Show the big dam on the rio virgin considerable interest is being taken baur utah dixie oyer jupi Jy Pi early completion of the tiie rock ilam now bein constructed ion iri t pods bior A per manent study ot the irn gation of the yards around washington and st george in the pasi twenty five years permanent dama on the the eraas nature of be bed of the stream sand has always rendered abortive all latt being advantage oia big bend in the riter the to entirely fill up the curve with a aock ra r i the entire stream against the rocky point above mentioned an enormous enor mons being cut through the solid rock to accommodate the stream oabe the dam is teaty above ed of the river and being through the n is belond all 1 td convey the water from the dam onto the level has been feces sary a g sized tunnel through the mountain followed by an open canal cut for quite a long dis tance theolia tock of the this rock hewn ditch is nine feet wi will convey water of a normal feet the work of construction is unde rothe allemant able mant BO lund and bf the concern will notye canal I 1 irrigation L of much of which will doubtless be devot ed to the raising atthe grade bf cotlon th has already become the to be theira enterprise which will in this case doubtless tropical reg ionone 0 the richest and most desirable sections of t |