Salt Lake Herald | 1905-09-17 | Page 1 | Shoshone Contracts Let

SHOSHONE CONTRACTS LET LEir I Four Million Dollars Appropriated I For This Project I Special to The Herald I i Washington Sept pt 16 The secretary j of Qt tbt l r awarded te t n derga delgaI Carbon ClarKson of ot Chicago o th I Contract on t for tor building the dam da of or the tit I Irrigation UOn project at nt ana a to Charles Spear of or I Mont the contract for fer the lorbett belt tunnel on en the same MIM project at ata ata a oat rost of or Thes Thue were the tow low 10 i st bids The Shoshone project con eon contemplates j templates the diversion of a portion of o l the waters water of the Shoshone Sho hone river for forthe forthe the reclamation of acres of pub I n f land on the north side Kide of the river I in Wyoming miUs east I of Qt the Yellowstone National park Just Juat I below the junction of the north and south forks fork the Shoshone river flows for tor three and miles in a can canon you on OH the t mile Ille of ot which is through solid granite with almost almo t perpendicular p walls Malls several hundred feet In height An Dam DamIt It is proposed e l to construct an im un poundage dam at the head had of this can cannon canon canyon yon non on with bottom width of feet teet top width of ot iSO feet and an IlU ele Ie I 1 above aboe the river bed of 40 feet teet j The reservoir r thus created wIlt will have a storage capacity of acre feet i On Un account of steep canyon canon walls it is necessary in order to provide for spill 1 wa wy to allow excessive lve floods to pass V 18 the dam to construct a It tunnel from fromI I the th of the proposed proponed ed k around the dam through the solid I granite of ot the mountain to discharge di e e I into the canyon canon several hundred tut f et below the dam This tunnel will have havea a capacity of cubic feet foot per par see sec second ond sufficient to carry the largest I floods Hoods of ot the stream Engineering Features i This project is of ot special lal be because because j cause C u e of or its unusual engineering tea fee features I i tures The storage dam built eighty eight feet teet below the river bed to bed rook and with a total of or W feet t will be the highest in the world I I The Hood spillway tunnel through solid granite will have a capacity of OO II cubic c feet per second and there will willbe willbe m be bt two outlet tunnels each Lach three and Dud I miles nilles long one taking its sup supply supply ply ly directly from the reservoir for lOt a high line canal cevering acres of ot high land In the upper valley and the theother theother theother other diverting the water from the river sixteen miles mlle below bolow the dam for fora a u low line hue canal to supply the remain I inS Ing portion The canals will decrease deerea in size with the distance from froni the tun tunnels tunnels nels nets as distributing ditches are taken out The secretary se of oC the interior has haa hasset hasset set aside for or this project I