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Show work ends. The rest of the Ailing will be done by sluicing and when this is done the surface will be rlprappod and It will have a slope of 4 to 1. This will make the dam 725 feet through from front to back, and will make It the biggest and strongest earth dan, In the west. Every bit of the work is of the most thorough and aubstan-tlal aubstan-tlal character and It Is impossible to Imagine that the biggest flood could ever have any effect tipon It. II. E. Maxfleld, superintendent, of constructs construc-ts n has been on the Job every minute and has spared no expense or labor to make every piece of work as perfect as possible. L. Kimball has had charge of the concrete work and it has bei-n a job requiring skill and judgment judg-ment and it has been well done. The improvements completed and yet to be done will cost in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of half a million dollars and will be borne by the Sevier Land & Water Company, the Delta Land & Water Company, the Deseret Irrigation Irriga-tion com puny and the Melville Irrigation Irri-gation Company. Their several Interests In-terests in the 20 feet raise are 41 per cent to the Sevier Company, 26 per cent to the Deseret Company, 17 per cent to the Delta Company and 16 per cent to the Melville Company, With the Interests these several companies com-panies already have in the reservoir It gives each about an equal share of the 250,000 acre feet of water the enlarged en-larged reservoir will hold. A big force of men are now at work so as to complete the Job by the first of December. 109 names were on the pay roll this month and about 40 teams are at work. The force is camped just below the dam and make quite a settlement Some of the men have their families and live in tents. The others bunk In tents and cabins and get their meals in the big company com-pany dining house where Mrs. Murray Fisher feeds from 70 to 80 hungry men at every meal, and If all the meals are as substantial as those the editor got while there ber boarders have no kick coming. There is also a company store presided over by Nick Adam-son, Adam-son, the time keepfc'.', who, with his high brow and colored glnssea tadds a touch of dignity to the establishment. establish-ment. As there will be more water stored In the enlarged reservoir than will be required around Delta the Deseret and Melville Companies are planning to sell some of their surplus to the farmers of Juab county. Tbey are anxious to buy 22.000 acre feet to carry on to the land east of Juab, and enable them to convert it Into orchard land for which it Is especially suited. The plan would be to use the turblm at the dam to generate electricity which would be carried to the northeastern north-eastern edge of the reservoir where l would drive pumps to raise tne water Into canals extending along the bench to the north. The farmers woud pay $100 per acre for the water which would afford a nice revenue to the i Deseret and Melville Companies. 1 There should certainly be no trouble I about an abundance of water next ' season for the lands around here. I With water at the 60-foot level It will ifford a larger storage than ever be- fore and It should be at that level Song before the Irrigation aeason opens. The sluicing In and raising of the 1 lam will be done during the irrigation leason. After the water goes down the 1 rlprapplng will be completed and the 1 following season the water will be raised to the 80-foot level. 1 Nature seems to have designed this 1 location as a reservoir site. The nar. row passage between the hlfls on sch side is an ideal site for a dam. Die clay banks on one side, the sand 1 lllls on the north side, the outcrop- ting stone below the sand hills and 1 :he river sand below the daw for con- 1 'rete furnish all the material re- 1 in I red in constructing the dam. On ' his account the cost of the dam is ' tiurh below that of reservoirs of ( nuch smaller capacity, while there Is ' io dam In the west more ntattslve or 1 tafe, 1 .. . 2 THE BIG DIM OF THE SEVIER BRIDGE RESERVOIR How the Dam Is Being Enlsrged and Strengthening Preparing to Raise It by the Hydraullo System. The editor spent a day at the Sevier fsrldge reservoir last week to learn by observation the character and extent ex-tent of the work that has ben going on at the dam since lust May. Only by a personal visit can one realize what a big work has been going on or how substantial It is. During the summer while the reservoir reser-voir was full the work consisted of putting in a rock wall 80 feet below the back of the dam, and In cutting out the tunnel for the turbine wheel that Is to run the pumps for sluicing the earth on to the dam. The rock was taken from the side of the hill on the north of the dam, a track being laid from the quarry to where the rock was to bo laid. This rock wait extends ex-tends clear across the width of the dam at the bottom and is 20 feet high. The space between the wall and the dam will bo filled In by sluicing to the top of the dam making a elope of two and one-half to one. The chamber for he wheel and pumps Is In a tunnel cut out of the solid rock and connected with the tunnel through which the overflow of the reservoir Is carried. The wheel chamber is concrete lined and Is 10 feet across and 12 feet long. Each end of the chamber Is closed by a 'oncrele bulkhead and water is led into the chamber by an Iron flume 48 Inches In diameter. After passing through the wheel It Is discharged through a short tunnel underneath the wheel. The upper end of the pipe Is connected with one of the three gates in the tunnel, w hich are operated through the well to the top of the dam. The other two gates govern the overflow over-flow water through the tunnel. The water from the two spiral forcepumps Is to be forced through a line of ten-Inch ten-Inch Iron pipes 292 feet long to a clay snd gravel bench north of the dam and will be delivered through a three or four Inch nozzle against the bank, washing It down( and carrying It through an iron sluice box to the center cen-ter of the dam 1400 feet dlstanct. Here It will be divided Into two streams, one to the Inside and one to the outside of the dam. After the back of the dam has been sluiced full it wll be rlprapped. This work of sluicing, bow-ever, bow-ever, will not be done until the reservoir reser-voir Is full and the water Is flowing through the tunnel for Irrigating. It Is entlmated that the pumps will wash down 2500 yards of dirt every day, so It will not take long to raise the dam 20 feet and fill In the front and back. The top of the dam will be 40 feet wide and 800 feet long. The sluicing In of the dirt will thoroughly puddle It and make the dam Impervious to sater. About the middle of September shen the reservoir was nearly empty he force of men and teams was In-;reased In-;reased and the work on the front , f the dam was begun. The portal of he old tunnel was uncovered and a ut through the solid rock made for i distance of 223 feet up stream. At he upper end a coffer dam was con- , tructed and inside this a gate tower , f concrete ten feet on the Inside was , milt up ten feet A cut was then , nade through the upper side of the lam to carry the water to the portal f the tunnel and permit a concrete , uiinel to be made connecting the ( ower with old tunnel through the ipen cut. Flefore the connection j on Id be made the water bad to be hut off and It was lively work get- , Ing the concrete tunnel completed , nd the connection made before the ( rater rose over the front of the dam. , ls soon as the connection was made , he gates in the tower were raised , md the water permitted to flow , hrough the tunnel. , The gate tower was- then built up nother 20 feet This is as high as t will be built this season, but It illl finally be constructed to a height if 80 feet. The walls of the tunnel i nd tower are 11 laches thick of con-rete con-rete S to 1 and reinforced with tbree-luarter tbree-luarter Inch steel rods spaced 12 nches In each direction. 4100 casks of I enient were used. The sand used was I muled from th old river bed below ; be dam which Is very clean and con- j alns the exact proportion of gravel eqttlred. 1 In the meantime while the work on he tunnel and tower was going on a ' tring of teams was kept busy haul-tig haul-tig sand and clay from tha adjoining Ills on to the front of too dan ex- t ending It up stream distance of 1 bout 200 feet The face of the dam 1 aa first plowed up ao that a ctoe aonectlon could be made between le old and new earth. Aa the sand ad clay were dumped It was scraped rd leveled down, then sprinkled with aste and Anally rolled with a four-a four-a cement roller. In thla way the hole front of the dam was built up r 20 feet, or where tie old riprap |