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Show - 2.- Theee structures have oeen raised from time to time by tbe several interests indicated above* The total expenditure being in the neigiborhood of $ 12,000000 eacbc In the interval since 1924 similar structures to those built at Farmington and Willard have been erected at Mount Pleasant, at Paro- wan, at Summit, at Kanarrah, at Santaquin, at Payson, at several points in Davis County, at Parry, at Magna; and a structure of materially greater proportion has been put into effective operation above the Gerfield smelter at Garfield- The latter structure cost in the neighborhood of $ 125,0003Q0; while the complete control system at Garfield has cost in the neighborhood of one- half million dollarsc The additional structures in Davis County were built in part by R, F. Q9 labor in 1932 and have been carried on by C. GcCo labor in 1934, rith a total expenditure of more than $ 30,000* Additional flood control structures built in 1933 and 1934 by C « C. C. labor, include s. series of rubbl3 masonry spillways and barriers in ^ alina Creek; a series of structures on JSscalante Creek with one principal structure Thich has cost upwards of $ 50,000. On the headwaters of the Virgin River a series of such dams were built near Alton in 1933. A considerable portion of these structures have been destroyed by floodso Further down the river near Glendale and Orderville a series of flood and channel control structures were built in the fall and winter of 1933c While still further down the Virgin near Virgin City a series of channel control structures were built in the spring of 1934 and at La Verkin the same CCoCo camp completed a series of channel control structures on the La Verkin Creek and on Ash Creek, also on Hurricane Creek at Hurricaneo At Washington in Washington County the town was protected against devastation by floods in the |