The daily sentinel., 1914-04-29
HIGH LINZ: ONE
F|FTHDONEON
FIRST u: APRIL
Text Of Engineer Miners Formal
Report on Construction For
Last March.

The high line canal was more than
one-fifth completed on April /, ac-
cording to the formal report sent to
the department by Project Engineer
Miner and re5published in the cur
rent issue of the Reclamation Rec
ord. 4J rrlu urr
The report IN fun follows and re-
lates to the month of March:
Colorado, Grand Valley Project
Cos per cent completely The
weather throughout March was fair
and favorable for construction work.
At the Grand River dam | ,039 cubic
yards of concrete were placed dur
ing the month, completing the floor
OF the sluiceway, the regulator gate
wall, the floor OF the intake basin,
and the foundations for the perma-
nent power house. Two thousand
cubic yards Of gravel and cobbles
We're excayated from the sluiceway
and the foundation for the riprap
protection for the banks. Ninety
square yards Of lS-inch riprap We're
placed on the right bank OF the tail
race from the sluiceway. The caps
and stringers We're placed on the
temporary pile bridge across the riv-
er, the stiff leg derrick moved across
the river and erected preparatory to
the stripping OF the quarry sit. The
dead men anGhorages and the foun-
dations of the towers for the cable
way were completed and messen-
ger line stretched between the dead
men, completing the work prepara-
tory to the erection of the galloway
towers. About $500 cubic yards of
material We're placed by team and
scraper in widening the bank of the
Rio Grande Junction railway in the
vicinity OF the dam, and camp of
80 men established at the dam by the
railroad company This force will
handle the material to be hauled in
by cars to complete the raise in grade
of this track.
At tunnel No. 1. three shifts per
day We're worked placing the concrete
lining from the lst until the 25th,
and since that date one shift has
been used cleaning up the tunnel,
taking down the cleaning up forms,
and moving forms and traveller to
tunnel No. @ Twenty-seven hun
dred and thirteen cubic yards of CON
crete were placed in the tunnel dur
ing the month, completing the lining
and making a total of S,4l0 cubic
yards to date. One hundred seventy
cubic yards of concrete We're placed
in the lower portal OF tunnel No. IL
The excavations between tunnel No
and Jerry creek siphon was COM
pleted and work initiated on placing
steel and forms for the concrete lin
ing for this section. At Ashury
creek siphon the excavation was com
pieted, and the form and steel work
were ready for the pouring of the
concrete at the end of the month
The concrete for this structure will
be mixed in the plant used for tun-
rel No. l and hauled to its destina-
tion by electrical locomotive. Two
thousand feet of track We're laid dur
ing the month for this purpose.
Preparations have been made to haul
gravel for the Ccal creek siphon at
once in order to avoid the possibility |
of interference from high water at
the gravel beds.
Work on the earthwork ton the I
canon division was limited TO THE oD-
GRAFTON of the sub-contraetor on
schedule T. who worked a force of |
about 80 men and 60 horse. moving 1
7.320 cubic yards of material during
the month. The work under the con-
tract with the Reynolds. Ely Con-
struction Co.. is now SIS per cent ccni-
plete. A trap for loading material
eNcavated on schedule 8. into rail-
road cars in which it will be hauled
To the diversion dam and used to COM