The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-16
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 stumps pulled in the lake bottoms. The home sites subdivision has been surveyed and layed out, and several thousand dol lars have been spent grading roads through this property.
 For more than a month the actual work of constructing the dam for the big lake has been under way. This dam when completed will be 300 feet long and l25 feet wide at the bottom, cafrying over it's top 4o-foot. speedway.
 The spillway for the dam will be of reinforced concrete and tins alone will cost approximately S6ooo. The lake formed by this dam win be more than a mile and quarter in length, ranging from 500 feet to 1200 feet in width covering more than 100 acres of land. Running around this lake at an elevation of four feet above water level there will be a 4o-foot speedway used exclusively for motoring and speeding. The dam when completed will be 20 feet high. The fake therefore will be deep enough for all forms of boating as we'll as ideal for swimming and fish ing Ultimately sand beach will be SOhSttht tCd dioilB llt uOIln sue OI lne lake as an additional attraction to those who wish to swim.
 son the south side of the lake the club owns approximately loo acres of land This is being divided into home sites. The first row of home sites front directly on the lake and are on ala elevation approxi- mately of 15 feet above water level The nm fap of lntr side of Shades mountain and are approx imately 140 feet above the water level in the lake. Between the two tiers of lots runs a wooded parkway. From these lots you have magnificent view of the ridges and valleys which lie between Shades mountain and Red mountain.
 Directly at your feet Is the lake en- circled by the speedway drive and just to the north Is the beautifully wooded acres upon which is situated the club house, and where the golf courses. ten- his courts. baseball grounds and running tracks will soon be Constructed. These home sites are approximately 800 feet higher than the downtown section of the city of Birmingham. These home sites, therefore, not only have a beautiful view with the added elevation, but best of a Il, the southwest trade winds reach this property cool and pure before the smoke of the city and district is mingled there with.
 It is our ambition to provide not simply club. but a country home site section provided with a club, athletic field for sport. recreation and. development, a big lake for boating, fishing and swimming. In short time We are confident it will be necessary to erect new and much larger and more commodiohs clubhouse. We aSnafial1 mt tod in. at an early date dormitories so that young men who board in the city may, if they desire. live in the country on the club grounds, thus having the advantage of the country life as we'll as the social and athletic features of the club. In short. the one great purpose in view is to provide place where young men and young women of the city and district may go for social pleasure, for physical devel- opment and recreation. surrounded at all tmes by the most beautiful and whoIe- some conditions, such as will. in fact, inspire high ideals and purity of noble living"
 MIR. SoLON JACOBS CHATS ABorJT
 THE LAKE AND THE DAM.
 The dam being constructed by the Birmingham Motor and Country club. and which now is under course of rapid construction, will be 300 feet in length and in the dam there will be construct ed spillway of reinforced concrete in which there will be 15 massive wa ter gates for the purpose of providing for floods and any excess water that might arise.
 An additional feature of this type of construction is that by open ing these gates in times of floods the of the lake will be maintained at all times practically stationary and the deposit of unsightly debris around the edges of the lake will be avoided
 "The character of construction of this entire dam is of the most modern and is being supervised by engineers eminent in hydraulic work. thereby in- surfing an absolute permanency of con struction which, of course. is quite necessary in the empounding of such a large body of water as the dam will create.
 "A novel feature of this dam is that it's top surface will form a roadway. being a part of the speedway, planned to encircle the entire lake the length of which will be two and half miles.
 At no inland town in the south does there exist a body of water the size that our lake will form. It will be of