Show NG I B BuG G WAY Eight Concrete Mixers Are Supplying Material for the Improvements on the Davis and Weber Counties Canal Engineer Bostaph Has Large Corps of Surveyors in the Field E Between n four and five hundred men are arc now employed on the time construction work of the Davis Duls and ani r coun COUll counties ties tics canal and the big ditch Itch d Is being concreted at a rate of several hund hundred hundred red feet per ler day dar darrhe tin i iThe e erime The rime concreted canal when completed ed ell will vill be nine nino and miles In itt length and anti at nt the present time lime five miles of the thi waterway has hos been put In shape for the placing of the cement Ono One and miles of the ditch Is finished and the tIme cement Is being laid at a rate of feet per day City Cit Engineer V N Bostaph who is In Imi charge of the time gigantic task stated stat cd this morning f that lint the work could not be he completed before the are aro caught t by bythe h bythe the cold weather hilt but that ho expects w wh th ordinary conditions In the late Into spring he tho canal will be ue in readiness I for fat Irrigation purposes when It bo ho 0 comes time limo to In some respects the Improving of o I the time canal Is offering problems in iii en that thal have hn ve not nol hitherto been I soled At one point In Its Us course I the time engineers engineer are virtually holding buck back a mountain mount aln with steel bands and cement Thousands of tons of earth carth anti and rock are arc being bein kept from fromn rom burying bunin the time canal only by the th skillful art of the engineers in charge The workmen havo have really Mocked an avalanche that would have hidden hundreds of feet of the time canal from sight Bight Sl Six concrete mixers mixer each ach with a ca en I I I of oC supplying material for f r lineal feet feel of the time ditch per iP day ulay are arc areat areat at work anti and two to more will be ue started tomorrow Time The hc entire length or the canal conal will vill willbe willbe be he ready for time the concrete workers by bythe bythe 1 the first of the time month and the con concrete concrete crete will wili be lie all hi iii place by h Xo oom em ember her ber 25 No work worl however has yet ret been done in the canyon The will be wider and if the th theline line of the canal will be e changed and made from Crom IC I G to lo 20 feet foot In width This Is work which will vilt probably not be ue done until spring When hemm completed the canal will vill ho bo 22 feet wide at ilL the tho bottom and 31 feet Ceet at tt the top It will hare havo a capac capacity ity It of carrying carl ing cubic feet feel of o water wilter pet per second enough to so Irrigate acres of land It Is now estimated that the work will cost between 50 00 antI and which will amount to about per lineal foot A power plant which Is to be erect erected erected ed near will vill manufacture from the waters fall fail electricity equal to lo horsepower hor much of this energy has hag already been contracted con This power nover will bring to the stock stockholders stockholders holders holden of tho the canal company compan OOOO annually i The flie men In iii charge of the work are arc J G Wood general manager M 11 M 1 Whiteside general superintendent with William Doyle Dole and anti the Gulls Concrete company doing tho the concrete work worl Engineer Yn ha lint under him him four corps of or engineers ors in the Held field I |