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Show CEBIT WORK OH B!fl CANAL Something like two hundred men and teams are busily enraged c,n-cretlug c,n-cretlug the large Davis and Weber counties canal leading from the.Vi"-cr the.Vi"-cr river to the farm lands on the Bench ouUi ol Ogden. About SOU lineal lin-eal feet or cement is being placed each day. When It is known that the canal is twenty-two feet In width at the bottom bot-tom ami thirty-four feet wide at the top It will Ik? seen that this work Is being carried on quite rapidly. The work Is in charge of City Engineer Dosiaph. who has an efficient corps of inspectors at the several point3 of operation. Nine and One-half Miles Long. The canal Is nine and one-half miles in length and U Is claimed that 20.-000 20.-000 cubic vards of cement will be required re-quired to concrete the interior aurrace of Hie ditch. Before the present improvement work was started the capacity of the canal was two hundred cubic, feet of water per second and this was sufficient, suf-ficient, to irritate 12.000 acres of land. When the present concrete work 1 completed the big ditch will carry 723 cubic feet of water per second, or more than three times its original carrying capacity. This will be a supply sufficient to Irrigate 25.0n0 acres of land In addition to furnishing furnish-ing a great amount of water for tho product len of electrical current. Originally much of the water turned turn-ed Into the canal seeped through the poms rock with which the big ditch was lined and found Its way back Into In-to the Weber liver. By the concreting concret-ing process all seepage will be eliminated. Increased Volume. Of the increased volume of water which will be carried 425 feet will be used for Irrigation purposes and the remaining 300 feet will be devoted to tho production of electrical energy at the company power station This huge volume of water will make a sheer drop of 210 Teet, affording energy ener-gy sufficient to produce 5,000 horsepower. horse-power. After passing through the turbines the water returns to the river and 3 lost to the V.'eber-Davls Counties Irrigation Ir-rigation company, hut further on la taken out or the river by the farmers who have Weber river water right". It Is merely a matter of the W eber-Davis eber-Davis company borrowing the water and returning It to the river after extracting ex-tracting its jrravitory energy. Electrical Power Contracted For. Nearly all of the electrical power to be produced by the company plant has already been contracted for Simon Bamberger of the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway company, has con (ractcd for a contl')uou3 current ol 2.000 horsepower for which he will pay CO.oon annually. A number ol local mills and shops are also makln? preparations to use power produced at the same plant The gross Income from the eleetrl cal power alone will be $150,000 nn-nuolly. nn-nuolly. while the income from Irrlga tlon rights will bring I he total earning earn-ing power of tno canal up to 310, 000 each year. From the best cal eolations this will mean a net earn ing of about .$20.0."0. Past History. To back this great Improvement tlu company was capitalized at $"i00.00f and when the work Is conmleted the assets of the company will have a physical value of two and a half mil lion dollars. It Is estimated that th; entire cost of the present improve ment will be $700,000. Shares originally sold at $50 am dropped rrom this p-.ir value as low a $12 50 per share. It was twelve year' ago that the stock or the Cdirani reached its minimum value. Since that time Hie shares have been stead ily increasing in value until two years ago they sold for $150. Today the shares are worth $1M and It is be lieyed that they will continue increasing increas-ing in value until the $"0 mark I? reached, or si times their origina par value. |