. Valleys of the Great Salt Lake .. . e 500,000 acres. Theyorganized and stocked an enterprise called the Bear RiverCanal Company, bonded it for $2,000,000, surveyed the routeand through contractors started the work last summer. BearLake is a beautiful sheet of water in the Wasatch Mountainsforty-five miles north of Ogden. The water in this lake,which is six by thirty miles in extent, is of great depth andpureness. It is supplied by mountain streams and springs andpours its surplus water into Bear River. This river winds its tor-tuous course through the canon to and across Salt Lake Valley,and
. Valleys of the Great Salt Lake .. . e 500,000 acres. Theyorganized and stocked an enterprise called the Bear RiverCanal Company, bonded it for $2,000,000, surveyed the routeand through contractors started the work last summer. BearLake is a beautiful sheet of water in the Wasatch Mountainsforty-five miles north of Ogden. The water in this lake,which is six by thirty miles in extent, is of great depth andpureness. It is supplied by mountain streams and springs andpours its surplus water into Bear River. This river winds its tor-tuous course through the canon to and across Salt Lake Valley,and finally pours its waters into the great Dead Sea of waters of the river are of great volume and plan contemplates two canals, one on each side of theriver. The west branch debouches from the Bear River Cafionand is to irrigate the lands lying at the northern end of thevalley and about the northern arms of the Great Salt east branch winds along the high bench at the western 46 THE CITY OF BUTTES OF THE CROSS. base of the Wasatch range, and is to supply the land as farsouth as Ogden, where, if there be no use for the surplus waterbrought to this point, it will be suffered to run into the OgdenRiver. The work is well under way with a fine prospect ofbeing finished before next winter. It is probable that nosimilar work of its magnitude and physical difficulty has everbeen undertaken in the United States. In order to shortendistance it has been necessary to tunnel hills, blast down solidrocks and excavate millions of tons of earth on mountain stupendous enterprise has challenged attention allover the country. Its successful completion will be a triumphfor American brain and financial pluck. It will reclaim landthat now produces only sage brush and scant wild grasses, andwhich will be worth from $2,000,000 to $25,000,000. It isestimated that the reclaimed land will support a farming popu-lation of more than 100,000 souls and
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