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TTLTE Micro FD (OKESOrf) MAIL TB.IBUNK Sundsy. Julr 22, 1951 ew i!i Hi Emigrant Lake To Be Expanded; Other Items Are Listed ir ERIC ALLEN JP. MiJ Tribun Managing Editor A nw aic fiv milM long. 80 fe.?t deep, 2.500 icr 10 area will itart rising In !$i Cascades during th turn er of 1353. Tn northern tip of Hoird VraiTi lake will lap nar the dq of the Dead Indian road, approximately half - way b tween Ashland and Lak i t3 Woods. Th water to fill the lake will be diverted from a half-$-tn or more high-country reeks, fed by wintertime J3 at and ipring and fall Orirn. tne south and wel. the Ocor will flow through man jaOt canals, conduits and toOO!s tnrouah the Caicade 3:0 O" to the westward slop toe Green Springs pass. 8re ii will plunge down a 1.776 foot pensloclc into gowerhouse. where it will gen eral inn 16.000 kilowatts of electricity. From the powerhouse the I jer. supplemented by other ! creeks and canals, will flow into Emigrant lake reservoir which will soon there- j after be increased over five times in its capacity. During the summer months, the water will be withdrawn from Emi grant and channeled through fee canal systems of an ex panded Talent Irrigation dis trict, to water broad acre of fruit, vegetables, truck eropi end forage fields. It will lup lement the water lupply of two other irrigation distrieti further north down Ihe Bear Creek drainage. This is the Talent project, cul mination of years of work, and effort and dreaming by men ho see for the Rogue valley a prosperous future, with an econ omy based on fertile farms as weil as lumber from the hills, on food processing and pack aging plants as well as on the manufacture and remanufacture nf wood products. Two Main Pillars Lumber and aenrulture are the two main pillars supporting the Rogue valley. The third im portant pillar recreation will also receive an important ind substantial added impetus from the completion of the proj ect. The magnitude of the multi purpose job can be told in sev eral ways. In terms of cash, it means the expenditure of about S21 mil lion fnr construction, paid by the federal government but to be repaid through water use charges ard the salp of electric energy. It also means greater crnp yields, for during most years 1 1 he ample water supply of 1D.tR is an exception to the normal i there is not enough water to permit farmers to take full advantage of the productivi ty of the soil. More and better crops mean a more prosperous agricultural industry, and this in turn means more money for merchants of all types, and for service industries. It means a slider tax base lor local govern ment. Natural Resources In terms of tnp conservation of natural resources, the project means- the beneficial use and re u; of our most important sinele resource, waier. It means better arte;s to thousands of acres of good timber. Ii means that land now lying idle will support more people. In terms of recreational bene fits, it means a major new lake, approximately tl-.e sue of Dia mond l.kc. with its associated raniPEi ounc! -. homcsiles and in stitutional camp areas; it means the pprnms i'P r'f beautiful section of hish mountain coun try, aorl the enlargement and ex teninn of Emigrant lake, already' the mei i a of hundreds of boat owner. I' n-e;rs the .stabiliza tion rf H art lake, which will be used o!':y for water storage and will rot. in ordinary years, be rir?wn down m the summer months, thus making it a better fishing lake. Water sports of all types will he gien a chance for n-ji-'i e'eatrr development. Initial Construction In:al construction on the Ta:ent p.-oiert is ready to begin. Bins on several r'as of the overall development nave been nt'ered. and the low bidders are s,-t go Congress has pa.: sen the initial S2.400.0JO ap propriation, w hich is now avail able D "tailed plans and speci v:or; are virtually complet vri for i-.ooy of the items The f "e thing remaining to ; u nc before construction can i-osin ;s an election for landowner- m the Talent Irrigation dis trict, at wuch time they will Qo'e a repayment contract etween tne district and Lh SCOPE OF PROJECT The scope of the Talent proiert. ork on which will begin soon, is shown in 'he inap-ciiai-ani nbm e At the left trie shaded area shnus