The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-06-11
{ Mackay Miner. }

On Thursday of last week Corey
Brothers Construction company, who
have the contract or the construction
work on the big dam and reservoir
and the canal and lateral work for
the Big Lost River reclamation pro-
Ject which embraces the reclamation
or 100000 acres of land, began re-
! celying their equipment. On that day
two cars arrived, one of horses and
one OF concrete mixers, wagons and
other tools. On Monday four more
cars arrived and this shipment in
cluded four dinky engines and one
eighty ton Atlas steam shovel. This
equipment being shipped here from
Strathmore, Canada, where this we'll
known firm has just completed a
large contract on the extension of the
Canadian Pacific. There has been
shipped out of Strathmore during the
past week, ten car loads of horses
and ten more cars of equipment and
this consignment is expected to ar
rive here daily, twenty cars in all.
All the stock and equipment nm
loaded thus far by the contractors
Is in good repair and condition. The
stock unloaded was as nice bunch
OF horses as can be found anywhere.
No little speculation has been in
dulged In by the citizens as to how
the big steam shovel, which is noun
ted on a strong fiat car, Is to be
moved to the dam site, where this
and most of the other heavy machin-
cry is to be used. This equipment
IS to be taken to the end of the track,
above the stock yards, and then sec
tional tracks will be laid, the cars
run on them and other sections laid
In front, and so on, until the dam
site is reached
A member of the firm, from whom
We have obtained this information.
also informs us that another lot Of
equipment and material is to be ship
ped to Mackay this month from Cali
fornia. where they are just complet-
ing contract with the Western Pa
cific, some fifteen or twenty cars.
equipment to be brought into Mack
ay with what has already arrived, up
to close to fifty cars and includes 8
powerful steam shovels.
200 Men in Thirty Days
The contractors will have two
hundred men at work at the dam in |
side OF thirty days, not counting the |
number that will be employed by the
sub-contractors and this force will be
increased from day to day, gradual
", as the work progresses, until the
force employed at the dam alone will
aggregate in the neighborhood of 500
men. Added to this will be the /
men employed by the sub-contractors
which will run the total up to about
800 men on the entire project, with
perhaps two hundred teams and I
about all the machinery that can be
Dc used on the big project to advan-
age.
In addition to the equipment
enumerated above, car loaded with
steam engine and well drilling ma
'hinery arrived yesterday, which is
o be used at the dam site in pros
'ecting work.
Men are arriving on every train
md are being employed and the
owns on the river are beginning to
how much activity in a business
way. With this army of men, teams.
nd machinery active on Lost river
his year, the local business condi-
ions, which have been fair even
through the hard times, will be l.
realty augmented.
The Corey Brothers Construction
are making sub-contracts on
ortions of the work, a detailed ac- .
cunt of which will be found on the
ast column of this issue.
The Corey Brothers Construction
ompany general Offices are located {
t Ogden, Utah, but they will main
hin three Offices in this vicinity, one 9
the jenkins bank in Mackay, one !
the reservoir site and one at !
[oore, and commissaries will be es- !
ablished at every important camp on
le line of work.
A contract was entered into by the
ate land board and the Big Lost a
liver Irrigation company yesterday /,
" the reclamation Of 100, 900 acres a
land in Bingham, Fremont, and &