Show stork OX bew DAM AT STARTED construction of the new concrete ach dam at enterprise Is going forward rapidly and the excavation work will be compiled and the foundation laid this fall according to L M engineer in charge ot government irrigation investigations in utah the dam was started october it has a capacity of approximately acre feet and was built for tho purpose of supplementing the old reservoir which Is insufficient to store all of the water available the approximate cost ot the new structure will be mr has returned to salt lake after an inspection of the project and the work being done in the east mallard canal district the building of a concrete bridge where the canal crosses the mallard county road six miles northwest of fellmore was begun last monday the enlargement of the lateral ditches of the canal company held up because of the shortage of money due to a slow tendency an fn the sale of crops has begun the harvest was exceptionally good on the acres district which were under cultivation this season according to mr the yield of wheat was approximately forty bushels per acre and the oat yield forty five bushels mr said that his alons of the possibilities of developing additional water from flowing wells in iron beaver mallard utah salt lake thoele tooele dails and weber counties were exceedingly encouraging the work has been carried on in cooperation with the experiment station of the utah agricultural college salt lake tribune |