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Show Contract Let On Armstrong Reservoir "v Contract for added work on the Armstrong reservoir was awarded Thursday to the LeGrande Johnson V 'Construction company of Logan, according to Wm. Suuldberg, esc-retary esc-retary of the, Armstrong Irrigation company. When the need for strengthening of the dam arose it was decided to raise the height by four feet and thus increase the capacity of the reservoir some four hundred acre feet. Capacity of the reservoir which now holds 1100 acre feet will be raised to some 1500 acre feet. A n small dam nearby holds a reserve :; of 375 acre feet of water making ;Va total of around 18(H) acre controlled con-trolled by the Armstrong company. This resource enables the company com-pany to irrigate nine hundred acres of farm land north of Winflei and part of Banida. Work on the large dam. will be gin this week, according to the secretary of the company. |