Show THE Tn CANAL COMPANY Y ro X BEGINNING WORK I I With the odds of winter against them with the prices of hay am and grain at the top notches and the thi roads of the country in their usua usual poor condition owners of land under under I the Farnsworth ditch are making a valiant fight for success as f Having made mado adequate sleigh road to the reservoir site they are no now hauling hay grain and construction material ta to the lakes that they might commence construction work as soon as possible When this the Brown Duck I Lake ake reservoir is completed It will store 5 69 acre feet of water at an nn average cost of five dollars and sh sid sixty ty cents per acre foot or at an approximate total cost of thirty two thousand dollars The following work will have have to to be clone done In the construction construction construction tion of the reservoir 1264 cubic yards of l loam am sand and gravel cu cubic hie yards for loose rock fills cubic yards of dirt fin In making excavations and 00 cubic yards of solid rock will have to be moved 1080 square yards of dry paving and square yards of rip-rap rip will have to tobe tobe I be he made and cubic yards of concrete concrete concrete con con- crete will have ha to be he used A A dam will be he built at each of the four lakes vis Brown Duck lake No 1 an 18 ft dam Island lake lale No 2 21 a 15 ft dam the Kidney lake lako No 3 a 15 ft da dam and the upper unnamed unnamed unnamed un un- un- un named lake No 4 an 18 ft dam Five Fhe thousand dollars was spent on the work last year ear and It Is expect expected ed that the work will be completed complete this year In fact tact it Is hoped that some of the high water can be saved I I In the lower lakes this spring It ItIs Itis Itis is estimated that the water stored inthis In Inthis Inthis this reservoir will wUl make malee the farmers on the Ule acres under this system system tem tern absolutely Independent of the mean flow of oC the river and provide a large quantity of surplus for any other land that might In the future find It possible to to- come und under r I the ditch system that can be developed developed developed devel devel- to handle the water stored A fairly good wagon road has been built hullt to the site of the reservoir which can be used when the snow Is cone eone from It and it is open for tor the free use of the public This road was built by the people here without a cent of Federal aid ald This irrigation company has a reservoir now l built In the mouth of ot the canyon canyon canon can can- yon on which will probably also bo be enlarged enlarged enlarged en en- this year by raising the dam I ten feet and in making a cut of seven feet This will be he done by work while the new reservoir wilt will be built hullt b by borrowed money secured by company bonds in five thousand dollar dollar dollar dol dol- lar denominations Buyers are now bidding for the bonds The lower reservoir Is the site of one which when fully developed Is capable of holding 2770 acre feet of water and will cost two twenty-two thousand five red hundred dollars Ten or twelve hundred hun hun- dr dred d dollars worth of work will possibly possibly pos pos- sibly be he done on It this year and It Is ls figured that It will save san five dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars for the farmers for every everyone one spent The he control of this company is vested In a directorate of which George Lindsay is the secretary Mr Dave Dave Farnsworth Is the respected president of this very thrifty Com com- pany any |