The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05
Will Take But a Day to Fill Lake With an Inch of
 Rainfall
WILL CONTAIN 300 MILLION GALLONS
Motor Boat Owned by Joseph A. Yates at the Club Ready to Be Launched. Club to Build Water
 Toboggan

The Birmingham Motor and Country club announces the completion of the big dam across Shades creek. from Bald Ridge on the north to Shades mountain on the south, thus impounding the waters of a quarter miles long and one quarter of a mile wide. The depth of this lake will be from four to 10 feet.
 The dam Is 125O feet long. and contains 10000 cubic feet of dirt.
 The spillway contains 300 cube yards of reinforced concrete. and has 15 gates each three feet wide, that when opened during flood times, will be raised 10 feet high, permitting solid wall of water 10 feet high and 45 feet wide to run over the dam.
 The flow of Shades creek during dry period last summer measured 10S0 gallons per minute This Is the minimum. A measurement made last week showed 45,- 600 gallons of water per minute running through the openings of the spillway be- fore the dam was finished
 Day to Fill Lake To fill this lake with 100000 gallons of water from it's water shed of 2s square miles will take rainfall of one inch, dssuIHlnS that Dne-tulru IS dDSOTpcu Dy the ground and does not reach the lake. One Inch of ra'n in "A hours. which is not unusual, will fill the lake in one day.
 A motor boat, the Mitylene, is at the club ready to be launched next week by Joseph A. Yates. the owner. Several other members have ordered motor boats and this promises to become very at tractive sport
 The club is going to to build a water to- began. This consists of a chute or slide, very steep. down which one or two per sons shoot at S4 miles an hour on a board or toboggan. The toboggan is curved up at the front end and has hand grips. When 1t hits the water 1t skips 50 to 75 feet in the air the first jump. and short distance each time thereafter. like skip ping flat rock on the water. Then they swim back and do 1t lover and over again."
 Swimming of course, will receive great attention. The sand beach will prove very attractive and it will not be hard to imagine one is on the coast. The men. women and children of Birmingham are all swimming, or learning to swim.
 Everything necessary to make this the biggest club in the south is being done by it's management, with Charles H. Rice. president, ably assisted by Hive wire board of directors. consisting of Solon Jacobs. George A .Blinn Jr., II. B. w neelOck, J. E. SIelDy. II. Y. I<atln1eT and G. T. Brazelton. The engineer and superintendent of work Is R. l.. Totten.
 Stock of Fish Secured
 Fishing, the greatest sport In the worlN to a fisherman and the fish that gets away-is being properly cared for as in- dcated in the following letter sent to all the club members:
 ITO tht Fishermen of the Birmingham Motor and Country Club. Birmingham: The dam is completed
 "A stock of fish bass and bream, for breeding purposes, has been secured from the United States government through the kindness of our senator, Capt. Frank s. White and will arrive soon
 "The board of directors desire to turn over every question and detail concern ing fish and fishing in the lake to a competent committee made up from the fishermen members of the club
 kindly advise the club. at S111s Wood ward building, phone Main S49S if you are a fisherman so complete list of the fishermen members can be made. and committee formed.
 "A very important detail in the con- struction of the dam is the fish screen which is now being built to keep the fish from going through the spillway. No doubt you fishermen will enjoy running out to take look before the water covers it. Very truly
 BIRMINGHAM MOTOR AND COUN-
 TRY CLUB.
 "P S.-The Thursday night dnner- dances are proving very enjoyable to a large number of the members. Reserva- tions should be made not later than Wednesday nights. Phone Main 5S66.'