ti e lands v. inch m ill he brought under new or supplemental irrigation when it is com pleted, totaling more than 17.000 acres. In addition, about 9.000 acre feet of water will lie made available for use in tiie Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts, sur rounding Medford. Central Point, and lo the east At the upper right can be seen Lake of the Woods. To the left of it is the South Fork canal, uppermost of the project works, which will collect water to channel it into the Big Draw canal snrl thence into the Howard Prairier reservoir. Water from the upper part of Dead Indian creek also will be used. The How ard Prairie Delivery canal, coming out of the reservoir and winding through the mountain to the south and west, will "WING" DAMS NEEDED This view shows the south end of Emigrant lake, which is the part with which most people are familiar. Highway 66 can he seen at the far right. The picture was taken from a spot just above the high water level to he created by the higher dam. and the arrow at the left, under Filot rock, shows approximately where the south end of the bureau of reclamation. The pro posed contract is in its final stages of negotiation, and the election has been called for Aug. 22. Terms of the contract, some what similar to those approved by the Medford and Rogue Riv er Valley Irrigation district landowners for rehabilitation of their canal systems, will include a 60-year repayment period, with the money to be raised by water-user fees, r'us the sale of electric energy from the powerhouse. Indicates Attitude A majority of Talent district landowners have already indi cated their favorable attitude toward the contract, and the election is expected to result in strong endorsement of the pro posal. There are 25 separate "pro gram items" in the project. Of these, construction is expected lo get under way immediately on four. They are the Howard Prairie dam and reservoir, estimated to cost some 52.000.000: the Big Draw- collection canal, which will pick up wa'er from several creeks on the west side of the Cascade divide and send them through a tunnel to the east side, estimated to cost about S2, 000.000; Howard Prairie deliv ery canal, which will carry the water from the reservoir south and west ipicking up some ad ditional creek water as it goes' and through a tunnel to the west side of the Cacade divide, esti mated co.r about S4.00n.non. ?nd an interceptor ditch, $112. 000, Earth Till Dam Howard Prairie reservoir -tl! be dammed by an earth fill dam w ith a concrete core 90 feet high and 940 feet long at the crest. It will require about 1S6.000 cubic yards of earth fill and 204.000 cubic yards of rock fill. It will be equipped with outlet to the canal, and a spillway. The reservoir will have a live I its rCHSrCCK StTf W " fNf CfiClK UVERSIOK I - ! nL A V' h , I - , - .W r - capacity of 60.500 acre-feet of water, and dead storage of 1.500 acre feet. Heaviest draw-downs will be in the fall and winter, so generally it will be full or r.ear-full during the summer recreation season. One of the big jobs faced in preparation for filling the lake will be clearing the area to be inundated of trees, brush and the few structures existing. Some of this nas already start ed, with contracts for clear-cut logging let by the bureau of land management. Stumps are limited to a 10-inch height, and the bureau of reclamation w-ill also clear underbursh from be low the highwater line. Water Collection The dam should be near com pletion by the summer of 1959, and collection of water is sched uled to begin then. The delivery canal is expected to be completed a year later. Work on the Emigrant reser voir and dam i srheduled to start the summer of 195R. and will cost an estimated $4,531. 