Show WORK progressing those who have bavo felt elt that engineer H K chatfield and his associates have not been in in dead earnest respecting the impounding of 0 the spring waters in devils oate gate volley valley by the construction ot of two big dams would have all that pessimism taken out ot of them if they could see what is going on up at that point right now the force ot of men which has been on the job lor for a number of 0 weeks has made a most remarkable showing and the net result of 0 the work is tour four practically completed trenches for the foundation work of the dam one of which runs at right angles across the tha gulch from the top of the dam down along the hill and across the bottom and up the other side elde to the top of the dam this trench has been ex excavated a down to solid rock and is about three feet wide it will bo be filled with cement concrete to the surface level and act as a tie tor for the earthen dam to be built over it the other exe excava ava begin at the top of the dam and connect with the cement trench on both sides of the canyon and run diagonally down to the east to the bottom of the gulch where they cross and meet making one trench in the form ot of an aa immense V this second trench however will not be concreted but will be with clay which will form an effective barrier against seepage and yet will permit of expansion and contraction when these trenches have been properly filled in the bis labor of dumping in the dirt will begin already a trap has been erected high up on the north the gulch fitted with a long chute and expert miners are tunneling into the north hill tor for a distance of sixty feet when it is proposed to place a blast of pounds of black powder which will bo be set off for the purpose of blowing off the top of the hill this will not happen literally but the top of them the hm will be jarred loose so that scrapers can be used and that dirt will be pulled onto the trap and down to the bottom of emhe gulch ana ier tb at way the dam will will be constructed mr chatfield stated that the dam will be over three hundred feet thick and he declares that it will be so constructed that under every ordinary condition it will more than hold the vater crater to be impounded man cannot guard against earthquakes and a severe earth tremor would undoubtedly seriously damage the dam but it will take something like that to jar it in any way the teate engineer was on the ground last week and approved the work that has been done thus tar far and gave his hearty endorsement to the project the promoters have two large steam boilers at work on the job now the recent storms have caused no little trouble both by way of eave cave ins in the trenches and filling them with water one of the steam boilers is now supplying the motive power to a pump in the trench at the bottom ot of the gulch which is filled with water and which Is being forced up the steep hillside to the top where the water is deposited in a a cement cistern and used tor for supplying the boilers baders when the work of making the dirt fill begins mr chatfield stated tha in twenty days it would be completed he has made every effort to secure help in this community but has been unsuccessful so he Is forced to secure it elsewhere ile he proposes to push the work as far as possible this winter and states that the work that is now done will not be damaged by the flood waters next spring even though it Is unfinished it Is the intention of the company to have some water tor for sale next spring and the engineer has made calculations on losing fifty per cent of the stream in conducting it from the reservoir to the lands in this valley and says that even with this wide margin tor for safety the reservoir will impound sufficient clent water to furnish 1000 1600 acre feet of water it if it is found that the waste water will justify tiby the construction of a pipe line in order to save it that will bo ba done speaking ot of the attitude of brigham city toward the project mr chatfield declared that this city lost a golden opportunity when MA his prop proposition was turned down he smilingly advised that the price that win will have to be paid for water now will be ba much higher than the figure he offered it t to the he city tor for |