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The "First" Irrigation Reservoir in the United States: The Newton, Utah, Project BY LEONARD J . ARRINGTON AND T H O M A S C. ANDERSON
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H E LATTER-DAY SAINTS are noted as "the first people to establish irrigation in Western America on an extensive scale." x This was accomplished by systems of dams and canals which diverted mountain streams Leonard Arrington is professor of economics and Thomas Anderson research associate in the water research laboratory at Utah State University, Logan. This article was written under a grant from the Utah State University Research Council. The writers are grateful for the suggestions of Paul T. Sant, chief, Economic Resources Branch, regional office of the Bureau of Reclamation, Salt Lake City; and the late Dr. O. W. Israelsen, emeritus professor of irrigation and drainage engineering, Utah State University. 4 George Thomas, The Development of Institutions Under Irrigation, With Special Reference to Early Utah Conditions (New York, 1920), 13—14.
