The daily sentinel., 1914-05-04
A TRIP TO THE
HIGHL|NE CANAL
(Adeline II. Sperry.)

Last Saturday morning. bright and
early, Miss Agnes Dodson, Mr.. ID. W.
Aupperle. Mr. Sperry and / started
out for the High Line camp. We
blew up tire Just out of Palisade.
and drove back to the garage and got
fixed up in about a half hour; also
found some pretty bad roads on the
way and arrived at camp No. too
late to eat dinner with the men. We
we're little disappointed, but man
aged to eat heartily of the splendid
dinner nevertheless. The chef, A.
W. Danes. told us that it was the
average daily MONDAY meal that he
put before us. We were served two
kinds OF meat, three vegetables, ex-
cellent bread and butter, blueberry
pie and coffee. The men pay %
each for their meals. and pay moth
Ing whatever for their hunks, MAX
ing their expenses but 10 cents per
day. The dining room is large, airy
and clean. There are ten large ia
bles. each seating ten persons. The
tables are covered with white oil
cloth; the floor and shelves and serv-
ing trays immaculate. The kitchen
in 80 26 feet, and is equipped with
snowy tables, a huge range and
white granite cooking utensils. Chef
Danes was awfully nice to us, not
withstanding the fact that we had
caused him extra work, and showed
us around. We looked into his store
room and his meat room, played with
the kitten and asked all kinds of
pertinent and impertinent questions
He told us that he bakes thirty-six
loaves of bread a day. besides zoe
rolls. 25 pies and three large pans
of cakes. He uses from four to five
gallons of Grand valley fruit a day,
"a gallons of milk, s to 10 pounds of
butter, ~ dozen eggs and 200
pounds of meat. Flesh fish and
chicken are served once or twice a
week. Mr.. Danes feeds from so to
100 men a day. and apparently they
all have pretty fair appetites. The
aim of the government seems to be
to keep their men contented and
well nourished. After we had joined
in charge of the work. took us
through the offices. The house in
which the offices are now situated
was built with the idea of making of
ii a comfortable and convenient
home for the gate keeper. who will
occupy II after the work at that end
of the canal has been completed. We
then went over to the head works
and | tried my best to look intelli-
gently while Mr.. Reedy explained the
construction of this wonderful prof.
ect.
Four thousand barrels OF cement
have been used in the sluice way
and headgates, and the entire dam
will take about 81 900 feet OF rip
rapping. 1t would take freight
train seven miles long to carry all OF
the material being used in the con-
struction work. A Y inch cable
/ 900 feet long is used in handling
the material required in the building
of the dam. This cable is attached
to two dead men, on opposite sides |
OF the river. There Iirne h-du-
gates. only eight of them to be used
regularly, the ninth to be used only
in case of an accident. The me-
chanism of these gates is so skillfully
constructed that a man can raise
them without much effort. They
will be controlled by a very small
gasoline engine. The openings of
the headgates are seven feet square,
and ,425 cubic feet of water per
second will pass through the gates.
The gate operator will start the gem
orator in the generator room, turn
the water in the direction he wants
it to go, then go out on top OF the
gate stand and throw into gear the
mechanism which operates the gate
then as he releases the pressure the
motor will stop. The full height
from the bottom of the dam to the
top of the tower which operate the
sluice gate is about 73 feet. From
the regulator gate wall to the bot
tom of the dam is about 43 feet. The
bottom of the sluice gate is about
eight feet from the bottom of the