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Show II STOPS ME TO HEAVY FLOW OF WATER The underground flow of vratcr on the site of the Globe Milling & Grain , company's proposed elevator and mill ! In "West Ogden "has proved so difficult to control that operations hae I ceased on the gigantic structure pend-i pend-i ing a decision from the company's engineers en-gineers as to the advisability of trying try-ing to cope with the water or moving 1 to another place. Only in the ovont i that nothing suitable can bo located will the company consider moving from the city, It was announced this morning. If an acceptable location I can be found in another district, it Is J probable that the work will be started , there. Meanwhile the engineers arc testing the pre?cnt site with a view to determining just how much the ground in the vicinity is affected by the underground flood. When the excavation work was first started two months ago at tho West Ogden site, the foundation trenches had been dug barely six feet when water was encountered. At first it I was thought to bo only a small spring or drain but further excavating tap-i tap-i ped a larger quantity of water and the 1 engineers finally realized that a serious ser-ious problem lay before them. Pumps ; were installed to clear the trenches and excavating had to be done with a scrapor and steam hoisting engine, tne mud was so. thick. The main trench was dug many feet below the level originally planned and still no hard ground was found. Finally operations ceased and chief engineers from fche company's headquarters on the Pacific Paci-fic coast were summoned. They made a thorough inspection of the ground but could recommend nothing to successfully suc-cessfully handle the trouble. Operations Opera-tions were then suspended while it was decided whether to dig deeper for solid ground or to try another site. A test has been made of this ground to a depith of fifty feet and no material mater-ial difference has been found in the formation. This would lead to the de cislon that the foundation trenches would have to be dug to too great a depth to find a suitable base. The site chosen at West Ogden is very suitable because of its proximity to the spur track and general favor-ableness favor-ableness of location. The Globe Milling Mill-ing & Grain company Is reluctant to move because of this fact. The turning out of forms and braces for the concrete work, which was occupying oc-cupying the attention of a force of carpenters car-penters and the portable sawmill on the grounds have been stopped, as has all other outside work on the project, pro-ject, pending the decision concerning the advisability of proceeding The big elevator and mill was to have cost approximately $750,000 and would have been (he largest of the Globe Milling & Grain company's string of fie similar plants in the west. The first unit of it. consisting of tho elevator and workhouses, was to have been completed by the first of 1918 but the unexpected developments in construction work have shattered there plans. The specifications called for twenty elevator tanks with a capacity ca-pacity of 600,000 bushels of grain. This would have been by far the greatest great-est elevator in the intermountaln country and one of the biggest in the United States. The mill was specified for a capacity of 2500 barrels of flour daily. |