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Show WISDOM OF BUILDING SPILLWAY VINDICATED MACKA June12. Two thousand cubic feet of water per second, or nearly twice aa much aa la carried off by the valves, the only outlet for tha water before be-fore the spillway waa built, ia passing over the dam In the spillway built by the slate. The spillway waa obtained at the earnest request of the Mac say Miner, backed by the Mackay and Lost river cltlaens. A Mil which Senator Macbeth Introduced and had paesed In the laat aeaalon of tha legislature provided for thla improvement. The cJflsene of Mackay and Center county's representatives in the legislature legisla-ture waged a hard fight for the construction construc-tion of thla spillway over tha gravel dam. nil war r l laal nf nlavln rvillt lr-a. attr. Engineers and others atated that there waa no need for a spillway, that to build It at the states expense would be a waste of money, as there would never be a drop of water run over one If It waa built. Some were going- to drink all tha water t hat wen t ova r a nd o t hera rid I -culed the propoaltion aa preposteroua. but the fight for the aplllway waa won and U waa built, and now, with the high water Just beginning to come down, there la about 2000 cubic feet passing over the cribbing and dropping; down to the old channel of Lost river. Undoubtedly a disaster has been averted, tha valves originally provided for aurplus water having hav-ing proven wholly Inadequate. |