Utah : faits pour prouver que le plus jeune des membres est progressif et prospère /émis par la Commission de l'Utah pour le Lewis and Clark Exposition du centenaire qui aura lieu à Portland du 1er juin au 15 octobre 1905 . Avec l'État l'ex-ception du Colorado. Il va récupérer 200 000 acres de terres très fertiles. Lac de l'ours, situé sur la frontière entre l'Utah et de l'Idaho, flux par un naturaloutlet dans Bear River. Cette prise sera dammedand un canal de loin au-dessus de la rivière Bear Jakewill détourner les eaux de crue du ruisseau en thereservoir ainsi créé. Le projet coûtera 5,-000,000. Il comprend

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Utah: facts to prove that the youngest of the states is progressive and prosperous /issued by the Utah Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition held in Portland June 1st to October 15th, 1905 . State with the ex-ception of the Colorado. It will reclaim 200, 000acres of highly fertile land. Bear lake, situated onthe line between Utah and Idaho, flows by a naturaloutlet into Bear river. This outlet will be dammedand a canal from far up Bear river above the Jakewill divert the flood waters of the stream into thereservoir thus created. The project will cost $5, -000, 000. It includes the main dam, three diversiondams and 150 miles of canals. Three states are in-terested, but the land to be reclaimed lies mainly inUtah. It consists of areas along Bear river inMarsh, Western Cache and Malad valleys. Theland is open to settlers and is provided with thebest railroad facilities. Improved land along Bearriver is now selling for $50 an acre. The third project is the Utah Lake enterprise.Thirty streams rush down from the Wasatch moun-tains and spread over the 125 square miles of surfaceconstituting Utah lake. Three-fourths of all thiswater is lost by evaporation and the remainder, flow-Si. Wheat Fields in Weber County. When the Frost is on the Pumpkin Berry Pickers near Ogden. ing into the Jordan river, waters Jordan valley. TheJordan outlet is n feet higher than the bottom ofthe lake and the plan is to make an n-foot cut sothat the lake can be entirely drained in the summerand the water saved from evaporation. A dam willalso be constructed to impound the spring water andenough water will be saved in this way to irrigate50, 000 acres in the northern part of Utah county andin the southern part of Salt Lake county. The Weber River project is designed to bringunder cultivation 100, 000 acres. The Weber river issecond in size only to the Bear. Its normal flow willbe diverted by a short canal into Provo river andwill be used to reclaim the broad stretches of fer-tile land

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