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Show ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT 1 In the Beainnini The founding of Utah is celebrated on the 24th day of July because on that day the main body of the Mormon Pioneers under Brigham Young arrived at their destination, the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. But two days before that an advance company under Orson Pratt " camped on City Creek, near a spot where the City and County Building now stands . . . The camp was organized for work and the ground was broken by William Carter, George W. Brown and Shadrach Roun- dy, who ploughed a number of furrows for the planting of potatoes. A few men were directed to the stream where they dug a ditch and ran the water on to the soil." (" The Founding of Utah," by Levi Edgar Young.) Thus it was. and there and then, that Anglo Saxons first used the waters of the earth for irrigation. 11 By the Spring of 1848 over 5,000 acres had been brought under cultivation and as early as 1850 flourishing farming communities had been established throughout the Valley; on Big Cottonwood Creek and Mill Creek and Emigration and Little Cottonwood, on Parley's Creek and on the Jordan River. =:. "-'•::•'•' i' :\':: J. *"*"' L. Clyde Anderson 1. The City and County Building in Salt Lake City. It stands near the spot where Anglo Saxons first used the waters of the earth for irrigation. It was during this period that there were constructed many of the various canals-" ditches" they were called- from the several mountain |