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entirely of soft red shale with some beds of sandstone. Beyond 
milepost 681 this sandstone has been extensively quarried for build- 
ing stone in Salt Lake City, but the growing use of cement has led 
to the abandonment of the quarries. 
Spanish Fork is here joined by Diamond Fork, a stream coming 
from the northeast (right), which, though Baie small, has been 
utilized by the United States Reclamation Service to bring water 
from Strawberry River, a tributary of Green River, through a divid- 
ing ridge, to irrigate some barren land in Salt ako Valley.”? . The 
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Fiegurn 59.—Map of peri Valley reelamation project. = dash line shows the 
oundary of the Green River drainage basi 
water obtained by damming Strawberry River is carried through 
the ridge by a long tunnel and discharged into one of the head 
branches of Daamond Fork. From this point it flows by gravity 
into Spanish Fork and is diverted lower down, where it is most 
needed. The traveler may see the diversion canal near the lower 
end of the canyon. 
®The Strawberry Valley diversion River (du- shayne’), a stream that en- 
ers G 
(see fig. 59) is one of the large proj- 
ects that the United States Reclama- 
tion Service has carried to a successful 
oacenaiy By this project water that 
is n eeded where it falls is taken 
vee tise another drainage basin and 
given to the thirsty land. As shown on 
the map (fig. 59) Strawberry River is 
one of the head branches of Duchesne 
reen River from the west. 
Strawberry River heads in rather open 
country near the Wasat 
which has an tation elevation of 
about 8,000 feet a level. At 
that altitude the Sabeieel of any but 
the most hardy grains and vegetables 
is impossible, so that the water is of 
little value where it falls, but over the 
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