| Show WORK BEGINS ON BIG GAP PROJECT pumping water from little salt lake in order to wash the channel through east end of parowan carowan gap I 1 at last some semblance of commencement men cement of work on the gap reservoir project is now in evidence and a force of men are busy pumping water from the little salt lake and running it through the gap in order to wash a channel that will 1 eventually drain the lake without pumping the idea is to drain all the salt awater water after which a cam aam will be I 1 built at the west end of the gap which will hold back the fresh water that comes from numerous I 1 springs around and in the lake I 1 the promoters intend to keep on with the work now that a start ahas has been made hopes are held out that the lake 1 vill be drained and the dam built within the next year it is a bi big project and when completed will mean the conserving of I 1 enough water to irrigate three or four thousand acres of very fertile land below the gap and north of rush lake the gentlemen directly responsible for the move are representative wilford day and S A halterman with whom there are associated some prominent men of this locality and salt lake city |
