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Show ASSESSMENT WILL UK M APR TO 111 I I.I) FLOOD DAM The finance committee on the proposed pro-posed Hood control project, of which W. D. Candland Is Chairman, and L. P. Nelson secretary, met recently and took steps to Insure the imtuedi-at imtuedi-at building of the dam in Pleasart Creek canyon. Professor L. M. Windsor of Logan, Lo-gan, irrigation and hydraulic engineer engin-eer of the Agricultural Collage., has gone over tho situation with the local lo-cal committee and declared the pro. ject entirely feasible. A trap or dam will be built In the creek and turn the flood water north against the mountain, and, with a dyke, will urn the water back into the original channel after the rocks and tree have been deposited on the waste lands. A committtoe consisting of O ,H. Aldrich, S. M. Nellsen, L. P. Nelson ami Supt. Louis A. Petersen wore at Mantl last week' and secured a list of all tax payers and property own. ers In the city. The proposed project pro-ject will cost about Ave or six thousand thous-and dollars, and, as the city U already al-ready taxed to the limit, a special assessment of five mills on the dollar dol-lar will be levied on all tax payers to pay for the project. The assess-ment assess-ment may be paid either in labor or cash, and it is proposed to begin work on the project at once. |