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Show WILL MAKE REPAIRS ON THE PIUTE DAM Under instructions given him yesterday by tiie state land board. W. D. Beers, i state engineer, will proceed at once to make needed repairs to the Piute reservoir reser-voir dam. The engineer was Instructed to open the dam and let the water out and remove the rock that has slid down from the dam into the reservoir and to repair the ripiapping that has rotted and broken. The work is to be done as rapidly as possible pos-sible so that the headgates may be closed and there may be as little waste of water as rossible. Some work also is to be done on the diversion di-version tunnel, where a leak has developed de-veloped from the gates. The leakage water wa-ter is to be fl timed through the tunnel while the repair work is being done. |