Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-11-16 | Page 11 | Find Bedrock

FIND BEDROCK. Success of Blq Reservoir Project Is Now Assured. Special to Tho Tribune. i?ArjlSX; Nov- I5- By means of test V?!03 sunk hl of Cobble creek the contractor In charge of the preliminary prelimi-nary work at the South Pork canyon reservoir site today located bedrock at t 1?nUl ot sixteen feet, near the edge or the stream. This gratifying news yns brought to Ogden this afternoon nnd assures tho 3uoceES of the big reservoir project. For a. long time It was feared that yhen the work of stripping the site to bedrock reached the north side of the sreiim it would be found that bedrock Emi not ,)e lo-'aled because of the possl-ntilly possl-ntilly of a deep chitsm existing beneath tne bed of the stream, an there is a. peculiar pe-culiar rock formation at that point. Locating a solid rock foundation for the oig dam only sixteen feet below the surface was naturally hailed with do-light do-light by Contractor J. P. O'Neill and the stockholders of tho company. Work on the dam site was begun more than a month ago, but not until today wns the complete success of the enterprise assured as-sured It is now certain that bedrock can bo located clear acrosE the canyon at a depth not to exceed thirty feet. bile the cost of the preliminary work was iindcrestlm.ated, the ciiv officials behove be-hove that ihe expenditure of several thousand dollars additional Is advisable rather than lose the money alrcadv appropriated ap-propriated and the great advantages to be derived from an unlimited water supply sup-ply during the dry months of summer. Members of the city council, the mavor. the cohimlsslonors-clect. the managers of the Utah Construction company and others oth-ers Interested will make a personal Inspection In-spection of the work Saturday. Since the project is now assured, a meeting will soon bo called of the stockholders to perfect tho organization of tho company.