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Show l Canal Companies Build Mm Big Dam and Wiers hwm BVl&i 'rt' sl"'l,l,l1 6-"',0UII Tor Construe- rc-BflKX """ W'" mill .Mny Dredge H'iflnHlf .Ionian Ithcr. W'WhOSJL Mr. Wi. A. Knight, general mnnng- lP9flra cr for tllu Snlt ''alt0 County Assocl- raJ0Rn ,ltc'1' Cannl eoinpr.nles, started nbout EwH twenty men and n dozen tennis to W-'WUBi work tlilu week on tlio big duni iinil K BBf wlers v.Mfh thy Associated cunipan raiHil luH wl" ''""l' '" "' Jonmn River In EHBH "'" s'u'ow8' it ""-' ,iL'n(i f "u! tin IcmI l1"1' Stilt I-"!10 id the Cast Jordan SKc canals. llSBn '' ''"' 'ILIU' W(,r,iS wl" uu for "10 I'1"'" JOKflRi K)t)c of Impounding the waters of PnflUHef Utah I. like, also to measure the water iWHRx received liy these caunls and to dls- l&BmrI trllnite the luiliuice to the canals tak- fc'SHlf lK water at a point further down the iflUsl river. The works' also consist of a t'Hw wlur, so that the entire How of the rBlBf river may he measured. &(HK A similar wlor and dinn Is being 3BBI coustriicteil at a jiolut two miles fur. BK ther down the river, at the head of the r.HE South Jordan and Halt Lake City oJH The iiiii'u iliun will bo 100 feet long tfHfil mid ID reel high. The iloor wlll bo -'Hf " r feet In width at the b ttom with kHR a 1" feet wagon road acrcss the top Ktt "f Hie dam. It will he built or solid 3Bb concrete. ti.llin sacks of ceiuoiit and jlBB 1000 yards of gravel will ho used in 3HHfff Its construction. JBJUr Large Since gates havo been pro- W vlded for In the bottom of the dam, Hfljfit which will enable the water to bo Kff drawn oft the lake In caso of high SJBf water much lower than ever before. H Iffnf A now featuro of these gates is that B (Air ""'y "ri! r ""'" nil"al pattern and H V.Y' very easy to operate. After tho de- B?Bf vice Is In place, each canal will be H fB$ rntul In a Hume and nu Irametcr be BrfBill Installed. This devleu may bu coin- BfiB J pared to a turbine. It Is placed In IfjDJjjj tho llumo mid by tho natural flow BuQfirfi,' ()f l,,u Wllt(r '8 operated so as to BwE meaRiiro tho water coutlnuously In MftPf cubic foot per second. An automatic pSsQil motor registers tho amount of water KuWe each canal receives. EftBfi Soon us tho teums Havo dono n llt- HHl tlo more excavating, 2000 bags of Iffil uand will bu dumped into tho river RfjS$' ,0 ,nll'(0 " mini diverting the present JHB How into tho two canals. When tho KXSH dam proper has been constructed, RJRjf thou tho water will bu allowed to PlNKaS' ,m89 th1,01"5'1 l'io sluco gates while kwH lno w,(rA nru "cli'K built. Tho total flPt t08' ot ""' Improvement will bo np- 9HI proximately $2r.000. PRuT While the ollklnla of the canal com- IBi)! panics have not given out tho reason ISPJll for making no bIH of the sluco gatcH HUE seven feet lower thnm tho present fWrfij dam, it Is learned from nu unolUclnl tuBB source that somu day the companies affil Intend dredging the llwr so as to jKgJH draw the lake's level oft bovmi feet MUM lower than It Is at present and malv fjffjM. IK of It a great mammoth reservoir l3ngf If this were done tho pumps nl the ftifiwK '"'"'I of Jordan River could bu dls- ffijB peuscd with, tho two lower canals IKH would get their supply by gravity, 9H necessitating the pumping only of tho KB watur for the two higher canals, and H thus making of tho laku a great res- MB orvolr, forever shutting off tho vex- MB titloua law suits of tho Utah county JBK farmors, mid cutting off one-half the j-jjB' oxpenso of operating tho pumps. ffijlK' The lnke's lovel nt high water mark MB' this season was fifteen Inches above IflBk compromiso point. On August 20th Hjn it had dropped to compromise point, WflP mid on this ilato pumping was com- Sniff menace!. When tho pumps were start. HB ed Jordan River was drawing 515 sec- jflH ond feet by gravity ami tho starting M of tho pumps Increased tills to 700 H second foet. Tho pumps were stopped H for the season September 27, at which K tltno tho lake's level had receded to B 14 Inches below compromise point. H making n total of 2W Inches of water B ; drawn off the lako during tho season B by gravity, pumping mid evaporation. !Tlioso records for high water, both at tho opening and closing of the Irrigation Ir-rigation season, have not been tx- cecded since 11'07. Jordan River Ib H(1 now flowing by gravity 313 second 9 i tuol of water. |