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Show I T WORK BEING RUSHED. U :L Provo, Sept. 5. Work on tho Straw-H Straw-H f i berry valley propect is being rushed s j ' as fast as possible while the weather '. Is good. Supplies for the teams and j i men during the winter months are ' ij being freighted from Diamond switch j ;': The government has three camps of B ;' ' luen on the works, besides two or , three other camps maintained by con-I con-I '. tractors. Altogether there are now I ;' upwards of 500 men employed on the y works. During tho past month 274 i leot of tunnel was driven from tho west portal and 291 feet on thc oast end. The Ely Construction company t will commence work on tho diversion , . canal this week and tho big dyke on Indian Creek being constructed by tho Morrison Construction company la woll under way. L. C. Hill, supervising englneor for this district of the reclamation service ser-vice came in this evening from Arizona Ari-zona and tomorrow will go over tho works with Resident Engineer J. L. Lytel. |