+---------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | | Areas, in square miles. | | +-----------+-------------+--------------+------------+ | Districts. | Whole | Under | To be | Total | | | district. | cultivation | reclaimed in | cultivable.| | | | in 1877. | the future. | | +---------------+-----------+-------------+--------------+------------+ | Bear River | 3,620 | 89.3 | 462.7 | 552.0 | | Weber River | 2,450 | 115.2 | 137.8 | 253.0 | | Jordan River | 4,010 | 192.2 | 280.8 | 473.0 | | +-----------+-------------+--------------+------------+ | Total | 10,080 | 396.7 | 881.3 | 1,278.0 | | +-----------+-------------+--------------+------------+ | Ratios | 1,000 | .039 | .088 | .127 | +---------------+-----------+-------------+--------------+------------+ This region includes an eighth part of the land area of the Territory, and more than one-half the agricultural land. It is the richest section of Utah. Nearly one-third of its available land is already in use. The cost of the canals by which its cultivated lands have been furnished with water has been about $2,000,000. To complete its system of irrigation will probably cost $5,000,000 more. IRRIGATION BY SMALL STREAMS. Through the remainder of the drainage basin of Great Salt Lake there are no large bodies of farming land. At wide intervals are small tracts, dependent on springs and small creeks, and the available land is in nearly every case greatly in excess of the available water. A few exceptional spots are cultivated without irrigation, but so far as they have been discovered they are so situated as to be moistened from beneath. No crops have been raised on dry bench lands. The principal facts are gathered in the following table: