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Siphon WorkAcross the river yesterday the dlv-| c-rs- blew off some of tbe huge bon Id*)-1 ers that have prevented the huge court 1 crete retaining wall from slipping y ; down into the bowels of the earth, and about 9: tft) a. in. the huge mass began to slide down and had gone fully eight-teen inches before any one realized that it was moving at ail.Then it hung up on another boulder and when the Examiner man and some i listens walked over to view I ho work the divers had again gone down and wt.ro preparing for another round of shots.Project Engineer Sellew was there i. and explained the condition at the b-k-■ I turn of the shaft as follows.j in the first place the iiuick sand m i; found only on one side of the cutting -1 edge of the concrete. On the other-.! side is a mass of huge boulders prob-[ ably the result of years and years ag j ; whoa the level reached was the hut tom i of the old Pieacho wash. Niue fret ,- ® under these boulders is the strata ol' hard pan and sand stone which thev i are now v. or king In on the Arizonaf! side of the river. But this strata 1 comes under the siphon shaft on th . California side with an inclined dip r which makes it nine feet from on--* t! side of the cutting edge of the reta'.i-ij jug wall ami live bet from the other, it • The nine feet, of course, is oil the ,i; boulder side, mid consequently when the shaft and retaining wall are ome I'srt*? ii 11 ?i¥ invl ahMi;! (pilch sand then the worst of the (roll i* bio in over and the shaft will wu’l:• light on down after it can be firmly ; ' imbedded in the hard pun. just ij ji, is doing on this side of the river, c wile re they have not hart to use the Movers for over a week.(I The shall »n she Arizona side of the b river is now down to a depth of I'll , feet with twenty-rive feet more to go.,} On tin1 California side lliey are down (j to a depth of about fN feci with alum: j J u H» loot depiii ui attain beime tun-.' aiding is commenced, tl: 15o it. would seem that, from lln*.1 obstacles on countered so far that the, i, problem of sinking tin* siufLs uns!; almost. coiKiuered, and thal hy the fhst ! lt;jf July at the very latest, and very1 | likely by the middle of June, the ser-' [vice will he ready to begin the work 'of tunneling under tlie; river. j! Here, it is hoped that the work wilij all be in the him! saml stone, and il j this proves to be l.rvoj and there are-! no breaks or flaws that extend down ( h- this far In the middle of the river, then , this work should go forward very quickly and the first of October should sec the wnler bubbling up on this side 1 ! of the river. j1 The main canal which feeds the si- ( •'• 'pi.on on the California side will prom, '■‘.ably be brought around tinder the see-; ! ourt S. P. bridge on the reservation ! and from Mu re on down to Ihe siph-j.i ‘V shaft, on the west side of the railroad.. f, The r'-cln'mitioR officials have lin’ ’’’ e.irh ami e\'iy ijhstac le so far, mil, •s for Ibis they rir*j-f-rvr» great credit.----o-
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Yuma Examiner
Yuma, Arizona, US
Mon, May 16, 1910
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