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Show WATER TURNED INTO NEW CHANNEL Dams Costing $25,000 Completed and Officially Accepted Tho big dnm nt tho Jordnn Narrows, Nar-rows, Utah, hao been completed nnd officially accepted. Tho water has been turned In. Mr. William Knight has had chargo of tho""work, which has been going on for tho past two ind one-halt months, most of tho work being dono by Lohl men. According Ac-cording to reports from somo of the best engineers, this Is ono of tho best dam3 in tho country. Tho main dividing dnm r-takes r-takes care of tho largor part of tho water Is built In tho old rlvor channel. chan-nel. It Is about fifty feot below tho old dam and in a lino with tho regular regu-lar chnnnel and tho old dam, which was put In to turn tho water through tho old gates. Tho now dam is of solid concroto ro-lnforced throughtout with steel. It has a floor 36 feot wide by 82 feet long. Tho dam Is 19 feot high with a 12-foot floor on tho top. it Is equipped with 4 radial gates, each having a 10-foot radius. These aro operatod with gears, which aro reduced from 80 to 1, making It easily eas-ily operated by ono man. Tho dam is 8 feet lower than tho old one, thus allowing much moro water to be drawn from tho lake. The wost division of the dam will Jjo used to carry water into tho Utah and Salt Lake canal. Tho gates In this part of tho dam aro of tho rack and pinion typo mado of steel and wood. Tho dams aro so costructed that tho oxact amount of wator running In tho Bovernl canals can bo determined deter-mined to tho gallon. This will abate much trouble, which has horetotoro been unavoidable, on account of not bolng ablo to mcasuro tho wator quickly nnd nccurntely. Tho old wooden dam was built by Achlbald Gardnor, father of Bishop James H. Gardnor about forty-five years ago at a nominal cost of $10,-000. $10,-000. It was tho only dam in tho Stato at that time and was a great credit to tho builder. It was known as tho beaver dnm typo. |