Show WORK STOPS CANAL WORK BEGINS A E smith has returned to his home in Cast ledale from big gooseberry reservoir the great proposition being engineered by the utah irrigation power co mr smith has been employed as n watchman at the reservoir for some time work was shut down there on the alt and most of the men and teams headed for price and helper where work will be resumed on a mam moth scale on the canal from which a laige acreage in thit section will be ini gated just before closing down there vere teams at work on the reservoir which is now up to a heights of 30 feet sixty more feet is go on the top of tt e great dam emch is feet wide at its base and is perhaps the strongest of its kind in the west being largely a concrete proposition its foundation rests upon solid bedrock obtained bv excavating until all doubt of the sol city of the foundation was assured the great dam is of concrete maintained by concrete walls of mam moth proportions one of the first items of work to be done on the canal will be the establishment of a diverting dam a a point cne and one half miles above price from where will be taken to a portion of the lower land in that section while the canals and laterals are being constructed to irr gate the h gher lands mr smith speaks with enthusiasm concerning the management of the company particularly of the work of engineer F R coates and M S darrow assistant engineer every court esy is extended the employed emp loyes all of whom feel friendly to the enterprise and its promoters |