WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO COLLECTION
Photo WCHS-03928
Leo Snow and officers of the St. George and Santa Clara Irrigation Company at Shem Dam to attempt to flush silt from the reservoir.
The photo was taken in 1941.
The camera is looking southwest.
This photo is from the Luther M. Winsor Papers, COLL MSS 98, Photograph 41-8,
Special Collections and Archives, MerrillCazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
It is included here with permission as part of the Washington County Historical Society's (WCHS) task
from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to provide a Shem Dam interpretive website.
See Page 86 of the Historic American Engineering Record, Shem Dam (Winsor Dam), HAER No. UT-96
prepared by Scott O'Mack, William Self Associates, Inc., for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS), March 2016, 96 Pages [Large file, so this may take a while to load]