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with John L. Sevy, who had seen them and asked for a ride back to Cedar City that night. He and Mr. Sevy traveled up the canyon from Newcastle past Castle Ranch and on to Irontown and then past Woolsey's Ranch to Cedar City. It took them most of the night to get home." The Castle Ranch was east of the present site of Newcastle. They got their names from a mountain nearby which resembled a castle. As plans moved on, the New Castle Reclamation Company started promoting a reservoir at Grass Valley. This valley is located about 10 miles south of Pinto, Utah and three miles north of Pine Valley. The elevation is 7,000 feet and the Pine Valley Mountains to the east are near 10,000 feet. "In the year 1911, the Newcastle Reclamation Company began construction of the Grass Valley Creek Dam, which is referred to in the rourt decrees as the Newcastle Irrigation Co. Dam. The structure is situated on the Grass Valley Creek below the confluence with Water Canyon Creek and about two miles upstream from the confluence with Pine Valley Creek. The dam crest is 3,200 feet long and the dam has a maximum height of 95 feet. The storage capacity of the reservoir is about 26,650 acre feet. A drain canal 6,500 feet long with a maximum depth of 40 feet, was constructed upstream through the central portion of the reservoir-basin and thence, a tunnel, bearing N. 23' 48' \V: 4,135 feet in length was constructed through the mountain to Pinto Creek.'"' This drain canal reversed the natural drainage of the Grass Valley Basin from the south to the north, and consequently, was one of the first projects to take water from the Colorado drainage and put it into the Great Basin area. T o supply water to the dam site and on to the tunnel entrance, a feeder canal, about 3y2 miles long, was constructed up to the north and middle forks of the Pine Valley Creek. This Pine Valley "feeder" contour canal was built in 1914 with Japanese hand labor. It had an approximate capacity of 100 second feet of water and was constructed at an expense of about 65 thousand dollars.'' The overall plan was to transfer water from the Santa Clara River drainage, where there is very little nsable flat land, to the Grass Valley Reservoir for storage, and then through the tunnel to the Pinto Creek drainage. They planned to generatc power by means of hydro-electric turbines, after which the water would continue to a location near the valley east of Newcastle fherdhonse). Plans included building another reservoir there to help control the spring run-off. The Grass Valley Reservoir was cornpletcd and filled and water flowed over the spillway on the wetter years in 191!l. 1g20 and 1'128: however, problems began to build up on every side. There were threz major causes of the "downfall" of the Newcastle Reclamation Project. 155

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
Type	Image; Still image
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Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
Contributing Institution	Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
Rights Management	Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved.
CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 155
Description	with John L. Sevy, who had seen them and asked for a ride back to Cedar City that night. He and Mr. Sevy traveled up the canyon from Newcastle past Castle Ranch and on to Irontown and then past Woolsey's Ranch to Cedar City. It took them most of the night to get home." The Castle Ranch was east of the present site of Newcastle. They got their names from a mountain nearby which resembled a castle. As plans moved on, the New Castle Reclamation Company started promoting a reservoir at Grass Valley. This valley is located about 10 miles south of Pinto, Utah and three miles north of Pine Valley. The elevation is 7,000 feet and the Pine Valley Mountains to the east are near 10,000 feet. "In the year 1911, the Newcastle Reclamation Company began construction of the Grass Valley Creek Dam, which is referred to in the rourt decrees as the Newcastle Irrigation Co. Dam. The structure is situated on the Grass Valley Creek below the confluence with Water Canyon Creek and about two miles upstream from the confluence with Pine Valley Creek. The dam crest is 3,200 feet long and the dam has a maximum height of 95 feet. The storage capacity of the reservoir is about 26,650 acre feet. A drain canal 6,500 feet long with a maximum depth of 40 feet, was constructed upstream through the central portion of the reservoir-basin and thence, a tunnel, bearing N. 23' 48' \V: 4,135 feet in length was constructed through the mountain to Pinto Creek."' This drain canal reversed the natural drainage of the Grass Valley Basin from the south to the north, and consequently, was one of the first projects to take water from the Colorado drainage and put it into the Great Basin area. T o supply water to the dam site and on to the tunnel entrance, a feeder canal, about 3y2 miles long, was constructed up to the north and middle forks of the Pine Valley Creek. This Pine Valley "feeder" contour canal was built in 1914 with Japanese hand labor. It had an approximate capacity of 100 second feet of water and was constructed at an expense of about 65 thousand dollars.' The overall plan was to transfer water from the Santa Clara River drainage, where there is very little nsable flat land, to the Grass Valley Reservoir for storage, and then through the tunnel to the Pinto Creek drainage. They planned to generatc power by means of hydro-electric turbines, after which the water would continue to a location near the valley east of Newcastle fherdhonse). Plans included building another reservoir there to help control the spring run-off. The Grass Valley Reservoir was cornpletcd and filled and water flowed over the spillway on the wetter years in 191!l. 1g20 and 1'128: however, problems began to build up on every side. There were threz major causes of the "downfall" of the Newcastle Reclamation Project. 155
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1234.pdf

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