The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-02-14
PROSPERITY
RElGNS In CODY
THOUSANDS or DOLLARS BEING
SPENT IN RECLAMATION.
T%HEShOShONE PROJECT
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Dam and corbett Tunnel-eed Rock
Encountered in River-Much Con.
crete and Cement Work TO Be Done.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
With work on a big government re-
clamation project involving hundreds
OF thousands Of dollars being done in
country directly tributary. besides
numerous private projects for the bet
terment of city and county in which
men Of sound financial backing are in.
terested, the city Of Cody, Wyo., Is en-
barking on an era of prosperity and
enjoying q substantial growth that
will % make 1t one OF the largest
cities in Wyoming.
The completion Of the Shoshone pro-
iect Will furnish homes to thousands
Of new settlers. Smaller projects
which have in view the irrigation Of
smaller tracts of land have been COM
pleted and arrangements are being
made to COLOMBO them. Coal mines
in the immediate vicinity will soon be
In operation and the natural resources
OF the country are in the course of de-
velopment.
At De Mars Hot Springs a new hotel
has been erected and a new plunge
constructed. A sulphur manufactur-
ing plant employing a large force of
men is in operation there also.
Encounter Bed Rock.
Bed rock at a distance of 81 feet
below the channel of the river has
been encountered by workmen en-
ployed by the government on the re-
clamation project in northern Wyom-
ing in building the Shoshone dam, ac-
co-ding to H. N. Savage, supervising
engineer of the United States recla-
nation service. who recently returned
from the Shoshone country. Three
hundred men are employed on the
dam.
Mr.. Savage stated that he expected
that the masonry work On the big dam
would begin in a couple Of weeks.
Fifteen four-horse teams are engaged
at present in hauling supplies to the
dam. and two cars Of Portland cement
are being received from the factory at
Chicago every week.
The material for the outlet gates, OF
which there are three. has begun to
arrive. The gates are 3hX7 feet In
dimensions, and work under a water
pressure Of 240 pounds. When com
pleted 1t is estimated that they will
cost in the neighborhood Of $685. 0
The lumber which will be used in
the forms for the cement and con
crete work is cut from national for.
ests. Free s permits have been is.
sued to Messrs. Wallop & Moncrieffe,
contractors on the northern part oi
the Shoshone river.
Government Planning Mil.
George H. Town has a sawmill
which will be used in cutting the wood
taken from the forests in the Pryor
mountains, and q government wood
working plant will be established a.
Ralston to furnish lumber for distribu'
ton work. The plant will be fitted
with planners. laws and up-to-date
Woodworking machinery.
A cement pipe plant will be estab
lished at Powell and be equipped with
machinery to make all sizes Of pipe
from So inches In diameter down to
smaller sizes, to be used in culverta
and turnouts on the canal. There will
be seven miles Of pipe used in the con
struction of the canal on this project
Government headquarters on the
project will be located at Powell. be
tween Ralston' and Garland. All Of
the engineering and clerical force viii
be located there as It is the most
central point on the project.
Many Big contraeta
Land under the project will be SOLD
for 345 an acre for the first units oper
to entry. Payment is to be made II
10 annual installments and no inter
est will be charged. In the end thu
land will cost In the neighborhood O
$50 an acre.
W. d. Lowell of Watson, Wyo., ha,
the contract for all reinforced con
crete work on the Garland canal
which will amount to about $4,000
Additional contracts for work on tht
same canal have been let for pint
structures and other concrete worl
amounting In all to about 5000, 000
More than 100 men and teams will b.
employed and there will be in us
two cement mixers and two canal dig
cling outfits employing about 40 teams
The canal will carry 1000 acre-feet o
water every "a hours and will irrigat'
about 100, 900 acres of land.
Nels Olson has a contract for $50
900 worth. OF work about completed
The Billings Construction compan;
has completed q contract for a divert
ing dam at the Corbett tunnel. TIL
tunnel Is three miles and a half Ion
and Is now completed.
Government Road.
A government road to the park cos'
ing $4,000 is also projected.
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