Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-04-21
BIG LAKE FORMS
BEHIND NEW DAM
At HEBRON
Work on Great Reservoir Near
Maxwell Will Be Finished
in Ten Days; $50 Men and
$50 Horses on the Job.

Maxwell. ~ a., April ti.-onc 81
the most Interesting sights In this
section H. tho work ON the Hebron
dam. eighteen miles north Of town.
This big storage reservoir Of the Max
well Irrigated Land company h nearly
finished. aud within Il week or ten
days the camps viii be- broken up.
and the hundreds OF men nov ON the
Job viii be- released The Maxwell
"Mail" thus describes the work
Since the beginning 81 The WORK last
year. Contractor " IL Winburn has
kept things moving like clock work.
seeing that everything was done ace
curding GO specifications. lie has
made hia homie on the ioh fnr many
months. and nothing has escaped his
notice.
The work at the dam IL divided By
several sub contractors. and each sub
contractor has his own Gang. Gilbert
rruthCfs have tho largest sub con-
tract and their camp facing the dam,
Is model construction camp
Gilbert brothers have 25e men and
100 horses in camp. aud the housing
and feeding ot this force calls for
executive ability of high order.
Things are done with The regularity
and precision Of "a military camp:
every man has a. certain part oi the
work assigned him. and thare are no
conflicts Al night when the teams
come In they ara turned over 90 the
barn men. who see 10 their feeding.
Another man takes charge uf the
wagons and gets them ready for the
next days work Al The beginning OF
each day tho wagons and teams are
in as good condition as on the hrst
day of the Job
Gilbert Brothers have a fine bunch
90 horses They have fully x2G.0NO
invested in horses wagons and har-
ness The horses are Kept iu iinu tent
strhlos each 30XGO feet sud each tent
is IN charge of a man who feeds aud
cares for the stock
The water side OF the dam IL COW
eyed with heavy rock 20 the depth OF
u foot. Twcnty-siX thousand square
yards Of the dam Is SO covered. pro-
tccting the carthworN from the wash
OF the waves.
At tho east end OF the dam IL tho
outlet tower and ditch. The tower -
concrete. about thirty feet high and
fifteen feet square From the tower
tho water IL. delivered To the ditch
through "a concrete conduit nfteen feet
square and i2i feet long The con-
duit h divided into three cOmpart-
merits. each under separate control
from the tower, The ditch is seven
teen miles long from int uutn 10
where u empties into Lake H.
The construction has been la charge
of r. n. Dow. engineer. rtproEcnting
the land company Mr.. Dow has Oeen
aOly assisted by Engineer Geo Finley
and his crew. Some idea OF the
amount of work the surveyors have to
du can bee gathered from the fact that
In the progress Of the WORK no less
taun seventy five thousand level
shots" have been made
Quite a lot OF water has collected
above the dam. ~ got so high that IL
was IN the way 80 AN outlet WAS made
to let 10 escape. This outlet viii be
closed In few days, aud the big lake
win begin 60 form.
There ARE many fish ia the lake
that Is forming and there will be fine
sport there little later. one can
stand on the hank and see the fish.
The other dag ~ j Ford. one of the
trumsters To- Gubert's camp. saw a
trout near the edge of the lake and
plunged lea after H., capturing H.
Knowing the skcptlcism that greets
the avcrage fish story Mr.. Ford took
the fish 90 camp where he kept a.
alive Ia tub 90 water q living proof
OF his skill as a fisherman. The hsh
was Tiiie more than eight inches
long.
Tonipht--last time Flood and Tor
uado picture crystal.