Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14

canal and putting on finishing
touches will require a year more,
at least.
At present, for the first time, the
entire system is beginning to take
definite shape. Up TO now there
has been a beehive of activity
along the 80-mile front. To OBJ
servers. however, it has been a
confused picture of whizzing, dirt
laden trucks, dynamite blasts,
grunting draglines, and men and
mules. That picture has suddenly
:. leaped into clarity.
"a Same Activity
The same activity centers about
the dam site and along the first
miles of the canal, but cut of
the apparent chaos is appearing
ma degree of order. The founda-
5oCions of the desilting works can
be made out, its retaining walls
taking shape.
From there on the canal stretch
es in ever growing clearness. A
mind's-eye view shows the All
American, like a mighty serpent,
80 miles long gliding in the
shadow of the low hills, past
stern Pilot Knob, twisting over
the sand hills, on across the desert
and around CaleXico, until it
reaches the Westside Main. Seq
ments are missing, to be sure, but
the general outline stands out in
bold relief.
At Imperial Dam, progress is
hard TO note. The general pic
ture includes so much OF busy
pile drivers, concrete mixers, trucks
and tractors. Golfer dams can
be seen, however, constructed to
shunt the water away while work
is going forward. Such dams
have been built on both sides OF
the river. Excavation is well
under way Tor both the dam and
the desilting works. Steel and
timber pilings already have been
driven on the California side and
workers are starting TO place con-
crete pilings en- the Arizona END
of the dam. Forms are in pro-
cess of erection on the California
side, preparatory to pouring con-
crete for the dam.
EmDankmentS hlSInS
AT the desilting works site, spe-
cial compacted embankments are
rising which will eventually sur
round the basins. Pumping syS-
TENS are at work, clearing water
frCm areas protected by the Golfer
dams This entire sector is under
the Morrison, Winton, Utah con-
Germ.
=, In length, approximately 4O
|- miles or one half, of the canal
has been virtually completed.
In engineering terms, this means
roughly 1000 stations. Each sta
ton is 100 feet long. Beginning
p at Staten / at Imperial Dam,
! the canal runs to Station 1900,
its end Stations can easily be
translated into terms of miles
at the rate of $3.50 feet to the
mile. or roughly 81 stations.
Rising banks, rows of pilings,
mark the outlines of the canal,
sluiceWays and main channel down
to station 30 where the George
Pollock Construction con np ny
starts. The Pollock contract eX-
tends to Station 245. A sector,
Station $50 to 225, has been sub
contracted to the Lewis Construc-
ton company.
Work is being pushed in the
Pollock section, with almost all
the required timber and sheet pill
ing completed. The Lewis compa-
ny has made a good start on its
cCmpacted embankments. A big
rock cut at Laguna Dam, chief
obstacle, is about a third COM
pleted.
Frazier-Davis company has con-
tracted to build one wash siphon
in this section, at Station l2O.
This work is approximately one
half finished. Work is we'll under
way on three ether wash siphons,
under contract to the same COM
pany, at Stations 424, 600 and 700.
Into Sand Hills
Callahan Construction company
and Gunther and Shirley have
the sector Station 245 to 1885, A
sub contract to Boyce-Igo cCmpa-
nv cuts in from Station 800 to 100.
From Station 300 to 700 is virtu-
ally complete. Station TOO to 800
is still uncompleted. Boyce-Igo has
nearly completed from Station 800
to 100, with some slight eXcava-
ton yet to be done at Araz.
The segment 100 to ITO will be
cleaned up by the Callahan COM
pany after the sand hill section
is complete. This sector, Station
1850 to 1850, is ncw over hall
complete. Two large rock cuts,
in the section 1150 to 1900, al
ready have been finished by the
Griffith company.
Lewis Chambers company takes
over at Station 1860. Their work
extends to 2740. A little less than
|, hall of this contract has been
FINISHED. The eastern half is yet
to be touched.
The Mittry Brcs. company sec
tor extends from Station 2740 to
3lOO. This is sub-contracted to
the Callahan company. EXcava-
\ ion is approximately one fourth
ycomplete after five months work,
Excavation was started at the
eastern end.
At Station 3lO0 the force ac-
count begins, where the canal is
virtually complete on to Station
4242. the end of the canal where
it meets the West side Main.