and the weather reports give an average in excess of 300 sunshiny days out 

 of every year. 



With all of these advantages, Utah's valleys are being rapidly filled with 

 conservative, practical husbandmen, and yet there are within the limits of the 

 state unlimited possibilities for the man who wishes to combine brain, brawn 

 and a little capital for the development of a home. 



T 



Utah County and tne Strawberry Valley Project 



HE Strawberry Valley project, constructed by the U. S. Reclamation 

 Service, will irrigate about 60,000 acres of land in the vicinity of 

 Spanish Fork and Payson, on the southern shore x>f Utah Lake. The 

 districts to be watered are about equally divided between mesa and 

 bottom lands, varying in elevation from 4500 to 4800 feet; most of them 

 are privately owned, the only government land being located northwest of Pay- 

 son, and in the neighborhood of West Mountain. The project's water supply 

 comes from the Strawberry and Spanish Fork Rivers; that from the Straw- 

 berry River will be stored in Strawberry Valley, in a reservoir whose capacity 

 is 280,000 acre-feet. The reservoir, surrounded by high mountains, stands at 

 an elevation of 7,500 feet. A tunnel 1 9,900 feet long, lined with concrete 

 and with a capacity of 600 second feet, conducts the flow through the rim of 

 die great basin into Sixth Water Creek, thence via Diamond Creek and Spanish 

 Fork River to the diversion dam near the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. 

 At that point a power plant has been erected; besides supplying electricity for 

 use in constructing the project, it furnishes light for the towns of Payson, Salem 

 and Spanish Fork, and will be put to further use in pumping irrigation water. 

 Any surplus water from the project may be employed to advantage in the 

 Juab Valley. 



The districts comprehended by the Strawberry Valley project will produce 

 apples, peaches, pears, apricots, cherries, plums, berries, all kinds of vegetable!, 

 bay and grain ; in short, they will compare favorably with the best Utah Valley 

 land already under cultivation. With the completion of the project, privately 

 wned lands offered six or seven years ago at $15.00 per acre have assumed 

 values of $100.00 per acre and upwards. 



The celebrated Utah Valley, one of the most beautiful as well as one 

 tf the most fertile valleys in the West, is about 30 miles long and 1 5 miles 

 Woad ; it is limited on the east by the rugged and imposing Wasatch Mountains, 

 and on the west by the Tintic Range. Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove, 

 Provo, Springville, Spanish Fork, Payson and Santaquin are the chief towns. 

 These fortunate communities, flourishing amidst charming pastoral scenes, are 

 surrounded by fruit and farm lands of marvelous richness. The bench lands 

 are the fruit districts and the bottom lands are given to growing grain, alfalfa, 

 potatoes and sugar beets. When the orchard mesas along the foot of the 

 Wasatch from Lehi to Santaquin, a distance of 60 miles, are wholly devoted 

 to fruit growing, they will constitute one of the most remarkable horticultural 

 regions in the world. 



