Show I i MAN GIVES NATURE A TIMELY HAND If yon you haven't been to the new Wan Wanship hip Dam in the past week youve you've you 1 missed a thrill of hf beauty and a real surprise The dam is fill filling five times as fast last as the I experts figured and already is hi nearing the spillway The beautiful lake stretches south and east last almost to 1 its extremity at the highway and ami the grazing livestock is rapidly backing as the water advances In two places the tb Water r is is under the highway hi stretching slim I fingers fingers into the hills Two launching ramps are marked d motorboats playing where once orl the highway and are the homes and barns barn and fields of Rockport stood The ramps inci incidentally are simply simply- the spots Spot at which the old r highway enters the water j i 1 I 1 But the rapid filling of the dam dam expected to take two or three years and actually nearing completion in two or or cr 1 three months is of special interest and vital import importance to the thousands of persons who live between old Rockport y and the city ity of Ogden It i is almost a certainty that the Weber Valley would have ha experienced a disastrous flood had not the melting snows of the Upper Weber been held up p at at the dam and restrained from joining the roaring wat waters rs of Chalk Creek Lost Creek East Bast Canyon and a dozen smaller tributaries The insistent rains added to the danger I i. i Now the danger is past according to trained observers But give deal of thanks a great many people can a great to toman's mans man's engineering ingenuity in hi aiding Nature |