Show IDAHO RESERVOIR TO BE BUIlT SOON UTAH COMPANY IS RECOMMENDED RECOMMEND RECOMMEND- ED BY DISTRICT BOARD AS BUILDERS OF DAM Preferred Bid Did Is If Present Plans Plains Carry Work Will Begin During the Month of November r American Falls Idaho The Idaho The Ameri Amen American can Falls reservoir district board has recommended to the s secretary of the interior that the Utah Construe Construe- Construction tion company bid of for forthe forthe forthe the construction of a storage dam darn of feet acre capacity be accepted accepted ac ac- accepted ac- ac and approved The boards board's recommendation has been mailed to he Denver office of the reclamation bureau It is estimated that the award may maybe maybe be Je made by the secretary within ten Jays lays and that work may begin with- with n n three weeks It is agreed here between between be be- tween representatives of the construction construction construe construe- tion company the r reclamation bureau md ind the reservoir board that every possible means will be employed to obtain an appreciable amount of ot stored water in the American Falls reservoir by June Junc 1925 to protect water users of the valley against a of another shortage Recommendation as to the success- success ul bidder came after two da days days' s de- de and stud study on the part of or orthe the reservoir board members In the inal mat analysis it was found that the bids were all reasonably close the Utah Construction company was the successful bidder because it was found to have the equipment on hand with which to do ho the work had done similar jobs before and could begin L work vork immediately The recommendation of the reser reservoir voir board that the contract be award- award d d for the low dam follows out the decision of the secretary of the interior in in- tenor that authorization would not be given iven for the construction of the higher high high- er en dam feet acre-feet capacity until participating irrigation districts hall have deposited depos in cash with the department of the interior I This sum would be equivalent to per er foot acre-foot for the additional feet acre-feet that would be stord stored stor stor- ed d by the high dam damn Engineers estimate that irrigation districts could come in and and participate participate participate pate in the storage on the above cost basis not later than the fall of 1925 at which time the dam darn would be bc well wellon on toward completion If this should take place and the dam be built to the feet acre-feet capacity the sot ot of the thc stored water would be reI reduced reduced re re- re- re to 5 per foot acre as against I 7 per pel foot acre-foot should the low dambe dam damI dambe I be completed Several upper valley as well as the Gooding disI dis- dis I net are expected to participate in he construction costs at a later date i Should the award be made to the I Ut Utah h Construction Cons company a as recommended roe rec om mended b by the reservoir board En En- giner Paddock who superintended i ithe the construction of the Hetch dam in Ca California will come conic to American American Amer Arner- ican lean Falls to superintend actual r reclamation rec c. c service engineer and is reputed reputed re re- re I to be 00 among the best engineers available for the kind of work that I will be done at American Falls |