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Bulletin No. 46 - Earthen Dams, Samuel Fortier
Bulletin No. 46 - Earthen Dams, Samuel Fortier
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According to the last census, 92 1/2 per cent of the Utah farms are irrigated. The advancement of agriculture in this State mainly depends upon the water, the available supply of which, in many of the older settled localities of the State, is already wholly utilized during the irrigation period. The future reclamation of new lands in such localities must, therefore, wait on the development of new sources of supply from storage reservoirs, sub-surface supplies, or from a more economical use of the summer flow of the available streams.
From estimates and measurements made by the hydrographers. of the United …