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Show lie knew of no other earthen dam with so little seepage, anil pronounced li unqualifiedly sate as Applied to the present capacity of the dam. Engineer Hardy, w ho built the dam, said It whs built over two puddled core walls 12 feet thick and two 8 feet, set In very hard clay. He pronounced It absolutely abso-lutely safe. Mr. Snow stated further that If they enlarge the dam they propose pro-pose putting in 2.".0.(mii) yards of earth on tho lower side of the dam to make the slope conform to that on the upper up-per side, and provide a 20-foot crest or roadway. They would have Installed Install-ed a concrete core this fall, but the water was not let out of the reservoir early enough to do It. Mr. Snow states that they will have the water out of the reservoir by September 1 next faJI and the ground ready and material on hand to put In the concrete con-crete core so as to make assurance doubly sure. A letter was enclosed from Engineer It. U. Lyman, staling that the water In the reservoir was being lowered to 3.1 or 40 feet, as there was no need of keeping the reservoir full now, when It could be quickly filled when the spring freshets come. In regard to the flume Mr. Snow stated that the company Intended ih xI f ill to put In a sU-cl flume alongside the present wooden flume, but there was no real necessity for putting It In this spring. According to Engineer Lyman's reiort, the flume was six feet wide, four feet high and had a drop of one In a thousand. This gave It a capacity ca-pacity when the- water was one foot of the top of 126 cubic feet per second, sec-ond, sufficient to water 12,000 acres of land In 100 days. With the flume filled to the top It had a capacity of 187 cubic feet per second, enough to Irrigate 18,700 acres In 100 days. While the report on the dam was ac cepted as generally satisfactory, It was doubted by everyone whether the flume could carry that much water or If It did, whether It r.ould deliver that amount through the many miles of canals on in -v'roieeL lntace 4vw given by nearly every one present of the length of time' It took to soak up the canals and get the water to my great distance. It was felt by every one of experience that not half the water carried through the flume would be delivered on the land for use In lr-, rlgatlon. Also that If water was not turned Into the canals before April farmers wouldn't get water on the northern end of the tract until June or later. A committee was appointed to Investigate the matter and communicate commu-nicate the results to Mr. Snow. President Watts reported the result of his labors with the county commissioners commis-sioners In getting a county road through the Delta tract. The board has agreed on a road from the bridge two miles west, thence four miles north, thence one mile west to connect con-nect with the road from Hinckley and thence five miles north. A communication from Engineer Martin was read, in which he asked the association to let him know what bridges needed repairing and he would get the material out and have them fixed at once. The association thin adjourned to meet the first Saturday In February. THE BIG DAM AND DELTA FLUME. Th regular monthly meeting of the Water Users' association wss held at A. Arkerman s last Saturday evening. Notwithstanding the cold evening, there was a good attendance. The principal matter before the association was the consideration of a lengthy letter from Manager Snow of the Delta Del-ta company. This letter wss in answer to one from the association, asking about the stability of the Sevier bridge dam and the capacity of the presett flume to supply water for the Increased number of acres that will be cultivated the coming season. In regard to tho dun snd the statement state-ment that water wss seeping out from under it. Mr. Snow wrote that there was no silt In the water that seeps out and that the set page Is decreasing In stesd of increasing, showing that the settling of sediment In the reservoir was making It more water tight. F.n S'neer Tuh. of Idaho, rejiorted that |