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Show I CANAL WORK STOPPED, nte Weather Prevents Operations for present; Wator Rates to bo Ralsod. icial to Tho Tribune. I RIG HAM CITY. Dec. 4. Work 1ms n stopped on tho Hammond canal for winter on account of the bod weather the past few days. Tho company will oto all Its time during the winter nths to the installation of steel head-es head-es along (Jic twenty or moro miles of canal, to take tho place of the old 3den hcadgatos originally installed. B. McGurrin of Suit lAko. president the Hammond canal, was in Brlgham lv In tho week and while here gave 'the Information that tho directors, of company at their last meeting do-eI do-eI on a raise In tho prico of water, lake effect on April 3, l'JH. After that o tho price will be $75 an acre. Many )rovoincnts will he made on the ditches the canal system during tho next few rs, and tho entire proceeds from tho i of watfir will be used in linprove-nts linprove-nts on the various lltcho3 of the wa-8ystem. wa-8ystem. Mr. .McGurrin expects to nd a fow days of next week in thlo inty, and will meet with the property icrs of Honeyvillo and Deweyville In urd to the needs of water UBers in so towns. |