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Show ? sometimes there were as few as ten men at work. Later wages were i, raised to $2.50 and $100 per day, and they have got along better and a many as 7u men have been on Of Job r Trenches were dug from each end oi the dam towards the center for the cn-meet cn-meet core. Fart of the way these trenches had to be dug 33 feet to reach bed rock. On the north end the digging was through comparatively dry . giound, but on the south side many springs were struck aud much ulck sand ho that the work was slow and ; difficult. The heavy pressure of the . wet sand on the timbers that lined the trench caused them to break at times and there were many narrow escapes of the men engaged In d gglng. Hand ' that could be shoveled was hauled up In buckets, while In the lower part where the sand was very wet It was pumped out with sand pimps. Putiipn nlao had to be employed to keep the tiench clear ot water. Kach trench Is about 2'tll feet long, j Two cement mixers prepared the concrete which was dropped Into the upper end of the trenches. During the latter part of the work the cement had to be covered with earth at night to prevent It Ireezlng. At the time of our visit about half the length of the aou Hi trench had been filled with cement ce-ment and somewhat more than that In the north trench. The freezing weather was seriously hampering the work. The night before our visit . pumps rroe up and Mr. Zerbe, who Is doing the concrete work, did not believe work could continue many days longer. If work Is discontinued the trenches will have to be rilled up with earth and the rock rip rap relald over the face of the dam. At the toe of the dam between the two trenches already dug (here Is a distance dis-tance of 175 feet in which a continuation continua-tion of the cement core Is yet to be laid, but of course this cannot be done this winter, as they will have to begin be-gin impounding the water by the first of the year. This central portion la Die old river bed and we were told Hint It was f.O feet mostly through oulck sand to bed rock. It will be a difficult undertaking to put a cement wall down here. To an outsider It would seem as If t he dam would be In no better shape for the work done on It this season than it was before work was started on It, Hteel piling la used a great deal for coffer dams and work of this kind. It would weem a If It might be used here. It would be IiiiimtvIous to water as one pile overlaps the one adjoining. No trenching would be necessary aud the piles could be driven to bed rock. 1 The dam Itself provides ample strength for all the weight of water that ran be brought againxt It. The only danger dan-ger to guard aga'nat Is the seepage of water through the quick sand and this si eel piling core would effectually pre- I vent. It would seem ss If it could be more quickly an! cheaply put In than 1 any cement core. To lay a cement 1 rore to such a depth and through such K round will certainly be a difficult and 1 Mpenalve Job. ' - i V, . I Department of the Interior, C. K. 1 Land Office at Halt I-ake City. I'tah. I November 1. 1913. i Notice is hereby given that William 'onk, of Deneret, I'tah, who. on April i. 1909, made homestead entry Serial 1 s,'o. o:!070. for EH NKVi, E4 8KU tectlon 12, Township IS 8., Range X.. Salt l.akw Meridian, has filed ne ( Ice of Intention to make Final three-rear three-rear proof, to establish claim to the and above described, before the Clerk if the District Court, at Fillmore, I 'tah, on the 31st day of December, I2. ( rilinnt names as witness: George ' Croft. Charles Maker. Owen J. Conk, r ;eorge W. Fisher, all of Ieeret. t'tah. E. D. It. THOMPSON. Register. Nov. 2H-Dec. 2fl. THE SEVIER BRIDGE RESERVOIR. Th editor having heard a good tuany conflicting reports about the work on the dam of the Sevier llridge reservoir he stopped there on his way to Juab to look It over. It Is certainly certain-ly a tough proposition, both from an engineering and a financial standpoint, flmlth pros, first took the contract and brought down a lot of timber and ce went to begin work. On looking It over they threw the Job up, and a they had given no bond they could not be held to their contract. Work by day labor vri then begun by the companies interested in-terested early In October. The work was very disagreeable, dlKgiug in mud nd water and they had difficulty In keeping men. They would work a day or two and then quit, so that |
