| Show Will Ill VI PREVENT PR EVEN I fUTURE flOODS Breakwater Built by Southern Pacific and Power Compa Companies Companies Companies nies on Weber River In preparation for the high water sea Lea sean s son Leaon on n and with a view few of eliminating the danger caused by the overflowing of the tire river at the head bead of the Fremont mont canal the Southern Pacific railroad to together together gether gather with the Utah Light and Railway company compan have built a breakwater at the of ot the canal opposite the Amal Amalgamated mal sugar factory This work was completed during the past week and cost costin in the neighborhood of The construction work was done while there was ten tf n feet of or water In the river It consists of oC two rows of piling boarded so as to form a sort of a box and filled tilled in with more than fifty carloads of gravel It Is IB seven even hundred feet long and Is IB ex expected to eliminate among other ether things a possibility of the Southern Pacific road roadbed roadbed roadbed bed being washed away at that point During the past year or two consider considerable able trouble has been experienced in tn con controlling controlling trolling the waters at this place during the high water ater periods Last spring every effort had to be put forth to prevent the water from overflowing and forming a anew anew anew new channel down through the Slaterville settlement Had the break occurred the loss to land owners in that territory would have havo aggregated many thousand dollars to say nothing of the Io loss lOlls s that would have b bet been n sustained by the rail railroad railroad railroad road people Much luch concern was felt at atthe atthe the time by b the power people who own I the canal and the railroad company and Immediate steps were taken to prepare lIre pare the necessary sary plans for the work which I has juat juet been completed |
