In leaving Cache Valley the river tumbles through a short, narrow cañon, and then enters the plain that borders the lake. The limestone walls of the cañon offer a secure foundation for the head works to a system of canals to supply the plain. Here, again, a large outlay is necessary, but the benefits will be more than commensurate. Not only will the entire alluvial plain of the Bear be served, but the valley of the Malade, as far as Oregon Springs, and the valley which extends from Little Mountain to Connor’s Spring. After deducting from these areas the land along the margin of the lake that is too saline to afford hope of reclamation, there remains a tract of 214 square miles. One-tenth of this is now in use, being in part watered by Box Elder Creek and other small creeks, and in part cultivated without irrigation. In the following table are summed the agricultural resources of that portion of the Bear River drainage basin which lies in Utah: +------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | | Square miles-- | | Tracts. +-------------+------------+ | | Cultivated | Cultivable.| | | in 1877. | | +------------------------------------+-------------+------------+ |Base of Uinta Mountains | 1.6 | 2.5 | |Yellow Creek and Duck Creek | 0.0 | 2.0 | |Randolph Valley and Saleratus Creek | 9.6 | 69.0 | |Shores of Bear Lake | 5.0 | 9.0 | |Cache Valley | 50.0 | 250.0 | |Delta Plain, Malade Valley, | | | | and Connor’s Spring Valley | 22.0 | 218.0 | |Box Elder Valley (Mantua) | 1.1 | 1.5 | | |-------------+------------| | Total | 89.3 | 552.0 | +------------------------------------+-------------+------------+ The entire area of the Bear River District is about 3,620 square miles, 2¹⁄₂ per cent. being now under cultivation, and over 15 per cent. susceptible of cultivation. * * * * *