Show Brtidstreela tells about that dam in the Colorado river at Austin Texas and it Is very Interesting As proposed it was to cost a million dollars and was lo bo tho second largest dam in Ito J Unllcd Slates Tho proposition wua to store the waters of the Colorado river In Lake McDonald thirty miles long l seventy feet deep and a mile wide The water was to furnish power to run the street cars and electric lights and for a host of manufacturing enterprises which It was supposed would Bcllle at water Austin to secure Uio cheap power The big artificial lake gave opportunities op-portunities for regattas steamboat excursions ex-cursions and other entertainments but failed lo attract manufactures Then there was dissatisfaction and a question I of the logullly of the bonds and then the l article says I It 13 said that the darn was neglected and when tho rooertl heavy rains came I the Hood Hint swept alone tho Colorado carried away the central section winding a crreat weilpo of the granite structure iwentvflvo led I high live hundred foot wide nnd eight feet thick down the inc I of tho dum sixty feel Into thc rlvor bwl below The roaring waters like a tidal wave nItro fropt ar av the treat powvr I house ilrownlnir eight workmen within KK Walls anti left n path of ruin and UH nlntlotl for many miles behind It Tho IOR tit life Is calculated at over thirty ami the Is I of properly at neverul inll HOM dollars It Is one of the Kieatest I ciliinltlfi I thai t Texas has ever experl r enced anil t nchen anew tho lesson that I nature will not be bribed I |