000, the most expensive single unit, of the entire project. Using the present concrete arch dam as a core, a big new earth fill dam will be construct ed at the present site, and will raise the maximum level of the lake about 84 feet enough to increase the capacity of the res ervoir about 5': times, from P. 000 acre-feet to 45.000 acre feet. Sise Incress The size of the lake !?e. n-ill oe increased many times. The larger area will require reloca tion of roads, moving of homes and some businesses and the clearing of considerable land. The present junction of High way 66 and the old Facific highway will be inundated, and arms of the lake will go far up Emigrant creek and Hill creek. Preliminary work on the Green Springs powerhouse will get under way next year, with full-scale construction, the sum w w j ' A Y'"" x K I f0W "k 0 e""'cl pn'k up additional water from a number of creeks in that area. 11 will pass the Keen Creek diversion and through a tunnel under the Cascade divide (shown by the broken line) and through a channel and penstock lo the Green Springs power house. Part of this w ater will go into the Ashland lateral canal along the west side of the valley, but most of it will flow down Emigrant creek into Emigrant reservoir, which will be en larged to hold p. maximum of 45.000 acre-fcet. This will be the chief immediate sovirce of irrigation water during the summer. The reservoirs at Hyatt and Howard prairies will be drawn down mostly in the winter, to fill electric needs and to replen ish the supply in Emigrant reservoir before the irrigation sea son. The north end of Howard Prairier reservoir will be ad jacent to the present Dead Indian road. lake will be when full. Just to the right of this picture is a gap in the hills which will be filled when an earth-fill wing dam, because the gap at present is below the proposed high water level. Another wing dam will be needed in the gap on the far side of the hill at the right. Highway 66 will have to be relo cated before the enlarge lake rises. mer of 1958. with completion a year later. It will cost an esti mated S2. 000, 000. The entire project is sched uled for completion, except for some minor canal work, by the summer of 1962, but much of it will be done a year earlier, and its benefits will start to be felt sooner than that. Tne total cost, based on cur rent estimates, will be about S21.000.000. but some of the bids received so far have been considerably below estimates, while others have been above. What the ultimate cost will be remains to be seen, but it is not expected to go too far above the estimates. Penstock, Powerhouse One of the most spectacular aspects of the job. and the one most readily visible, will be the penstock and powerhouse. The penstock will go down more than 1.700-feet. and will be about 9.600 feet long It will cross the Green Springs high way (No. 66i at about its steep est point, as it winds around the side of the hills above Tyler creek. From the powerhouse. s"me of the water will go into the Ash land lateral, for delivery to higher lands on the W'est side of the valley, and the rest into Emigrant creek and so into the reservoir. Some of the most important work in the project, but prob ably the least spectacular, will EAGLES PICNIC Sunday, July 22 ROGUE RIVER PARK 9 ladies, Please Bring Salad and Silver Service Sports Events For All Ages FOR EAGLES AND FAMILIES ONLY! be the construction of new de livery canals and laterals, and the reconstruction and repair of existing structures. Completion of the project will mark a milestone in the prog ress of the Rogue valley, and another step in the continuing program of western reclamation and irrigation. Ontario Man Fatally Injured in Accident Ontario, Ore. fU.R) Iraneig Montiel Yebra, 24, of Ontario, was fatally injured 11 miles north of there Friday night In a one-car accident on Highway 30. He died yesterday morning in an Ontario hospital. Riding with Yebra was Greg orio Hernandez, 48, also of On tario. He threw himself on the floor boards and was not injured. Police said Yebra's car went off the right side of the road and skidded for 133 feet in a ditch, then bounced back on the highway and rolled 210 feet be fore it stopped. Yebra was thrown from the car. Washington ill.Rl A spec ial postage stamp honoring the salmon industry may have its first day of sale in Seattle. Amity, Ore. 