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Show TRYING TO CONTROL THE LAKE. A local engineer who has noted the action of rho waves on the railroad embankment which forms the western west-ern approach to the trestle on the Ogden-Lucln cut-off, has advanced the theory that to stop tho tearing down of the embankment It will be necessary neces-sary to build a breakwater at a distance dis-tance of 100 to 200 feet from the road, and l his plan, It would seem, is about to be adopted by the Southern Pacific. Cut the Ogden man says' a solid breakwater of piling, timbered to completely check the waves on the lake in period of storm, would prove unequal to the 'strain. He maintains that the piling should be driven a foot apart and should not be boarded up. All that Is necessary Is an ob-structlon ob-structlon to break the wave motion, with a large body of dead water between be-tween the point where the waves strike the breakwater arid the embankment, em-bankment, this inactive water to act as a cushion against the volume of water carried by the waves. He has observed how piling, as much as fifteen fif-teen feet apart, has a calming effect on the surface of the water and he Is convinced that piles placed at a distance of a foot apart would effectively effec-tively break up that mighty force of the heavy lake 'water which is now capable of tearing away rocks of a ton or more which are used in rip-rapping. The engineers have quite a problem before them, as the suggestion of the local engineor gives some Idea of what must be done before the lake, when churned by a storm, can be subdued sub-dued by the forces commanded by man. |