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Show WORK AT THE DAM SITE IN CANYON Manager J. P. O'Neill of the O'NoIl Construction company is in the city, spending Christmas with his family. He came down from his camps at the Cobble Creek dam site Saturday evening, even-ing, but will return to tho work tomorrow. to-morrow. Mr. O'Neill sayB that the end ot tho work in stripping the dam site for the big South Fork reservoir project is in sight and that. If no unforsecn difficulties are encountered, tho Job will bo completed Saturday night. Ho has twonty-fivo men at work removing remov-ing the dirt from the bedrock and good progress Is being made. Tho big derrick has been removed to another position and the flume to carry the water of tho creek over tho proposed slto has been completed. Mr. O'Neill says that the laBt hole for bedrock bed-rock has been sunk, tho bedrock having hav-ing been uncovored at a depth of 31 feet, and that tho dopth to be reached at other points over the river channel Id definitely fixed. The bedrock is being uncovered tho full width of IS foot, thore remaining remain-ing but a short distance to bo done. Substantial bedrock has beoa uncovered uncov-ered across tho Cobble Creek dam-site dam-site so far, and it is anticipated that thero will be no difficulty encountered, encoun-tered, in finding bedrock in tho territory ter-ritory whore tho work is now being doqe. |