East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-14
C0E DAM WORK
PROGRESSING FAST
ESOHBAUGH, BRUCE & co.
OPEN UP THEIR CAMP
Low Stage of River Enables Work
TO BE Pushed on Big Furnish Coe
Dam-Contractors on Scene-Dis-
charge Tunnel Is Completed.
Especial correspondence }

Especial Correspondence
Stanfield, ore, June 12.-The Una
tllla river having gotten to a stage
low enough that work can be begun
on the dam for the Furnish-Coe pro-
ject by the contractors things are
beginning to hum at the siding at
at Coe, where the surplus waters of
the project will be stored, and out of
which after this season continuous
flow of water at low stage periods Of
the river may be turned into the Fur
nish ditch, maintaining annual wa
ter in the place OF flood water for
the project.
Mr. Marshall, superintendent of the
Furnish Ditch company, has complet-
ed the discharge tunnel under the
dam, dug down into the solid rock,
with a concrete lining and mass re
concrete room, and this is already
covered over its entire depth with
earth and the whole enterprise has
now been turned over to Messrs. Es-
baugh. Bruce & Co., the big Seattle
contractors, for the completion Of
their part OF the work.
This firm last week opened its
camp and started in with gang of
thirty men, getting ready to build the
trestle work on the upper and lower
sides of the concrete core which
crosses the river some feet above the
surface of the ground at this time.
From this trestle the earth will be
dumped below, making the face and
nf ~,
concrete core going through the mid
die of the dam
There will be 175,000 yards of
earth to move. This earth will come
out of the splllway or artificial river
bed built 40 feet higher than the
present river bed and through which
| the water will flow when the reser-
voir has been filled to within ten feet
of the top of the dam, thus prevent
ing any water from running over the
dam. The water will, at low stages
Of the river, run through the dis
charge tunnel under the dam and at
high stages will run over the, spill
way. The spillway will be lined with
solid concrete wall. The rock taken
| from the spillway will be used to COW
| er the earthwork Of the dam to a
! depth of six feet.
Eschbaugh, Bruce & Co, will han
die this earth with steam shovels, re-
moving 500 yards of earth during the
| day time and 1000 yards at night and
have a contract to complete the dam,
under a s2500O bond within ninety
days after the work is under way.
This firm Is now mixing concrete
and getting ready for continuing the
construction of the core of the dam
while installing the machinery, tracks,
steam shovels and engines for haul
ing earth.
This reservoir, when completed, will
have one of the safest and best dam
constructions in the whole west II
will be built precisely upon the plans
OF the government dam on the ad-
joining project, except that in the Coe
dam the concrete core will not stop
at the regular surface Of the ground
level, but will go clear through the
dam to its top, and also has the ad-
vantage over most dams, in that its
core is embedded in the solid rock at
both sides and bottom
Other Notes.
The 21st Columbia Land company
special car arrived today with fifty
people. They visited the work pro-
crossing at Coe on the Coe reservoir
and expressed their praise regarding
the dispatch with which the work Is
being put forward. -
Contract was let this afternoon fol-
the horticulturst's house on DR. Goes
ranch in Section II Mr. George An
derson, the contractor. will begin wori
there tomorrow morning.
The well which was put down b!
Mr.. Towers well drilling outfit on Mr.
; J. r. Faucets place on Main street
is a great success. Soft water wa
= struck at 56 feet water coming tC
3 within 12 feet of the surface Of th'
s ground. Mr.. Faucet intends to pu
in a gasoline engine and supply SOM
Of the people nearest him.
Last night at a meeting of the
church members of Stanfield ant
| while organizing the church of Stan
field. Rev. DR.. r. I. Faucet was in
| structed to employ a missionary il
, India for the year following Mr.
, Fawcctt's return there, and none,
was raised at the meeting thee las
night to defray the salary or tn
{ church of Stanfeld missionary for on
a year.