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Show of the canyon "raIl, other than what woul d slide off a s the flood receded bleow the top of the south canyon wall, was undamaged. st. Joseph bristled. The river ran high for a while' and water could be gotten if needed; but by Sept. i8th, with the wet from the sUam storms, the long-season crops as well as those but a short requirin season, were practically "made"; and the time of after t he XxM high away, was utilized in finishing the harvesting, and in lor the const.ru et i.on makang The annual election of the work1 head. Board of Dlrectors for the at hand; and Oct. 8, 1923, James A. Hansen, John L. vJestover, Rollin C. Tanner, Jesse S. Bushman, and myself were elected. The new Board visited the site of the lost Dam Oct.'lOth. After taking measurements for the new Dam, and , with long rods, sounding for the depths of the quicksands for any possible se foundation t.h> t it might bepossi ble to use it was to "run the same cour-se that , Q\1rfathers had run". The essential features of the plan we re not of our origination. Suggestions of the Board were accepted at the general meeting of the Company, already called for Oct. 15th. Measurements of the n-'j Dam were to be approximately 120 ft. st.one-co i-ed spillway Dam; a concrete wall would replace the old wooden "crib", thus widening the spillway; and the high and dry part of the Dam was to be much as the earlier Bam ---120 ftl thick at the base, 26 ft. high, and 10 ft. across the top. The cost was estimated approximately $16,000.00. The Dam was finished Nov. 29th, 1924. farms water Dam.was.washe teau:y Irrigatioas My diary entry, March 13, 1924:--- "Today we completed "high and dry" part of the concrete abuttment at the north end of the Dam was completed, and the Dam; the water turned into the ditch, as far as the first wast.e-gat,e , Harchlst; and into the Reservoir a day or so later. t he 2 the spilway During remaining days xx of this week, we expect to finish the Upper Dam for the present, although it is probble that a concrete abuttment will be put on the south end of the Dam near the south wall of the for the purpose of relieving canyon, the danger from excessively high floods. The Lower Dam We have seen that in moving the Dam from the site of 1876 to that of 1879, much excellent water , springing up in and along the river was lost. After moving back to the 1876 site in 1881 and again in 1891, there was still a usable amount of this good water springing up below the Dam. In a meeting of the St. Joseph Irrigation Co., held April 5, 1897. a motion was passed that this water be obtained. The site chosen for the purpose of building a Lower Dam to divert clear water vas near the western boundary of Sedtion 36, hiNB 18 Ramee 19 East. For tre of this same township. _/_J North, St. Joseph is now situated in Section 16 For sometime at the begi.nni.ng , only "sand dams" were used, since the upper ditch was sufficiently large to carryall the water needed when it was available at the Upper Dam. most part, Work on the construction of the permanent Lower Dam began abmut Dec. 20 , 1899·, but for some reason it seems to have progressed very slowly for Some time' ar.d on the 22nd of April, 1901, another vote to b egn . work had beerrEaken Jan. 18 1902 it was voted "that we finish the Lower Dam by the This may after Monday next". as as infer that in January 1902 , the Lower Dam was finished. It is instrumets likely earlier than the pssible soo , that the water was just gi ven , date taken out of the since its use h ere a yer or two may have been restncted to . rver |
