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Show Is Bin C ON TR At 1 t II , m Am Davis & Weber Coiinties Carnal Company Starts Work on the Big: If! Power Plant to Be Built Near Riverdale Experts From the ij Government Reclamation Here to Study the Cement- . & Lined Canal. 'ttj On August 12 the DaviB &. Weber Counties Canal company will award a contract to the lowest bidder for the excavating of a reservoir aud pipe ditch, as the beginning of work on the big power plant south of this city near the Rltler farm at Riverdale, where 5,400 electric horsepower is to bo generated. The reservoir 1b to bo formed at the top of the hill along which the canal flows and will be the Intake point for the pipe lines to the power house The reservoir will be 10 feet deep and 200 feet by 400 feet, all con' cretel The ditch for tho pipe line will be 3,000 feet long, 20 'feet wldo and 9 feet deep. In this ditch will be buried two steel pipes, each 7 feet In diameter. diam-eter. From the intake to the power house there will be a fall of 200 feet, or sufficient, suf-ficient, with the available excess flow? of the canal, to generate more powe"i" than is now produced at the power plant at tho mouth of Ogden canjon, Later on tho contract will he lot for the excavating for the power plant Itself It-self and tho placing of the heavy machinery The company expects to bo generating gene-rating power within 10 months. Of the 5,100 horsnpower. 3,000 horset power has been contracted for at $00,-000 $00,-000 a year. Estimating the cost of the plant at 5350,000. this will p:y a handsome profit on the outlay, leaving leav-ing a surplus of 2,400 horsepower for extra dividends. Next year the dam of the company In East canyon is to be doubled In capacity by adding 40 feet to the height of the dam. Experts from tho government reclamation rec-lamation service were In Ogdeu last week to Investigate the company's concreted waterway and they were particularly interested in the moth- ods employed in preventing the ac- f fy cumulation of sediment on the inside laj of the curves and of the system used S in equalizing the expansion and con- j traction of the comeut blocks in the J; canal, cement having an expansion fjj about equal to that of steel. They to were shown the wooden Btrips be- I. tween each 12-foot section of the ce- ,ijM mont lining, which allow the cement (J I pieces to expand without leaks oc- '1 I curring. , R The cement-laid canal Is attracting I tho attention of Irrigation engineer?. fi all o-er the country. j: r it |