Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Number 3, 1971

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Tunnel looking toward portal 1,200 feet away. Utah State Historical Society, gift of Mrs. Lewis M. Hammond and Engineers Society of Milwaukee.

An Investment in Progress: Utah's First Federal Reclamation Project, The Strawberry Valley Project BY THOMAS G. ALEXANDER

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of the 100th meridian, water rather than land has controlled development. As Arizona Delegate Marcus Aurelius Smith observed in the debates over the appropriation of money for the Powell Irrigation Survey in 1890, anyone in the West might take an almost unTHE AREA WEST


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