The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-10-23
CEMENT WORK
Being RUSHED
Weber-Davis County Canal Be-
ing Lined at the Rate Of
300 Feet Per Day.
Will Greatly Increase the Vol
ume Of Water in the
Canal.

The work of cementinc the Weber
Davis irrigation canal Is progressing
very rapidly and thcre arc employed
on the job at present four working
outfits, comprising two hundred teams
and twice that number of men. The
big ditch is being lined with concrete
al the rate of eight hundred llneal
feet per day.
When II is known that the canal is
twenty-five feet I'm width at the bot
tom and thirty-four feet wide at the
top 1t viii bc seen that this work is
being carried on quite rapidly. The
work Is in charge Of City Engineer
Boslaph. who has an efficient corps
Of inspectors at the several points Of
operation.
Nine and One-haIf Miles Long.
The canal Is nine and one-half miles
In length and II is claimed that 30
600 cubic yards of cement viii be re-
quired TO concrete the Interior surface
of the ditch.
Before tho present improvement
work was started the capacity of the
canal was two hundred cubic feet Of
water per second and this YVES suf-
Gcient To- irrigate 1900 acres OF land.
When the present concrete work Is
completed the big ditch will carry
725 cubic feet or wntor per second,
or more than three times It's original
carrying capacity. This will be q
supply sufficient to irricate 25.O0O
acres of land in addition to furnish
inc a great amount Of water for the
production OF electrical current
Originally much Of the water turn
ed into the canal seeped through the
porus rock with which the big ditch
was lined and found It's way back In
10 tho Weber river. BY the concret-
ing process all scopage will be elm
mated
Increased Volume.
or the increased volume Of water
which Will bc carried 425 feet VIII be
used for irritation purposes and the
remaining 500 feet VIII be devoted to
the production OF electrical energy al
the company power station Tuls
huge volume OF water viii make 4
sheer drop OF 2l0 feet, aftordlng ener-
gy sufficient 10 produce 5000 horse
power
After passing through the turbines
the water returns In the river and ls
lost 10 the Wcber-Dayif Counties r.
rl-atlon company bur further on IS
taken out Of the river by tine farmers
who have Weber river water riEhte.
II is merely matter Of the Weber
Davis company borrowing the water
and returning r. 10 the river after cx-
tr1ctiue IT'S graTtory energy.
Electrical Power Contracted For.
Nearly all of tho electrical power !
TO be produced by the company plant |
has already been contracted for
Simon Bambcrrer OF the Salt Lake Il |
Ogden Railway company. has con-
tr0ctcd Tor continuous current OF !
1000 horsepower for which he will !
pay 100000 annually a number Of |
local mills aud shops are ulso making |
preparations 10 use power produced |
az the same plant
Tho gross income from the clcctrl |
cal power alone will be Sl5OO0O an.
nu1lly while the Income from lrriga- |
ton rights viii bring tho total earn |
Ing power OF the canal mp TO $780,
600 each wear From the best cal |
culotions this viii mean a net earn
iu- OF about S2S0O50
Past History.
To back this great Improvement the |
company was capitalized at $500 GOO |
and when the work is comolctcd tho |
assets OF tho company Will have a /
physical value of two and a half null. |
Hon dollars II is estimated that tho |
entire cost Of the present improve !
ment VIII be 100000
Shares originally sold AZ $50 and |
dropped from this par value as low a.
$3.50 per share II was twelve years
AGO that The stock OF the compauy
reached rs minimum value. Since |
that time the shares have been stead.
ily increasing In value until two years
aro they sold for $3.50 Today the
shares arc worth $50 and 10 is be.
Iicycd thar they viii continue ncrcas-
ING I'm value until the $500 mark IS
reached. or elk times their original
par value