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Show bo removed. The company will em-T ploy between three and four hundred men on the work and operations will I bo pushed from the start. Actual con- I slructlon will begin about August 20 f and it Is hoped that the Jr.b can bo completed before fiost sets in. In addition to tho improvements to the main canal, the company contemplates contem-plates tho construction of a new dam aDd new beadgates. These expenditures, expendi-tures, together with tho expense vf comentinc the canal at tho rate of $30,no a mile will bring the tutal up to fully $2o0 on.i. CANAL COMPANY TO SPEND MONEY The Davis and Weber Counties Canal company will spend a quarter of a million dollars this fall In ce-mentlng ce-mentlng il3 canul from the headgater. lu 'Weber oanyou to the firat main branches approaching ?th0 Sand Tvidge. This decision was reached yesterday yester-day and operations will be commenced at once. The company has been en-icagort en-icagort In cementing about a half mile of the canal as an experiment. This worW begins about three miles from the headjate and has proven bo satisfactory sat-isfactory that the director hav deter-nJued deter-nJued to extend tho work- nearly the entire length of the main canal, a distance of about seven miles. When furnished with the new concrete con-crete lining tho canal will be alout thIHy-fonr feet wide on lop. twenty, two feet on the bottom, and about six fet In depth. The lining will be about four Incbea In thickness. H Is estimated that nearly 30.000 loads of prravel and 3T.0 car loads of cement will be utilized In making tho improvements. According to the. present pres-ent calculations, about two hundred thousand cubic yards of earth muat |