(Photo from the Pearl Spencer collection courtesy of Bill Budd)
These pictures show the dredgeboat used to dig the canal.

 The Uinta County Irrigation Company built a canal on Muddy out of Cottonwood beginning about 1911.  Agents from the project were sent to  central and eastern Kansas that summer where the farmers were suffering from a severe drought.  According to Opal Ray, one of those agents told her father, Ira C. Hakes, of the wonderful opportunity he would have on this land project where the wter was plentiful and wheat and oats grew as high as a man's shoulder, even showing pictures to prove his claim.  Opal's family, Frank Shipley and many others decided to invest in this opportunity. They built houses, fenced their land, and planted crops.
 The claims were gradually abandoned when it was learned the canal didn't provide sufficient water for irrigating and most of the homesteaders left.  Some of the houses were moved into town.

The Canal Project article from The Sublette County Journal
 
History of Green River Supply Canal by Jonita Sommers
 

(Photo from the Pearl Spencer collection courtesy of Bill Budd)

(Photo from the Pearl Spencer collection courtesy of Bill Budd)