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Show supt. Mcpherson resigns from D. L & W. CO. Albert M. McPherson has tendered his resignation as superintendent for the Delta Land & Water Company. With his resignation also has been filed the resignations of Engineer T. W. Parry and Miss Mima Stringer. String-er. This action was taken Dec. 31. Mr. McPherson has been with the company ever since it commenced business in this county. At first he was employed as project manager on the Milford project. Later he was transferred to Delta in the same capacity. The past fifteen months or more he has been general superintendent super-intendent in charge of both the Delta and the Milford projects. Mr. Parry was employed by Supt. McPherson as engineer in charge of the water distribution. He was selected se-lected for this important work after a large number of applicants had been examined, and his service has been very efficient and his uniform courtesy has made many friends. - Miss Stringer has been stenographer stenog-rapher in charge of the details of the correspondence and office work at Delta and later here at Milford. She has been very efficient and businesslike business-like and an indefatigable worker. The three constitute the active executive exec-utive force of the Milford office. It is particularly regretable that the Delta Land & Water Company is In lose the services of Mr. McPherson and bis office associates at this time. To Mr. McPherson more than to any other person is due the credit for the great work done this fall and winter for the conservation o the available water supply for the project. proj-ect. It was only alter much labor in the collection of engineering data proving where the principal losses in the company's water system occurred, oc-curred, together with numerous convincing con-vincing tests to substantiate these findings, that the appropriations necessary nec-essary to do the construction work for the new bed-rock canal, the repair re-pair work at the Rocky Ford dam and the rebuilding of the Beaver Bottoms dam was secured. It was difficult to secure the co-oporation of the owners necessary to undertake the new work. In each case the work has proven successful. The expense of the new intake or bed-rock canal nuar Mincrsville will amount to approximately ap-proximately $20,000, The grouting of the dam to stop the leaks and thus save a considerable volume of water which was running to waste will cost about $25,000. The leaks ut the tunnel outlet under the "concrete "con-crete spillway have been entirely stopped and the work of closing the other leaks is still in progress with every reason to believe that the undertaking un-dertaking will prove a complete success. suc-cess. The rebuilding of the old dam in the Beaver Bottoms has just been completed at a cost approximately of $5,000, In this reservoir site are about "50 acres of land, and will impound im-pound 3000 acre feet of water. The settlers as well as the Delta Land & Water Company owe much to Superintendent McPherson for the works for water conservation just completed. Had this work been done earlier, and it is no fault of his that the action was not taken earlier, much water would have been saved for use on the project and the products! prod-ucts! of every cultivated farm on the project would have been greatly in- reaped.. Mr. McPherson has not definitely decided as to his future activities. He has several propositions under consideration but will take a well earned rest after five years of continuous con-tinuous grind before taking up another an-other proposition. Hut a man so well equipped for efficiently managing large enterprises. endowed with splendid physique and good health will not be satisfied or permitted to long remain idle during these stirring stir-ring times. His wide experience, bis well known ability as an engineer en-gineer and his success in handling large affairs and many men would make blm a valuable acquisition, to the Government forces in any deportment deport-ment he would consent to serve, and any corporation or private enterprise enter-prise that might enlist, his interest would be fortunate indeed. |
