Show Funds Fundy Received I For Buck Pas Pas- Pasture ture titre Reservoir r I Crew of 60 WP A Workers Worker to Start on Largest Res Res- Reservoir Ees Project in Uintah Comity Two Sh Shifts ts to Rush Work A lake fake one and three quarters three I miles mUes long and three-quarters three of a amile amile mlle mile wide covering acres on Brush Creek Creels mountain is the goal of a crew of or 60 workers and engineers who will begin a double next week on the Buck Pas Pas- Pasture Pas Pasture ture reser reservoir or what In official circles Is known as the Oaks Park project The dam which will back backup backup backup up the water ateI to form a new nevi lakein lake lakein lakeIn in Buck Pasture will rise six fifty fifty feet above the floor of the stream streambed streambed bed and will hold back a maximum I of fifty feet of water According to the specifications which have ha been approved for the project the earth fill till com composing I the main part of the dam wIll stretch across the canyon for feet although the extreme which includes the spillway will measure 1108 1109 feet The maximum width of the earth fill will be feet The entire fill wUl will lie atop a concrete which is set in bedrock and the face of the fill fUl will be lined with rock of the type called rip rap Water from the reservoir will be diverted through a foot tunnel which will run through solid rock on the west side of the dam This will be lined with a six inch layer I of concrete and will feed teed the al- al ready-constructed ready canal which carries car car- carries car carries ries water ater into Ashley creek The spillway is to be constructed construct- construct constructed constructed ed on the west nest side of the dam damand damand damand and will wUl take overflow water over solid rock Into the present stream stream- streambed streambed stream bed bed Commencement of the actual work climaxes efforts which ha have e been made since 1919 when the late Enos local business business- businessman businessman businessman man and rancher began promoting promoting promoting ing the project in a series of ar- ar artIcles articles ar articles published in the Express In recent years yeats the moving powers of the project have been Congress Congress- Congressman Congressman man Abe Murdock Murdoch Hyrum B Cal Cal- Calder Calder Cal der der and officers of the Ashley Res- Res Reservoir Res Reservoir company of which Robert Hunting is president I |