IA 1 READY IN f r I State Engineer Reports Work Can Be Finished Before Floods Comei Come i BIG MARYSVILLE PROJECT State Land Board Favorably Impressed After Accurate investigation State En Engineer Caleb Tanner yer ic ic- r r turned yesterday esteriL morning from Hatchtown Hatch Hatch- I r town Garfield county where the he stale 2 is constructing a 1 large e reservoir roser oll under i. i F tho land grant act AIr Mr Ir Tanner brings F a favorable report with re regard Hl to th thI the development of or the work worle I le of or A earth Aboul 60 cubic yards ls have been placed In th the tho 1111 sa saId d Mr i Tanner Approximately third one of jl I the time stone work has lies been completed and 20 O per cent of or the work 1 A- A Is in place and let set Wo 0 expect to finIsh fin fin- fn- fn Ish the time rock and concrete work worl D 1 by 1 the middle of January but have n no z hopes of or completing tho the t this winter inter The Tho ground cx s shard so hard that a u horse four team team could no not t. t plow plo it Jt 1 L Thero remain about cubic I i yards of this work to be done ilone 1010 In the tho spring before the dam daim wilt will wil be com coin The he period of high water does docs not begin until tIme the last Jast of May Ia am and tho timo frost will wil bo out of or tho ground round to lo horin on the earth IH fill 01 I b by tho the latter later part or of March so inn tile the they will havo o ha In JI the time neighborhood of c 60 days das to put in the tho earthwork t without without with with- out endangering the structure by reason reason rea rca tb son of ot tho time spring sprin Hoods floods I- I t There are arc 15 masons on the rocK rocKwork work four concrete men and 50 O teams working on the time earth nil 1111 11 and hauling I rock for the dam roee am n Reservoir I 1 j i Mr lr Tanner ma made e a statement con con- COI- COI corning the lan large e reservoir to be Ic constructed con con- COI- COI at Pluto Piute count county which will wil he the second largest structure tune ture of Its Is kind In the tho state II I 11 S S. I and his party part of engineers expect to lo finish the time surcy sure suri sur- sur of time the reservoir site 10 miles i VO e cy mies south of lars lar's by time the close loso Of OC the week The project originated In Inthe Inthe the tIme following manner The Thc le Otto Creek Reservoir compa n ny ny composed of or all aJ canal companies In II time the Richfield vale valley Interested themselves themselves them them- selves In the site 10 miles mies south of Marysville Marys Ie That company compan In conjunction conjunction tion with the tIme owners of ot tho the land to tobe tobe tobe ton be irrigated after one years year's cars consideration consid oration oraton concluded that It would bo he advisable advisable ad ad- ad- ad isble to interest the state In taking hold of the proposition The board boarn of or land commissioners detailed 11 Mr Klein Klein- schmidt to lo make male a survey of tho the site silo and to determine what time the storage store Capacity capacity Ca- Ca ca ca- of or tho tha tho proposed reservoir would be be also what tho the completed project would cost This part of ot the work has just been completed and It seems from tIme tho report of aC Mr Ir that it I will wi be practical to store nero aero feet of or water sufficient to irrigate approximately 2000 acres The Time cost COStor or of storage however has not yet yel b been n worked out The rime state looks favorably ra at present 1108 pres pres- omit ent upon the broad features of ot the tl proposition The Tho cost of ot the dam and canal will win bo be determined by engineers u us as rapidly as practicable in hopes of at being able to submit the preliminary thu the project to- to to-tb to stat l d o r doi H r CONt font Will 11 lie he Large c. c The project is a n Jar largo o one and Ind will wl cover cove much ground The canal to be he built in conjunction with wih the reservoir reser oh will I be 40 miles mies long and amid will wi cost Into the time hundreds of ot thousands of or dollars i Tho The people are arc willing to pa pay 25 an acre aCIe for water and as estimated at present the of o water will wI not exceed that The land Jand i Is partly party owned by private vate Individuals Therefore before befort the state can cami cn safely take up the tIme work york specific contracts with wih the time owners must a be arran arranged ed So that If IC a land Jand owner defaults in his annual payments to the F state his land reverts to tho the state and 13 tony may be sold to an any other citizen