Iron County ana the Newcastle Project 



| IKE a lovely woman, the Escalante Valley needs but to be seen to be 

 admired. Even the prospective settler, whose attention is centered on 

 climate, water and soil, will have his instinct for the beautiful aroused 

 by the panorama there unfolded. A bread, gently sloping plain, once 

 the bottom of Lake Bonneville, stretches away to purple mountains; those pleas- 

 ant patches of green on the smooth floor of the valley are fields of grain and * 

 alfalfa. A merely casual inspection will convince the observer of the fertility 

 of the soil. In that region the Newcastle Land Company is making possible 

 the development of prosperous farms. 



The irrigable land, consisting of some 24,000 acres, with an additional 

 6,000 acres of dry-farm land, lies at an elevation of 5,000 feet and has an 

 average slope of I 2 feet per mile, making irrigation and drainage matters of 

 extreme simplicity. The average annual precipitation is 1 6 inches and there 

 is an abundance of subterranean water within easy pumping distance. In the 

 vicinity of Enterprise water is obtained at from 40 to 75 feet, and on the 

 Newcastle tract even nearer the surface. Analyses of well water from Lund, 

 Beryl and Nada, on the Salt Lake Route, show that it will serve admirably 

 for irrigation purposes. The Newcastle Company secures its gravity water 

 by impounding the flow of several canyon streams ; the reservoir is located in 

 the Pine Valley Mountains at an altitude of of 7,000 feet. The dam joins 

 two steep walls of basalt in a narrow gorge ; its construction, as well as that 

 of the headgates, canals and laterals, is of substantial and enduring character. 

 When the proposed alterations are completed the reservoir will store 27,000 

 acre-feet of water. 



VISTA OF NEWCASTLE LANDS. 



