Show HOPE El fOR WATER IS 5 NOT G I EN UP WATER FOR COMING YEAR VEAR WILL NOT BE STORED AS WAS ONCE BELIEVED of Bids Bid For Co Co of American Fall Falls I 1 Dam May be Started At Once Boise Ida Ida of bids for the construction of the American American Am Am- Falls dam will be started at i once and proposals from contractors will be received January 15 in Ameri Ameri- American can Falls Falls' until 2 o'clock in the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon if recommendations to they the the interior interior in in- in- in tenor department made by officials m meeting in Denver Dec December 1 are carried out it was announced by W. W G. G Idaho commissioner of reclamation who has has returned from the conference The Idaho commissioner says that all hope for stored water in 1925 ha has been given up but that the present setup is such as to insure water for forthe forthe forthe the season of 1926 provided there is no further delay in advertising for forbids forbids forbids bids and letting the contract He Ile I says he expects telegraphic confirmation confirmation confirma confirma- tion of the adoption of the boards board's recommendations daily dally In revising the plan for building the dam the board submitted recommendations recommendations approximately as follows The bids be invited from contractors contract contract- ors ore for building of a dam with a large foundation over th the river elver section and anda a 1 superstructure giving a reservoir of acre feet That the government government government govern govern- ment reserve the right to increase the size of the dam so so as to provide a capacity of acre feet upon the giving of notice to the contractor at any time in advance of the completion completion completion com com- of the foundation work That the plans previously prepared ed sd d and adopted be utilized with the following change The original plan called for a rath rath- concrete bridge along th the top of the dam the estimated cost of which was around The boars boar recommended that this plan be changed chang ed and a steel bridge over the river section of ol the dam be substituted in place of the concrete bridge and that access to the said bridge be had by inclined approaches on either end of the river section The estimated saving by this change is more than The bridge thus recommended is equally as serviceable as the concrete structure structure structure ture will not detract from the appearance appearance appear appear- ance ante of the dam and lends itself more ore readily to raising if it and when the dam is raised to a higher eleva eleva- tion |