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Show Development Work At Mociac Spring Almost Completed By D. M. Thompson Supt. 1M1-45, CCC CAMP The project involving the development de-velopment of Mociac Spring is almost al-most completed. The spring has been dug out to develop more water, wa-ter, and is being housed in to prevent pre-vent leaves and other debris from entering to clog the pipe. The exclusion ex-clusion of sunlight will also prevent pre-vent the growth of algea or moss. From the spring, a half mile of one inch pipe has been laid to bring the water to the storage tank on the east side of Mociac wash. The pipe is carried over Mociac wash on what is called a catenary span which simply means that is it suspended from a cable just like a suspension bridge. The cable Of course is anchored at both banks of the wash, to dead men. The storage tank is an earth reservoir, re-servoir, twenty feet square at the bottom and thirty feet square at the top, five and one-half feet deep. It Is paved with rocks and will be sealed with asphalt. At a depth of five feet there will be about 23,000 gallons of water in the reservoir. The outlet from the reservoir to the troughs is a two inch pipe and the How is controlled by a gate valve in this line. The valve will be kept closed at all times except (Continued on page five) I MOCIAC SPRING j (Continued from first page) when herds of cattle or sheep are being watered there. The overflow over-flow from the reservoir will be run through the troughs, thus keeping them :uli when the valve is closed. A cedar post stockade corral has been constructed one hundred and thirty feet by one hundred and seventy-five feet with a -wing one hundred and fifty feet long to facilitate corraling herds. The corral cor-ral is divided into two sections, cue, a hundred by a hundred and thirty feet which is for holding stock. The other section is seventy-five by a hundred and thirty and contains the water troughs. There are ninty-six feet of concrete con-crete water troughs in this section which should make it possible to water 200 to 250 head of sheep at a time or a hundred head of cattle. The whole project should be complete in another ten days and will cost only about eight hundred dollars. Located only a half mile off the road to Wolf Hole, it is easily accessable by automobile and inspection by the public is invited. in-vited. It is a good example of the kind and type of work being done by the CCC boys in this camp. |