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Show i FORESTRY DEPT. AND CCC BOYS MAKEPROGRESS i For sometime reports have been coming into the News office J of the fine work that was bciug done by the CCC boys, under the P direction of the Forestry, depart-5 depart-5 nient, on the Santa Clara river. . Last Tuesday it was the News f editor's good fortune to be taken on a tour of this work. J. C. Tolton, superintendent of camp of the Forestry department, was the guide, and he presented the '1 work accomplished in a very in- teresting and thorough manner. "This work," said Mr. Tolton, , "consists of two projects. . The i lower which is very important is ' ; in part dependent on the ujpper. The lower consists of the build-1 build-1 ing of stone walls or levees to I keep the stream within a sixty I 'oot stream bed, and the digging 1 if a new stream bed wherever '.ecessary to straighten out the ed and keep it from cutting turner tur-ner into the banks and destroy-ng destroy-ng valuable farm lands." With he keeping of the stream in the lounds that the engineers have roved necessary, pointed out Mr. Tolton, much valuable land will f oe reclaimed- through the river L building up by depositing soil, "here is a remarkable amount of '"Sdiment carried by the river ZUend in the short time that the stDck levees have now been in it ."' possible to see where the land J .as been built up as much as Vjhree and four feet. Pa: These levees, which consist of ocks tied together with hogwire, ! will let the water and sediment 'erUhrough and this way will gradually gradu-ally build up even the back 'areas. So that in addition to protecting the land that hasn't I been washed away, there will be J created many acres of land that will be available for cultivation. : The levees vary in length from !'f fifty feet to as long as 500 feet, iC; and from four to eight feet in height with a base of four to : five feet on a four foot wall and eight feet on an eight foot wall, r!; tapering up to about three feet er. at the top. It is necessary to tie o: two or more widths of wire to-f to-f gether to cover or enclose the I rocks in. A very ingenious tool has been made with which the boys use wire to tie them as ,r . strongly as could be done at the 1 ' factory. These walls are first f underlaid with willows, part of j", which will start to grow and will further enhance their value. At different points Mir. Tolton point-jj; point-jj; ed out places where the river u- had been washing away valuable farm land. Land that would s have been further doomed if the flood control work hadn't been j; accomplished. At one point it j would have only been a matter j; of time until a farmer's home ji and farm building would have 1 been washed away, j j This work was purely experi-jj! experi-jj! mental at first and in watching 5 the way that it has withstood the 5 current of the river they have been able to improve their work and have learned to accomplish j,f. a great deal more with less ma-ffl ma-ffl terial and labor. They also have ti.; definite proof of the tremendous acj value of the work they are doing j f and what can be hoped for it over a period of time. ' Their plans and work have been to keep the river in a sixty fot bed and to straighten the course of the stream. Before this work was done the stream would hit one bank and then turn and go across to the other side and take a swipe at it. With the type of soil that lines the river , it was only a matter of time until valuable land was washed away. 01 This has been overcome by dlg-8t dlg-8t ging a new stream bed at many 511 points and the building of the walls to keep it within the sixty foot bed. It was not found necessary nec-essary to do very much dragging, . as soon as water could be start-; start-; ed in the new bed a spring tooth i harrow was used and by keeping 2 J the dirt attired up with the $ j water, the stream would wash ( out its own bed. j After visiting the lower pro-I pro-I Jeet Mr. Toltom then took the j editor to see the upper project i which is being built on the Shev-j Shev-j wits Indian reservation. Altho 1 j fhis dam that will , impound a , (Continued on page 4) .6; j ! PROGRESS OF S C PROJECT (Continued from first page) certain amount of water, Mr. Tolton put particular emphasis on the fact that the government la building this wholly with the idea of flood control, since it is the policy of the administration at tills time to not bring any more land under cultivation. This dam when completed will be used to help control any flood water that may come down the creek. While the dam as it is to be constructed will not hold a great deal of water, still it will be able to hold back enough that the peak of the flood will be kept from rushing down the stream and creating havoc. As Leo A. Snow, the engineer in charge of the dam, pointed ont, even if the storm were to last for sometime the peak would iunra si me aam and a steady stream would be allowed to flow through. This control coupled with the work that has been done on the lower stretches of the river should make it possible pos-sible to keep the river from doing do-ing serious damage. At the dam the writer was introduced in-troduced to Hyrum Kunz, general gener-al foreman; George Maise, who has charge of the rock work; Oscar Os-car Lyman, foreman, and Claude Tulley, who has charge of getting get-ting the rock that will be used in the dam's construction. L. M. Winsor, who is in the Bureau of Irrigation in the Division of Engineering En-gineering of the Department of Agriculture, is the man who suggested sug-gested the design of the dam. The dam, which is located just liaUiir nlJ w ulu cupper smelter, is to be 750 feet long at the top, will hare a . base of 85 feet in width, with an eight foot cut-off wall at the bottom with an eighteen eigh-teen inch concrete poured between be-tween the rocks. The wing walls are to be ten feet on top and the : - dam is to be thirty-eight feet above the channel of the stream. . The spillway will be consructed : of rock and cement and will be fifty feet in width and located twenty-three feet above the chan- . nel at about the middle of the . ; dam. Since it is being built as a flood control dam they are con-i con-i structing it in such a way that the water can seep through and come up lower down the stream. , It is possible that this may create . jnew springs and raise the water ' Wei in the ground below the There is to be a tunnel built -on the north side of the dam which will take care of the normal norm-al fiow of the stream. This win Tie constructed of rock and cedent ce-dent and will be five feet in width and seven feet in height . Over a mile of road had to be built part of which is for the replacing re-placing of the road that followed up the stream and part was road needed in the building of the lam. Considerable blasting had to be done, and much work was encountered in the building of these roads. Securing of rock for the dam T Cl'itfted b" the targe quantity quan-tity of rock on both hill sides of rtrfn". m- This rock is beI Tw?V,and th6n amited TwelvS ton of concrete was used in building one dead man for : the overhead cable. This was tied into a big rock which will add much to its weight. The overhead over-head cable is one and one-half inches in diameter, 750 feet in r!?f?'i!I hSTe 3 eaS f twentv feet and will be able to carry up to four tons. This cable will be used to carry an materiais used in the dam's construction after it becomes to high to work on from below. m i!' lestl'mated at the dam will back up the water approximately approxi-mately a haif mlIe pp four hours to fi it win he ab" flood peak and should be able to control the flood waters in this way. The tunnel with its gate wii, handl th regular flow of water There are about one hundred Ject aWn WrkinS n tbis Proper Pro-per at the . present time. They t",? b6en- there sin the first 0f Le"-Conside-ble time was, T, u un e preliminary work "ff " 13 belie that the Zs work in the future. there , is any doubt in the readers mind as to the vaiue- o the ; work that these boys have of She forestry division, he or she -rtou take the time to go that are under construction If w th:da T wi e back with a hearty appreciation of XZLhat-they WartinJJ 70Ur heart that Washington County was lucky enough to have the boys located' It, |