'U.Ri Fire lev eled a farm dwelling here Thurs day and left the Raymond Jones familv of seven homeless. ''"'11; " LAKE TO RISE FHOM HERE This view is taken from the top of the existing concrete rch dam which backs up Emigrant lake. The present dam will serve as the core of a new arth-fill dam, which will rise about 84 feet 1 1 V'r HEAD OF THE NEW LAKE Shown above is a stretch of the Dead Indian road abqut half-way between Lake of the Woods and Ashland where the upper end of the newly created Howard Prairie lake will be. The wa ters of the lake are expected to come right Contest Touches Off Controversy Long Beach, Calif. (U.Ri Carol Morris, daughter of an Iowa minister, won the Miss Universe title early Saturday and touched off a controversy that marred the contest. The judges' selection was an - nounced a few minutes after midnight and smouldering re sentment of rejected Latin America contestants flared into open revolt. All of the Latin American beauties were eliminated earlier from the five girl semi-finals, causing complaints that the judges were biased in favor of North American and European types. I n ey bore no personal grudge against the statuesque 20-year- old daughter of an Ollunivva. minister but they thought Latin Americans had been slighted be - cause none from their ranks had von the contest in its five-year history. Miss Braiil's Merit Some of the Europeans sided with the Latin Americans. Iris Waller, Miss England one of the semi-finalists, congratulated Miss Morris but later said she thought it "very odd that all Latin Americans among the 15 semi American girls were disqual- finalists there was ample ma iied" I terial for the final five. "I thought Miss Brazil es-1 -.Miss Argentine. Miss Mexico pecially deserved to be among jsnd Miss Peru all were well the selected five semi-finalists," qualified to eet into this erouo." miss waiter said MISS EASY VISION - f Lr-"-"- .A "h T SHIRLEY m SOTTERFIELD gf ' '- 4 j ;5 702 N.W. Dimmitk S'"1"" 7' CranH Pass, Oregon . - -," A -j-.u . MrrS r urn i""-k'iiTi -mnl'i n minl in n 1 ALL-BRIGHT , .MMMrtr ,nr.....l,-fi-ta I HI! -i - III T'fPt i v ir:y vv;-w - - .' v , ' jT , & v & r ' " i I Miss Israel. Sara Tal, who earlier had refused to pose with Miss Germany, thought at least one Latin American should have j been in the semifinals, j Tne Laun Americans thought . it was unfair that Americans , ,, .i-ie title in two nf the las' three contests. Most of the foreign girls were good losers Friday night when Miss Morris, winner of the Miss Iowa and Miss USA titles, was picked from among five inter national finalists as fhe most beautiful girl in the world. M'ss Germany Second There were happy congratula tions for the Drake university , coed from her runners-tip. Miss Germany. Marina Orschel. 19: Miss Sweden. Ingrid Goude. 19. j .tj,c5 England. Iris Waller. 21: 1 pncj j!5S Italy. RnWnna Galli. 21, who finished in that order jln the finals, I But in the wings after the - contest was over, much Emm- bling came from the Latin Amer icans. Maria Cardosa, Miss Bra zil, declared: "We all are disappointed. I am certain that among the Latin she added. "It didn't matter to Thanks to Crater Lions TELEVISION CO. IZTZl". i hi inn i S&MtJ&a&m higher and multiply the size of the lake about 5 1 2 times. When completed the high water mark will be nearly half way up the small hill shown on the far side of the lake. up to the right side of the road, and may pos sibly require a short section of the road shovvn to be relocated. This view looks ap proximately to the east. The lake will go south from this point, about five miles to th new dam. me whether I got in or not." Judge Defends Choice One of the nine judge, lustrator Alberto Varga, hinv self of Peruvian origin. nf phatically denied that the judge had attended too lightly to the duties: ''It's one of the mot tftanl less jobs in the world," he de clared. "In fairness to moy col leagues, I must insist that they did a most careful, conscientious job in accordance with their In structions. The winner has darV brown l.air. blue eyes and a fair com plexion. She is five-feet, seven inches tall, weighs 129 pounds and measures 36-25-36. Miss Morris. Drake uni versity swimming champion, fainted after beins declared the j winner, but. she later came rn i stage ' to receive her scepter. crown and satin cape amid the cheering of the 4.000 spectators at Long Beach Municipal Audi torum. Her mother and father, the Rev. Laverne Morris and his wife. Gertrude, were in the audience. Housing costs for laying hens can be cut by increasing the number of birds per square foot of floor space. Floor areas ran he reduced to l'-z to 2 square feet per hen. WINNER! WjkllWJ..,lMJIl.I 1 mm,m ,ummAM i m i,ie i
