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Show M FALLS TD DEATHJH WATER Idaho Falls, Ida., Dec 13 While working on the city water and light piantT where a crib dam is being put in, Joseph Saunders lost his life yesterday. yes-terday. Ho was standing on a plank and cut a rope holding It. The plank slipped on the Ice and went over the dam Into tho water with him. His body went under the ice nnd was carried away In the swift current He was about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and four children. In the spring of 1910 tho city employed em-ployed Lrfjuis P. Kelsej, then of Salt Lako City, to prepare plans for a water wa-ter and light plant. Tho contract for the work was let to Chatfield & Cutler Cut-ler of Salt Lake City, one of whom is a cousin of Mr. Kelsey. The machinery ma-chinery was purchased and the work was to have been completed last De-comber. De-comber. After working on it until September of the present year they finally gave up the job. The city settled set-tled with them and let a contract for putting in a crib dam, which Is considerable con-siderable of an undertaking In the Snake river. The former contractors had built a concrete dam on one side of an island isl-and and attempted to put in a loose rock dam on the othor side to turn the water Into another channel. The largo rocks went down stream as fast as put in.' They then built a concrete block weighing 120 tons, nnd dumped it into the channel, but it was carried down stream 200 feet in a moment. Tt was then decided to attempt to put in a crib dam, and it is believed it will hold. It Is now expected that tho entire work will be completed within tho next sixty days, and this city will havo a light and water plant worth a quarter of a mll'ion dollars. The extreme cold weather which came on so suddenly in November caught some of the farmers with beets still in the ground. The acreage acre-age and yiehl was much larger than ljsual and help was hard to secure. Tt is estimated that there are about 2,000 tons of -beets still in the ground.. |