Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09

quests for power and it is no longer a question a to how he may
sell the power he has developed, but rather a question a s to whom
he wishes to favor with this power, which may also be used In light
ing neighboring cities.
What the Boysen dam and water power plant mean tc that
section of Wyoming can only be imagined, but the visitor to Sht oni
and the surrounding district is soon convinced that the resi- ns
of that district are placing the greatest reliance on his
wonderful work and look upon Asmus 9oysen as the man who VIII
change the map of Central Wyoming and bring wealth and pro ver-
ity to those who have staked their fortunes as pioneers in the ew
country. When mines are working, towns lighted by electr lN.
prosperous farmers are raising bounteouh crops under the irrist ION
bitches pumped full of water by the power plant. prosperity ill
reign supreme and to Asmus Boysen well deserved credit VIII be
given. .... I.tnI
The work of building the dam was a giant undertaking outside
of the engineering problems, for all the heavy machinery had to be
hauled half way across the continent on the railroad and then
freighted with four and sixmule teams over rocky roads from iSho-
shoni to the dam, fourteen miles away. For two years a stream of
these freight teams has been hauling machinery and lumber and
cement and provisions and coal, a team making the trip out one day
and back the next. A large part of the journey was made along the
low lands of the river, but this road will be flooded when the dam
blocks the water in a week or Sc and the Big Horn Power company
has been compelled to blast a road higher up along the side OF the
mountain, above the water of the lake.
The idea of pumping water is not entirely new, but has proven
itself immensely successful in other places. A large area near Carr,
Colo, above the ditch systems, has been benefited by the extension
of the power companys wires. The scheme has also proven a sue
cess at Windsor, as the following press dispatch of a recent date win
show:
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is now merely a station on the Union Pacific road and above all irrt-
district is to sink a number of wells, install an electric pumping
supply is ample. The success Of a pumping plant near Windsor has
water from a well at the rate Of zoo gallons a minute, and tn" Is
being used on 100 acres. ,.-.F
The system which could be used near the Boysen dam is much
more simple than the Colorado scheme, as all that is necessary is to
pump the water from the rivers onto the higher ground into some
reservoir which might easily be provided. There is quite a slope in
the land from Shoshoni to Casper and there r nearly a million
acres of land along the Northwestern ioad which might be irrigated
by the use of the power plant at the Boysen dam.
With this immense reclamation project in view the dam might
easily be enlarged by placing units along the side of the river and
thus in time it is not out OF the range of possibilities to secure
100000 horse power during the food seasons. The gap at the
entrance to the Big Horn gorge is 800 feet high, with mountains Of
solid rock on each side. so that it is only a matter of how far the
company would want to back up the water and how high it would
want to build the dam. The supply of water is eternal and the
forces that have been going to waste for ages will now be turned to
mans uses through mans enterprise. .,I,.t