Show CANAL WORK FINISHED cost COO more than a quarter of a million to cement nine miles or of davis weber co cos s canal yesterday morning tho gates of the davis weber counties canal were raised the whole structure having boon been completed after it 11 united labor since september lost last nine and it a half nilles miles of heavy con orele crote work twenty two feet at the bottom and thirty four feet on top six feet deop thoro there being it 11 slope of forty five degrees which will hold cubic second feet until tile the power house sito site is reached thyn it is reduced to nin nineteen oteen foot feet in tile the bottom and thirty two foot feet wide and five feet deep holding r cubic second feet lt it required carloads of cement inan tand and nearly 1900 1000 carloads of gravel el ravel T the bee excavating X a vathia cost about 50 and tons of cable and iron for informing ro weak points the canal in in all has cost well nigh on oil to pao tho the canyon work being grand protected protect eI by a heavy iron fence set in concrete many points of tile the mountain blown off into the river makes it look quite artistic when lined and plastered up to a neat wall gasoline boats can run from tile the bamberger line to tho the canyon krause both eastern people are ard locating a summer resort near the devils cramp so saltair will not bo be in it these gentlemen i have an eye to business it has been estimated that there has been over five thousand different men mea on the works as laborers since the construction has been in progress t tho the V largest number enrolled at once being about six hundred mostly foreigners ners the little japs exceeding them all in work and cle cleanliness arili japan can be proud of her nation this work has been visited by one knoof of our government officials taking notes and photographs e of the carial canal he states t that hat it was the finest irrigation ditch lie ho had bad seen in the united states the accurate curves and tangents were grand in order to 0 give the water its free momentum A number of skilled workmen from the east wore in charge of steam mixers eight in nu number aber of which many friends were made and when the gong was sounded and the tents were lowered a at the close of the work many a kind goodbye good bye and hearty shako shake of the hand could bo be heard and seen and tile the march out of the canyon was like the german army observer |