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Show II STARTS Oil THE RESERVOIR M mm city Brlgham City, Aug. 15. Work on the Devil's Gate reservoir project has at last started. Yesterday Engineer H. K. Chatfield, chief engineer and promoter of the big irrigation project to be located about eight miles back in the hills from this' city, departed for the dam sites with three teams and a number of men to do the preliminary pre-liminary work on tho sites preparatory to putting a large force of men and teams to work later so as to complete com-plete tho dams before winter. This Irrigation project is one that has created a great deal of Interest in this city, where the' water Is proposed pro-posed to be used in reclaiming the arid stretches of 'fertile land lying Idle all around. Tho high water to be stored back of the huge dams in Devil's Gate valley, Is of sufficient volume to irrigate hundreds of acres of land. All the high water of Box Elder El-der creek comes from the Devil's Gate watershed. The engineers, who are from Salt Lake, have been at work on the propject for four years, making surveys and measuring the high water each spring. Last spring Brlgham City sent a representative to the site of tho proposed dams to take official measurements, and the test proved so successful that all doubt in the minds of Brlgham people was removed. The promoters havo had no little trouble in interesting capital owing to the fact chiefly that they had nothing tangible to offer as security as far as the project Itself was concerned, as they needed the money In order to finance the project. They were successful, suc-cessful, however, in getting help with the result that the work is now under way. There is a possibility of Brlgham becoming one of the heavy water buyers in the new project, as it would enable the city to pipe a portion of its present supply in Box Elder creek from the springs in Mantua to the reservoirs for use in tho waterworks system and then replacing it with water from the reservoirs for irrigating irrigat-ing purposes. This matter will receive re-ceive the attention of city officials just as soon as the dams are completed. |