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ous surroundings, it is too cold for any except the hardier productions. 

 The recent discovery of some mines in the mountains around it, how- 

 ever, may bring it into notice. 



Kamas Valley, which is similar to Parley's Park, is about ten miles 

 long and from two to four miles wide, and can also be irrigated. Both 

 are well grassed and afford good grazing fields, but, on account of the 

 difficulty in reaching them, and their small size, will not be of much 

 value in an agricultural point of view. 



I know nothing in regard to Pound Prairie. 



RUSH VALLEY. 



This valley appears to be a small isolated basin, having a distinct 

 water system of its own; Push Lake, which lies in the north part, being 

 the reservoir. It is about forty or fifty miles in length from north to 

 south, and averages fifteen miles in width, a large portion of which can 

 be irrigated, and which I have estimated at three hundred square miles. 

 Clover Creek, which flows into Push Lake, is a stream of considerable 

 size, and affords sufficient water, not only to irrigate a large extent of 

 land, but also power to drive machinery. The lake is about eight miles 

 long and some three or four miles wide. Some mines recently discov- 

 ered at the north end of this valley will, if they prove productive, fur- 

 nish a market for the farm products. 



Stockton, at the north end of the lake, is a village of considerable 

 size. The farms in this locality are irrigated from a stream that runs 

 from the mountains near by and empties into the lake. 



SEVIER RIVER BASIN. 



This comprises the country drained by the Sevier River and its trib- 

 utaries. This river, rising in the southwest corner of the Territory, runs a 

 little east of north between two ranges of the Wahsatch Mountains for 

 one hundred and fifty or one hundred and sixty miles, where it breaks 

 through the western ridge and runs southwest for forty or fifty miles 

 more, and empties into Sevier Lake. Its principal tributaries are the 

 San Pete River and Meadow Creek. The former, rising a little south of 

 Mount Xebo, runs southwest through the San Pete Valley and joins the 

 Sevier River near the crossing of the 112th meridian and 39th parallel. 

 The latter commences in the divide south of Rush Valley, and traverses 

 the plains west of the mountains, uniting at the bend. Very little ap- 

 pears to be known in regard to Sevier Lake, at least I have been unable 

 to ascertain anything of importance respecting it or the lower portion of 

 the river. The very irregular form of this basin and uncertainty in 

 regard to its western rim make it impossible for me to give an esti- 

 mate of its area that will amount to anything more than a mere guess. 



The San Pete Valley, which is watered by the San Pete River and 

 numerous small tributaries, counting from Fountain Green to Gunnison, 

 is forty -four miles long and averages fully five miles in width. At least 

 two hundred square miles, or nearly the entire surface area of this beauti- 

 ful and fertile valley, can be irrigated. The returns of the Agricultural 

 and Manufacturing Society for 1866-'67 give nearly twenty thousand 

 acres as the number then under irrigation ; the past three years have 

 increased this fully twenty-five per cent., so that we may safely estimate 

 the number now irrigated at twenty-five thousand. 



This valley, as a wheat-growing section, stands next to Cache, its soil 

 being peculiarly adapted to the production of this cereal. It is also one 

 of the best potato regions in the Territory. 



