Show mo moon ea edw lake IN new aws fr acx w hohens qu moon lake reservoir gigantic eastern utah reclamation project located 42 miles northwest of roosevelt which will furnish famish adequate water supply to irritate in iwate ate acres of land in uintah basin inasmuch as word was received from the denver office that the crushed gravel would not meet specifications the processing of same was discontinued near the first of last week it was not originally planned to crush the gravel as tests made tor for natural gravel showed it to be satisfactory however tho the contractor desired to use all material malarial at the pit without having waste so lie he installed the crusher mr connelly contractor arrived from san francisco sunday evening and will work out a solution with w ith mr air construction engineer for the reclamation as to 0 what shall be done about getting the necessary gravel for the concrete it was decided that and connelly would leave leae lor for denver monday night the to attend to the detail of reaching an agreement tor for the special work order covering the aut holty for the construction st ol of the spillway as now designed it is supposed that they will also settle the gravel matter the compaction tests have not been made yet but the contractor lias eizu opened up a pit to get the earth and the present plan is to commence the work tuesday the 2 9 th the concrete forms were ln installed for the first pouring of concrete in the structure but a slide in occurred fihe F 1 day which crushed t the forms on one side so in the writers opinion it Is doubtful if the structure will be installed this fall due to the lateness of the season and the present uncertainty of what will be done about the gravel the steel has arrived for the gate chamber and work or oc completing the excavation and installation stal lation of the steel will begin today today monday on this feature the gate chamber Is in the tunnel and is located about midway from each end an a distance ot of foot feet from the intake end early monday morning the contractor lacked six plates of having completed the lining ol 01 the outlet tunnel from the entrance portal to the gate chamber a distance of feet but it will not be later than midnight when the work will be finished with this done all the tunnel lining will be done with tho the exception of feet I 1 in n the couth end making a total distance to date ot of feet at the present rate ot of ins installation ion or of the plates it should require approximately two weeks to finish fillish finall all the work but the broken up limestone on oil the south end will slow things up considerably and it may require five or six weeks the lowest temperature recorded to date la Is 5 degrees above zero but plenty alenty of sheep skins seem to bo be on the job |