Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-10
GREAT DRAINAGE
 PLAN UNDER WAY Movement Started to Re claim 350,OOO Acres of
 Yazoo Delta Land. DAM THE COLDWATER for Project Contemplate Storing Ten Billion Cubic Feet of
 Water in Immense Reservoir.
 Cost Will Be $3.G7O,OOO.
DAM THE COLDWATER

Memphis, Tenn, June 9.-Plans Engineering company of Memphis Tenn, for drainage district to re- claim 350,000 acres of Yazoo delta land in the Yazoo-Coldwater drainage district. The lands in question lie in Tunica, Quitman, DeSoto, Tate and Panola counties in Northwest Missis- sippi. The north end of the district is located about thirteen miles south of Memphis, from which point the district extends south about fifty miles. The plans for reclamation of the territory in question provide for the control of the Coldwater' river, which drains about 1,O3O square miles of hill land in North Mississippi, and system of drainage channels about one mile apart throughout the flat lands.
 Build Big River. '
 The control of the Coldwater river consists of a reservoir that will store ten billion cubic feet of water. The dam will be nearly mile long, about 40 feet high, and will be constructed of selected and puddled earth, with a twenty-foot crown and four to one side slopes on both sides. Two perma- nent concrete openings, each eight feet square, located through the hill at the south end of the dam, will allow the low flow of the river to pass by the dam. The spillway will be of con- crete, 1000 feet long, with a crest twelve feet below the crest of the dam, and will hay ca capacity of a hundred hydraulic dredge, by steam shovels and cars, or by sluicing. In any event the body of the dam will be of puddled clay. The dam will contain about 1,576,000 cubic yards of earth, and 25,500 cubic yards of earth, and 25,5OO cubic yards of concrete. About 10000 feet (board measure) of sheet piling, and 25,00O lineal feet of round piling will be required in the foundation of the tunnels and spill way.
 The Coldwatar river will be clear ed of al obstructions from the dam to a point six miles below the boundary of the district. Auxiliary channels will be dredged to carry a portion of the water within the district. where the river channel is not adequat.e II is proposed to clear 15O miles of eX- isting channels of trees, drift, etc., and to construct about 450 miles Of new channels, the largest of which will fe so feet wide at the base and 15 feet deep, and the smallest II feet wide at the base and feet dep.
 Cost to Be $3.670,00O.
 It is estimated that twenty million cubic yards of earth will be excavat- ed. and it is contemplated that at least twenty-five dredges will be re- quired to do the work. The total esti- mated cost of the improvement is s3670. .00O.
 The board of commissioners have accepted the plans and filed them with the chancery court clerk at Tunica. Mississippi They will pro- ceed to file the assessment roll with the court in +he near future. If, the court proceedings move smoothly tn, bonds will be on the market in about three months. and the contracts for construction work will be let al about the same time
 pr. H.. w. Crenshaw. Crenshaw Mississippi, F. w. Canon, Senatobia Mississippi and R. T. Lamb, Wallas Mississippi. are the commissioners and the Morgan Engineering com pany Memphis. Tennessee are Engi neers for the district.