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Show Concrete company dolDg the concrete work Engineer Dot-taph, has under him four corps of engineers In the Held BSGTWATERWAY Eight Concrete Mixers Are Supplying Material for7 the Improvements on the Davis and Weber Counties Canal Engineer Bostaph Has Large Corps of Surveyors in the Field. Between four and five hundred men are now employed on the construction ' work of the Davis anl Weber counties coun-ties canal and the bis ditch is being concreted at a rate of several hundred hund-red feet per day. The concreted canal when completed, complet-ed, will In' nine nnd three-fnii th ' miles In length and at the present time five miles 01 the waterway has j been put In shape for the placing of i the cement. One and three-fourths miles of the ditch is entirely f nislied and the cement is being laid at a rate of Si'O feet per day. City Engineer j W. N. Bristnph, who is In charge of the g'gantic task, stated this morning that the work could not tie completed before the workers arc cauclii by the cold weather but that he experts. with ordinary conditions, in th- late i sprint; the canal will be in readiness for irrigation purposes when it becomes be-comes time to Irrigate In some respects the Improving of the canal is offering problems in en- ' gineering that have not hitherto been line of the canal will be changed and made from 16 to 20 feet In width. This is work which will probably not be done until spring. When completed, the canal will he -2 feet wide at the bottom and 31 feet nt the top. It will have a capacity capac-ity of carrying 72'i cubic feet of water per second, enough to Irrigate i:",00: acres of land. It Is imw estimated that the work will cost between $250 -00, t and j::oo,iino, which will amount to about $..50 per ltueal fool. A power plant, which Is to he erect-1 c,I near Tllvordale will manufacture j from tho water's fall electricity equal to d.OOo horsepower nd much of this energy has already been contracted This power will bring to tho sfor!.-holderfi sfor!.-holderfi of tho cnual company 20,0o annually. The men in charge of the work are .1. Q. Wood, general manager. M. M Whiteside. general superlntendi-nl w'th William Dovle and tho Gillis sohed At one point In its course the engineers are virtually holding hack a mountain with Fteel bands ami cement. Thousands of tons of earth and rock are being kept from burying the canal only by the skillful art of tho engineers in charge. The workmen have really Mocked an avalanche that would have hidden hundreds of feet of tho canal from sight. Six concrete mixem. each with a capacity ca-pacity of supplying material for ion lineal feet of the ditch per dav are . at work and two more will be started tomorrow. The entire length of the canal will be ready for the concrete Workers by the first of the month and the concrete con-crete will ho all In place by November Novem-ber 2'. n work, however, has yet been done in the canyon. The headgote will be wider and the |