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Show of solid stone. it be fortuitous or Providential ' no excessively high floods the dam was a-buildin g, 18 91-94. Perhaps the dry part of the weather cycle had tEen wisel y h osen. lv:y boyhocd diary describes the celebration of the finl." sh'l.ng 0 the Dam:--- Wheter whle came fC - 10, 1894, "March Th e men ". After the picnic told of the would The women and children went t 0 th e D am f or a pacruc ere y th' puttl.ng the f'1.nJ.s h'long touches on the Dam. we all t t 0 the top of the high Dam; and speakers 0f 1.S D am and others before and a 1 rea d we r e . , building stay ',I , tn it; hopedthis could make a living at St. Joseph. The cost of Dam was $5,000.00. At the highest spot on the Dam, was a "marker":-- St. Jost>h No. 8 Cormnenced 1891. Finished 1894'1. Almost with pathos, Joseph H. Rl.chards offered the prayer of dedJ.'cat'a.on an d supp l'1.eatl.On7-- "H elp us, 0 Lord keep this Dam in if 't b Th If '11 Tl\e am \..ras later ral.sect j not, Thy will be done". one te 1n so we am. tB , rt. for afty7 The Floods of 1915 Again quoting from "Te larges::- my personal nood in the history diary:--of St. Joseph passed by Aere Fr1.day, Apfl.l 16, 1915. The Lyman on the 14th; the next morning, the last Reservoir above St. Johns had broken Hunt Reservoir Dam gave way' and morning of the 16th, the impounded waters added to the uch-swollen river-stream, rose to wfuti lin a tout 10 Lnches of the top of oUf; Dam. The main structure, however, 'was practically undamaged; but Dam was taken out; and much injury was .Jone the headgate and its protect ing stonework. Irrigation ditches were also much damaged by local floods. in the thelIspilhlaytt After the ditches had been Some early Spring planting had teen done,' ran high; and the water came d own the canal de still the river repaired, spite the fact that the spillway Dam was out. Most of tA e work done at the Dam this year was intended to be but temporary; and as the floods re ceded needs. logs and brush were This condition used to persisted the water in the canal up to our in that year a concrete 1916. keep until Ealy ch; and the spillway Dam partly the "high and dry" partof anI February, 1917, from any future loss forestall the Dam was raised at.out 3 feet, to to produce. Colorado the Little floods it was considerd possible for headgate was built at repaired. In January the head of t be dit Reservoirs up the River were being enlarged, and new ones constructed- ratio of thus increasing not only our darger from floods, but also the northward mud to water in the ri ver-flow from badlands and alkali 'flatis of the main stream. The Present Dam, 1923-24. with floods and high The year 1923 brought another excessively wet season, and the wat er much of the time, especially were 'Jashes and Flo v Sept em ber Highway bridges over the St Joseph Crossng and at the Leroux Sunset Old swept out. and Highway bridges at the Rr bridge. as was the st. Joseph dring , , Wash were'badlY months,f J:UY'i.AUf,ust, damaged, -nu.le Johs ;-:as 1923, the Lyman Reservoir to the flood waters o tne again broken; and the impounded waters added the t. the Little Colorado, with other acquisitions along wy, strck was taken; the low sp1.1lway Darn Joseph Dam sept. 18th. About 100 ft. of as far as the south canyon Dam above St. About mid-September, and the crib ani the main dam l>lall--some 200 ft. across were the ri ver washed away of the dam south channel. The extension |
