Delta, Utah Ward 50th Golden Jubilee pamphlet

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Page 8. "The work was hard, and the surroundings disagreeable, and it was trying on both men and horses."

8 Burtner Canal broke at Graves point on May 1910 and washed in against the track where there waslarge 111 and the went through the grace inbadger wa hole making about 20 feet deep on both sides of the track cutting the fill in two The East bound was wrecked about four cars were derailed ags man Mort of los Angeles wasst the company several thousand dollars agged the pond nearly all day for his body it was recovered Also for two caskets with in them 52411 Tue went out on Saturday May 21 1910 at Dsita State Bank was started in Feb FROMCREXNICLE he Big Diversion Dam Ty the farmerse Gui ie new canal which isa version dam has been weeks of strenmous scve May 2z and od for while OF JULY 1910good piece of to take the place ofnearly completed after work was begun labor 225 teams were employed Nea everybody who hadteam turned in on the we 3 vesuit isjob which the farmers can te pvid ofe The canal is sbout three miles longg iee places extensive cuts had to be made aere that run across the line of the -canal The spiliway broke The fores of the stream spil feap gharmel through the bank where the This was the second misfortune that fell Uslta the first being when the old dam brok The work on the canal was divided into seve The Lower end was in charge of Irvin sactions Black and his gang Jeffery andlarge gang had tha big above the Jeffery section Ee Maxfield had eharge of the urper end of the canal The and Lon Billings put in the dam and the surroundings disagreeable and Tveryons ing on both men and horses entititd to eredit forgood job done circumstances On Jaruary 13 to tuild small work was ha it was trye comnarned is under 1908 Mr Henry MeCullough room on the West side stard of his house Digital image copyright 2006 Beckwith Family All rights reserved