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Show NEW CEMENT DAM IN JORDAN RIVER Also Coninle MciiNiirliiK WU-rs for Hie CiiiiiiIn. Work will commence next "week on some most Important Improvements In Jordan Narrows by tho Associated Canal companies, who uso Jordan River Riv-er water for Irrigation. A Jl'.OOO cottage cot-tage will bo erected for tho use or" a man who will bo kept there In the future to measure to the several canal companies tholr proportion or water Juo under recent court decisions. UxteiiBlvo concrcto works will bo put In tho rhor, where tho canals iro taken out A concrete dam sov-aral sov-aral reel low or than tho present dam will bo put In so that R It Is desired to lower thu rlvor at any time in case of high water It may ho done and Hum avoid expensive lawsuits with Otah County .fanners. Also Borne day he companies may decide to lower inil Btralghten the river channel and thus draw tho water from Utah Lako to the dam by means of gravity, and change tho location of tho pumps from the bend of tho river to tho Narrows Resides the dam which will ho built hi tho river where the old Rio. Grande grade crosses, cement wiora will also bo constructed In each of tho caunla so Hint the amount of wnter drawn by each can be moro accurately men- ' surjd. The wlors will have what uro iiiown us rudlal gates, the most modern mod-ern devices used In water distribution. Two thousand tags of cement will be used in the work. Tho dam and wiers will bo built under tho direction of Salt Lake I City's Engineer. Mr. Cannon, and J, I Fowson Smith, tho canal commission- I or, with our own Will Knight In I chargo of the work. N. G. Whlpplo I will supervlso tho carpenter work. I |