The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-07-08
Building the Great Dam
Large Force of Men Arrive Sunday. Work Day
and Night to Complete the
Project

Now that the water is getting low
er in the Big Wood river, the worl
on the big dam for the Idaho Irriga
tion project is being revived and il
a short tine there will be hundreds O.
men and a large number of extra
teams put to work and the dam will
be pushed to completion as rapidly
as possible. The first addition to the
force of men employed on the works
arrived in this city Sunday, when
about fifty men arrived from Salt
Lake City and were taken out to the
works Sunday afternoon in wagons,
loaded to their full capacity with the
men,
For the past two months load af-
ter load of cars, dump wagons, heavy
machinery of all kinds and every
thing needed with which to push the
work has been hauled to the works,
the heavy freight wagons, with from
four to eight horses to the wagon,
making daily trips to this city, car
load after car load of coal and pro-
visions have been freighted to the
works and when the water is low
enough to begin work on the great
dam, there will be no delay as every
thing for it's completion will by that
time be on the grounds
The J. G. White Construction Com
pany, who have charge of the work
is the largest construction company
in the world, and have everything in
the way of machinery, that is needed
for dam building besides experience
ed men, who thoroughly understand
their business in charge of every de-
partment of the work, and when once
activity is renewed there will be no |
let up until the work is completed |
for the sooner they get the job COM
pleted the sooner they will be ready |
to begin on some other gigantic un-
dertaking, as they are in demand at
all times, and are now building an
enormous dam and tunnel on the
Snake river, below Huntington, Ore
gon, for the Idaho-Oregon Light and
Power Company
Last week a large dynamo was
taken out to the works from this
city, which will be used for both
power and lighting purposes and a
double force of men will be put to
work, and run both night and day;
the large dynamo turning the night
into day and enabling the men to go
on with the work at night as we'll as
in day light, and the amount of work l
that will be turned out, by working /
twenty-four hours a day, will be en- .
ormous.
The Idaho Irrigation Company are
under contract to furnish water on .
he Dietrich tract next spring and q
With the facilities they now have for v
on their work, there is no y
loubt but what they will have plenty :,
If water delivered on the tract to ir-
igate all the lands sold ahead of b
ime, as they are as anxious to get II
he water on the tract as the buyer
5, which when once put under culti- II
alton, will enable others to see how
he land will produce, and enable the =,
company to dispose of what land re- q,
lains unsold. to
The dam when completed will form M
n immense reservoir, that will hold
lore than enough water to irrigate d
be entire tract for which it is in
ended and prospective settlers will m
eed to give themselves no worry on re
lat score, as they could see for them
lives by visiting the works on Wood Ri
ver "a
g.. - tn
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rthest, it is expected that the work
i'll be under full headway with a On