28, 436 11, 000 11, 000 44, 700 Ou.ft. Ou ft. Ou. ft. Ou.ft. Ou ft. Ou.ft. Ou ft. Cu ft. Cu ft. Ou.ft. Acs Acs Acs 22, 750 25, 500 28, 436 11, 000 11, 000 44, 700 255, 000 50, 000 11, 000 11, 000 300 300 100 18 55 20 11 ដើមម 3220 taug; Small grain. Powell & Kabell, south. REPORT ON UTAH COUNTY. The county committee find the average depth of snow in the mountains in the winter 4 feet. The number of cubic feet of water necessary to produce 1 acre of crops, 40,000. Field land should be watered every fifteen days and orchards once a week. All the water is owned by priority of appropriation and is not of record. During the winter and spring months there is water goes to waste that could be stored in reservoirs on the east side of the valley, sufficient to water all the land on the east side. Artesian water could be had for all the land on the west side of the valley. The land is owned, however, in 5, 10, and 20 acre lots by people who are unable to build reservoirs or drive experimental wells. THE URGENT NEED OF RESERVOIRS AND STORAGE. 117 Table showing acres of land cultivated, acres that could be cultivated with increase of water, and acres of crops lost this year for want of water. IRRIGATION AT SPRINGVILLE, UTAH COUNTY. A series of mass-meetings held in Springville on the 12th, 27th, and 31st of May, 1889, also one on the 17th of June, consisting of citizens of what is known as Mapleton Ward, which embaces an area of about 9 square miles, and is the southern and eastern portion of Springville corporate limits, resulted in the appointment of John Luckett chairman of a committee to represent to the Senate Committee on Irrigation in the Territory the necessity of irrigation to the aforesaid portion of Springville city, Mapleton Ward. The object of this communication is to show through said committee the result of the labors of a previous committee appointed by said series of mass-meetings to ascertain if the waters of Strawberry Creek, in Strawberry Valley, and lying in the Indian reservation, could be brought into Springville through Spanish Fork cañon for irrigating purposes. The last-named committee, or committee of investigation, in Strawberry reported as follows to the mass-meeting held June 17, 1889: That the water of Strawberry can be taken into Spanish Fork River by constructing a ditch 20 miles in length, with a tunnel through the dividing summit 600 feet long. The amount of water thus obtained will exceed the water running in Hobble Creek, or five or six good irrigating streams. Nearly the whole of the said southern and eastern portion of Springville is now without water in consequence of the decrease of Hobble Creek, the older water claims taking precedence, and leaving Mapleton people with their grain, fruit, and shade trees already perished. Our hopes are that through Government means something may be done for our relief in the near future. By order of the mass-meeting. JOHN LUCKETT, Chairman. REPORT ON PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH COUNTY, IRRIGATION WORKS. Joseph W. Ash, secretary of the North Union Irrigation Canal, reports: Names of officers: A. B. Walker, president; Robert Thorne, T. C. Banks, William Kirk, William M. Frampton, A. G. Johnson, and James Backhouse, trustées, all of Pleasant Grove City. The canal was first used in connection with the Provo Bench Canal and Irrigation Company's canal in 1868, and flows north from Provo River, at the mouth of Provo Cañon. It irrigates about 1,000 acres; number of acres that could be irrigated, about 2,000. Time of irrigation from May 1 to October 1, Water used about eight hours to the acre every fourteen days. The right of water is first-class. Length of canal, 5 miles; situated on Provo Bench from mouth of Provo Cañon to Pleasant Grove City. About one-half of the acreage irrigated is devoted to lucerne, and nearly one-half is lost through drought this season. REPORT ON WEBER COUNTY. The total number of acres situated under the canals and ditches of this county approximates 117,600 acres, 100,000 acres in Salt Lake Valley and 17,600 acres in Ogden Valley. Of the above about 25 per cent. may be said to be fully irrigated. The following is a list of the principal streams in the county, with the approximate volume of water in each, in cubic feet per second, as measured by me from the 3d to the 9th of July, 1889. Each stream was measured above the points where irrigating canals are taken out: The total volume of water indicated above is increased 20 per cent. from springs and artesian wells. List of the canals and ditches in Weber county. STREAMS AND THEIR SERVICE IN WEBER COUNTY. 119 A number of available sites for reservoirs may be found in the hills around Ogden Valley to the south and east of Huntsville. Also at the head of Wheeler's Creek in Ogden Cañon, there exists a most admirable site, which could be made to contain at least 300,000 cubic yards of water. The mean elevation of Salt Lake Valley in Weber County, is approximately 4,315 feet; that of Ogden Valley approximates 5,000 feet above sea level. The average depth of snow in the mountains during the winter, is 2 feet. WASHINGTON JENKINS, County Surveyor. Water rights from running streams in Weber County, acres irrigated, the sources. |