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Show ELECTRIC DREDGES . TO BE OPERATED . Reservoir in Ogden Canyon to be Cleaned of Its Heavy Bed of Mud By Electrically Propelled Hydraulic Suction Pumps Cement Work to Commence on Extension of the Dam. Eloctric hydrantic dredges will bo used on the reservoir of the Utah Light & Railway company in Ogden Og-den canyon to deepen the reservoir hy removing the mud which has accumulated ac-cumulated to a depth of several feet over tho entire area covered by water. wa-ter. The mud will be sucked up by powerful pumps and forced over tho dam through pipes leading from the dredges to tho apron of tho dam. The electric powor for the dredges will be oupplled by stringing a wlro from the powor plant at the mouth of tho canyon. Within the next fow days tho work of laying the cement dam from tho water edge of tho present dam site to the hardpan forty feet north, will he. begun. This piece of cement will be five feet .high and five feet thick. It will ho extended under the county road for the purpose of reaching reach-ing bedrock across to the mountain side to prevent a washout at that point. It will require only a few days' tlmo to complete it Work on raising the dam proper will begin at a later date. |