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THE IBBIQATION AGE. 



one as the company to develop this land has been 

 organized several years, the originators of the project 

 having been Jesse Knight, now of Salt Lake City; ex- 

 Governor Chatterton of Wyoming and other Wyoming 

 pioneers, who acquired the irrigation rights and organ- 

 ized the company some years ago, but the work of de- 

 veloping the system and completing it was not actually 

 begun until Farson, Son & Co. took over the bond issue. 

 The construction work and active management of the 

 enterprise is being superintended by W. G. De Celle, 

 vice-president and general manager of the land com- 

 pany. 



The original plans for the system contemplate the 

 irrigation of about 150,000 acres of land, lying along 



No. 3. A rock cut on main canal above reservoir No. 1, Eden Valley 

 Project. 



the Big and Little Sandy rivers. When the system is 

 completed there will be this much or more land under 

 ditch. There is now completed about forty miles of main 

 canal which has been built by the company and is ready 

 for the delivery of water. The company this year com- 

 pleted reservoir No. 1, which is situated on the tract 

 and is shown on the accompanying map. Water is now 

 being taken from this reservoir for use on land which 

 has been brought in this year. This reservoir contains 

 about 1,400 acres and is filled direct from the Big 



No. 4. View on main canal between diversion dam and reservoir No. 1, 

 Eden Valley Project. 



Sandy river by a canal leading from the diversion dam, 

 as shown in the accompanying illustration. The plans 

 provide for about thirty feet average depth of water in 

 this reservoir. 



The original plans for the system provide for a 

 large reservoir some forty miles north of the irrigated 



land at the foot of the Wind Eiver mountains, at a 

 place called Leckie Basin. This basin is a great natural 

 reservoir site on the Big Sandy river. By a comparatively 

 small expense this can be turned into a reservoir which 

 will hold 100,000 acre feet of water. This is to be used 

 as storage water and will be turned into the bed of the 

 Big Sandy, brought on down to the diversion dam and 

 there diverted into the main canals of the system. At 

 such times the Big Sandy is often low. The Leckie 

 reservoir is also to be fed with water from the Little 

 Sandy river by diverting this stream into the basin 



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through a canal about one and a half miles long and 

 by other streams tributary to the Big Sandy river. 



The first part of the system built was the canal 

 leading from the diversion dam on the Big Sandy, a 

 point about fifteen miles north of the irrigated tract, 



