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Show BEDROCK AT i THE DAM SITE Hi-i' ' As was reported to the city council H last night by the city engineer, and, H 'according to information given out H tills morning by the O'Neill const ruc- H tion company, It is a certainty that bedrock exists at a remarkably shal- ilow depth at the proposed dam site of the South Fork reservoir. This dispels aJl fear that the dam connot H be built oa mibstautial foundation at H tho point decided upon by .the pro- H! moters- of the reservoir and at the H giolnf considered most advantageous H for the storing of all the flood vatcrs H of tho Smith Fork branch of the Og- H In the center of tho dam site, bed- H rock has been encountered at a depth Hi of 1G feet below tho creek bed which, H) the engineer says, is about 23 feet H' below the .general surface of the H ground. On the south, side of the Hl creek, on the hillside, bedrock 'baa H ibeen found at a depth of only 4 feet. Hf' Thirty feet south of tho state road I bedrock was discovered at a depth of 20 feet and 100 feot north of tho stato road, it was found to bo only 1G h 'feet from tho surface H The entire territory across, tho Bl creek bed and well up the mountain 1 sides to tho north and south, has been Hi Investigated by sinking pits to bed- H rock, the average depths being as tho Hl figures indicate. These pits were H dug at points where it was thought HL bedrock most likely would not be B found, tho result being highly en- H "' couraging. To be certain that bed- H rock had been encountered, and to H ' feel assured that a hugo boulder was H not tho hardpan laid bare, holes were drilled and a chargo of giant powder B exploded. The effect of the blasts H w'as simply to shatter the upper sur- H face of tho ibodrock, it being dlscover- ed at tho bottom of the blast the formation for-mation was Intact and as Bolld as before be-fore tho shot was fired Only five days oO actual work has been done on the Job, but the trench Ik fully threo feet deep across the en tire site and it will not be many days beforo tbp foundation for the great dam will be uncovered. Tho woi, so far, has been prosecuted pros-ecuted advantageously and with dispatch, dis-patch, calling for words of praise by those who visited the place yesterday. There have been visitors at the works every day since It began but yesterday there wero more people at tho site than at any other day Among thoso who made an examination of Hie work yesterday were, Chief of Police Thomas E. Browning, Sheriff E E. IUrrlson, County Assessor T W. Mathews, County Rncorder Joseph Wallace and D. A. Smyth. " |