The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-06-30

where they camped for ten days at
such inconvenience that they showed
some irritation upon their return, but
whether irritated at the bad camping
or the continued serenity of things
in the village is not quite clear.
Somebody called meeting one
afternoon ito consider the high wa
ter" but as the word was passed
along many doubters asked If the high
water itself would be present at the
meeting, and not being assured as TO
this, they neglected to go down to
the hall to treat with an enemy that
was acknowledged to be on the run,
and that had no ambassadors who
would admit their sympathy or close
relation to it or spar for it's success.
The wide-awake editor of the
Mackay Miner-always ready to start
established telephone
on the dam and placed Waterman
by it of whom he could inquire from
his office, saying, Waterman, what
of the DAM" and perchance hear the
echo of the auctioneers cry when bus
mess was shattered, saying, Going,
going, gone-without bid" But
the waters Numbered "Nevermore. Z"
There is murmuring in certain
quarters because the present admin
istration has agreed to allow construc-
ton work to proceed with only slight
modification in the original specifica-
lions, the governor concurring, for
which some of his erstwhile support
ers are criticising him from Dan to
Beersheba. But the work will go
on until it is up to the 100 foot level
with spillways at both ends of the
dam, AS to how much water it will
store depends upon who is telling it,
as one class of philosophers contend
that the reservoir will not hold water
at all, either at the sides or the bot
tom or at the dam, and another class
as stoutly maintain that it will hold
everything until it overtops thedam,
wherepuon the lake eight miles long
will move down the valley en- masse.
Some there are who say the dam will
saturate and leak like sieve and
slack down under pressure of the
water, while others contend that the
weight of million tons
in the dam will constitute resistance
in plentitude, and after allowing for
the vast amount of lime and cement
in the gravel they are using. and the
tendency of this to act as a binder
and harden the mass wherever 1t gets
wet, they content themselves with let
ting others do all the W frying.
1t is expected that active construc.
ton work will be resumed about the
first of August, and the steam shovels
will again crash into the gravel banks
that have stood perpendicular for =
year just the way the last shovelful
left them. One new feature of the
work will be the extension of rail
road mile and quarter up the lake
to tap million tcus of clay lying OIL
the mountain side, and this will be
used freely to puddle and fill the
voids in the gravel. The upper toe
of the dam is to be extended another
SO feet, thus making it $50 feet in
width at the bottom, and making the
slope three to one on the upper side
instead of two and half to one.
The steel and cement tube that
lines the tunnel is to be extended 100
feet out into the lake and controlling
works put in, so the water can be
shut off at the upper end as well as at
the lower, and it will also remove
the possibility of Slides from the
choking the tunnel. A steel
tower 100 feet high will be built at
the upper end of the tunnel from
which to control the flow in the tun-