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Show £ 111 H water for this canal to be pumped by means of a direct- connected, water- operated pump* using tor motive power the water released for downstream oanals^ ( 4) Hyrum lateral of 10 second- feet capacity, 2 miles long, to carry suppleaental water to lands northeast of Hyxum « , frie reservoir wxxx pruvios scarce water for 12,000 acres of land already fanned* On March 20th construction of the dam was started, the contractor being J. A « Terceiing & Sons, Spokane, Wash. „ and the contract price $ 337,211° Ihe contract calls for completion of the work by July 1935, but the contractor expects to finish in November 1934* A- repayment contract with the South Cache Water Users• Association was executed October 24, 1933„ Do J » Paul is Sesidont Engineer with headquarters at Hyrum* OODBN RI73B PBOJECT; The purpose of this project is to furnish a supplemental water supply to about 19,000 acres of irrigated lands adjacent to the City of Ogden ( and Brigham)* Its principal construction feature Is the Pineview Reservoir of 389000 acre- feet capacity, located at the head of Ogden Canyon, about f miles east of Ogdene The dam will be an earth and rock- fill structure about 80 feet high, 900 feet long at the crest and containing 815 ,, 000 cubic yardso Part of the stored water will be released to supplement the water supply of existing canals and the balance will be carried through the 5c2- mile pipe line of the Utah Power and tight Company to the lower end of Ogdsn Ganyon, where the proposed GgSen- Brigham Oanalg 23 Mies lon; s> will carry water northward to Bright and the $ otith Ogden hlghline canal, 8 mi las lmg9 will s^ rve !& n£ g which lie feast of Qg^ « u « |