| Show IN Ob 1 t fN 1 t I I fA FAlLS l lI I Attempt to Destroy Growing Growing Grow Grow- i ing Crops Seen in Mining i 0 i of Ste Stephens Stephens' hens hens' Darn Dam I i Special 11 Dispatch OGDEN Juno Tho 28 Tho failure of or tt 1 i I ch charge uSe of or dynamite to explode when I placed at nt the base of or No Io 2 dart dam In Inthe Inthe I 4 the Birch creek district Friday probably probably J ably saved the lives of oC many reSIdents residents residents resi reSI- dents of or tho the lower loner Birch creek valley I and hundreds of or thousands of or dollars I I In buildings s nn and growing crops crops- One charge di did explode exploder but only j tore a no rag rag-c ragged hole in the dam am without without with- with I out releasing the tho flood Had the second second sec- sec j II ond and ch charge fired tho the waters o of No o. o I 2 darn dam would t have been heen precipitated j I i upon tho dams below and a wall of of I water ten feet deep and 1000 feet j wide would have swept down own upon the city of or Ogden OSden PLOT AGAINST CROPS SEEN Motive for tor tho the attempted outrage I has not been discovered but is generally generally gen gen- clany believed to have o been a radical radical rad rad- ical attempt to destroy destro crops Neither has any clue been unearthed more than the deduction that the job 1 seemed to have been handled by eXt ex experts experts eX- eX t on explosives considering the i preparation of ot the tho unexploded charge A defective tu fuse or a po possible scattering scattering scat cat of or the charge b by the first ex exI explosion ex- ex I I Is thought ht to have been re responsible responsible re- re for Cor tho the failure of or tho second charge to explode The three bl big reservoirs in the Birch creek creele district are known as tho the Stephens dams on tho land of Sol C Stephens and were first constructed construct d In 1868 1858 being tho the first irrigation reservoirs reservoirs reser reser- In Utah T T. Okono a Japanese laborer employed employed employed em em- on the thc Stephens Stephen farm Carm discovered discovered ered cred the tho big hole in the wall of dam damNo No 2 2 Z and Sheriff H. H C. C Peterson and Deputy Deput T T. H H. Blackburn repaired to the scene at once DYNAMITE IN DAM The officers found round that two fifty fifty- foot toot len lengths of oC fuse Cuse had been laid one of them having burned completely to the charge that caused the explosion and tho the other being only onh partially consumed consumed consumed con con- while the charge charS of or four un unexploded unexploded unexploded un- un exploded sticks of or dynamite was found imbedded in tho the embankment o of the j I dam Tho The force Corco of the one explosion j I had torn a large hole in the dam but the flow of ot water was stopped by a a. I pile of earth that had fallen Into tho the embrasure re No 2 reservoir contains fIve acres I of or water five feet teel deep and is just justI I above reservoir No 1 I containing seven seyen acres of or water five fhe feet deep deel Had these gone out the water would have rushed down the valley valle taking out houses In the immediate vicinity and the dams darns of ot an orchard company and the Ogden Golf and Country Countr club and tho the wave of or destruction would have I reached the center of Ogden |
