Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 2, 1969

Page 48

John Wesley Powell, the Irrigation Survey, and the Inauguration

of the Second Phase of Irrigation Development in Utah BY T H O M A S G. ALEXANDER

J L / U R I N G T H E SUMMER

of 1888, the people of Utah experienced what many observers thought was the worst water shortage up to that time. Pioneer irrigation flume at Capitol Reef National Monument, Utah. State Historical Society photograph, Charles Kelly Collection.


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