Show ECHO DAM PROJECT APPEARS POSSIBlE MASSIVE DAM TO BE BUI BUILT L T IN UTAH IF TION IS CONSIDERED Will Cost Two Million and a Half Dollars ard and Will Necessitate Mow Mowing Mowing ing of Railroad Salt Lake City The The Utah Water Storage Commission at the request of the Bureau of Reclamation recommended mended that the first unit for construction construction construction con con- on the Salt Lake Basin pro pro- Mr Vim Wm R. R Wallace is chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of Salt Lake City A. A F. F Doremus Doremus Doremus Dore- Dore mus of Tooele State ex-State Engineer is vice chairman and Mr Garrison state engineer is secretary of the Water Vater Storage Commission Other members include Dr Widtsoe who was a member of the Special Advisory Advisory Advisory Advis Advis- ory Committee investigating for the Reclamation Bureau during the past year They recommended a unit for construction construction construction con con- of this project and that unit consisted of a dam darn at the Echo site to store with a capacity of 74 acre feet of water a diverting canal to divert surplus water in the V Weber ber River to the Provo River for use by canals diverting from the o River and the of Utah Lake The Echo reservoir is located on the main Weber River apprOXImately approximately approximately three-quarters three of a mile southeast southeast southeast south south- east of the town of Echo The dam darn proposed is of the earth filled type I with rock face As contemplated ted it will be about feet high and have a top crest length of 1800 feet The estimated cost is approximately two and one-half one million dol dol- lars The construction of the dam darn involves the relocation and reconstruction reconstruction reconstruction recon recon- of approximately five miles of the Park City branch of the Union Pacific railroad and about four miles of the Lincoln Highway At present I both the railroad and the highway are located in the proposed reservoir I I bed At present no construction nas started and will not until Congress I makes money available for the work and ind contracts satisfactory to the secretary secretary sec see of the interior are arc entered into by the parties who will use the reservoir reservoir reser voir storage water There was an appropriation appropriation appropriation ap ap- ap- ap in the second Efficiency Bill appropriating for the project and there is pending at present pres ent in the interior department nation bill between and andone andone andone one million dollars S The Bureau of Reclamation is now busy making plans for the relocation of the railroad and highway and aro are also testing the site Elwood Mead of the United States reclamation bureau visited Utah and andset andset andset set forth that to secure the appropriation appropriation for building the reservoir it would be necessary to dispose of ot the water which it was proposed to impound impound impound im im- im- im pound for irrigation purposes He specified that the reclamation bureau would deal only with legally incorporated incorporated incorporated and functioning irrigation companies Immediately the water users of Davis and W Weber counties got busy and with A. A P. P Biglow an Ogden banker who is also a director of the Davis and Weber counties canal canal canal can can- al company as chairman started a campaign which resulted in the several several several sev sev- eral irrigation companies of the twO counties subscribing for all the water water wa wa- vater va- va ter which the reclamation bureau of of- fer All the contracts were in form formas as specified by the reclamation engineer engin eer the Utah state engineer and the Utah Conservation Commission The project will permit the extension extension extension exten exten- sion of the Davis and Weber Wieber Canal company's south branch canal and will extend into Haight's branch and other lands in Davis Dayis and Weber counties will be fully watered adding millions of dollars annually to the production of the fields and orchards |