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Show hRMY OF MEN' 1 WORKING SN I CANYON anager Joseph S "Wells, Engineers IjL. L. Dagron and O l. Hannold and nJLocal Manager S T. Whitaker of the Utah Light and Railway company vfinade an Inspection through Ogden canyon yesterday afternoon and re-Imort re-Imort that they are well pleased with jfjthe progress that is being made in jwcleaniug tho reservoir above the dam jfand In repairing the pipe lines bc-if.tween bc-if.tween the mouth of Ogden canyon Qand tho power dam. J In removing the debris from tho bottom of the reservoir, tho workmen Share reached the point where the wa- Itcr flow of the river does most ot tho cleaning Tho channel Is now un-Sder un-Sder perfect control and the water Is turned from one point to another ,Groat quantities of ailt are moved .-from the reservoir and It will not be 5 many weeks before the entire water basin will be cleared of mud. M While the great pipe leading from I the powerhouse to the dam Is empty, "the company id having it repaired tfrom the mouth of the river to tho power dam Men are working in the big pipe, testing the staves and re-a-palring whenever a defective one 1? jglfound. Repair work is being dono jjfihow on about 500 feet of the pipe aud jthore is a half mile of pipe near the Mdaci that has been repaired by pul-Ijtlng pul-Ijtlng new staves. fk This conduit is six feet In diameter diam-eter on the Inside and men have no fgdlfficulty In standing upright on the 8 Interior In repairing and replacing the a staves. The pipe line virtually will a bo mado new before the job is over. It .S Is the first Inspection of the pipe f from the interior since it waa built. 4 The improvements that are being I made in the city and the canyon by I the Utah Light and Railway company ffiwlll amount to nearly a quarter mll- lion dollars, all expended within i. i months' time. The regular annual payroll of tho' 'company for emplojes in the cit lrisi reached 50,000. Yesterday the com-, pany paid to the county treasurer for taxes nbout $12,000. Twelve miles of gas pipe are now In the ground in the city and It has been planned that 20 mile j more will be laid as fast as men can do the work. lucludlug the force of men at wort for the Utah Light and Railway company, com-pany, the Ogden Rapid Transit company com-pany and the forty men at work foi the Ogden River Reservoir company on the South Fork resenolr project, Local Manager S. T Whitaker say3 there are more men at work in Ogden canyon today than at any time in the history of the couutry. Some of the men go from the city to their work each morning, but a great many are camping In the canyon. Practically Practi-cally all the money earned by thlo army of workers Is spent in the city. |