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Show WILL BE PLENTY OF WATER Additional Flow Also Will Be Used for Irrigation Purposes. The accompanying pictures are the first published photographs taken at the site of tbe South Pork dam and reservoir project, which is being developed de-veloped at a cost of $1 000,000 p-proxlmateh p-proxlmateh one-third of the project will be completed within the next twelve months, at a coat of SJGn.OOO. With the expenditure of 1350,000,1 the project will furnish Ogden CItj with an unlimited supply of water for1 municipal purposes and also furnish lO.oo.i acre feet for the irrigation of Weber county land Concrete construction con-struction on the 600-foot dam has I been started and it is the Intention of the city officials and officers of the Ogden River Reservoir company to complete the structure In time to Impound the flood waters of South Fork river In 191 4. Conceded to be the mv--i important project of northern I 'tab, tbe South Fork dam and reservoir will also he one of the largest water-Impounding plants of the entire state Wedged in a graceful arc between the rocky walls of tho South Pork canyon at a point about twenty miles east of the city, the 600-foot dam constructed, as intended at this time, to a height of 120 feet above the river bed. will impound im-pound approximately 10,000 acre feet of water, which Is equal to more than 400,000.(1011 cubic feet Considering that thousands of acres of Weber county land are now supplied with sufficient water for Irrigation, with the exeeption of two months of the year It Is readily realized what the storing of 10,000 acre feet of water for the dry period will mean to the future of Weber county At a height of 120 feet the dam will back the water for a distance of near-j near-j ly two miles to the east Eventually the dam will be constructed to the full helghth of 300 feet, whn 25,000 j acre feet of water will be backed into the mouth of Beaver canyon, a dis-' dis-' tance of more than three miles. All I plans and specifications have been 1 drawn for a dam of the height of 200 j feet, although the agreement between the city and company provides for a I 1 20-foot- structure which is to be an j earthwork dam with a reinforced con-1 crvte core to the full height of the ' i barrier Dr. Samuel Fortier, chief engineer' I for the 1'nlted States department of I I agriculture, has approved the bedrock! I which has been exposed for the entire j distance across the canyon In ad dltlon to this, he is of the opinion I that an earthwork dam with a con . crete core. Is the safest structure for the Impounding of water in South Fork. With a dam of this construe tlon, according to his report, the core wall inav be fractured at several points, yet the whole structure will remain intact and absolutely safe The slightest fracture in a dam of solid masonry impairs the whole barrier. The above story 61 the proposed i South Pork darn appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday. October 5th, with the pictures The Tribune Is the ', first paper in I'tah outside of Ogden ! to send its own photographer to the , dam site and write up the big enter- prise. The Tribune .-eems to recognise recog-nise the great importance of the South Pork dam and bearing on the future growth of Ogden. The Tribune loaned the picture to the Standard. |