Six Mile Creek? So Now We Know mm Marriott-Slaterville City Keith Butler 1195 W. 400 N. Marriott-Slaterville, Ut 84404 December 8, 2000 Dear Mayor Butler, Here is this Month's newsletter. I hope you find it helpful. Use of E-mail to deliver this newsletter If you have an E-mail address, we would like to send this newsletter to you over the Internet. You would get the newsletter immediately, and save Weber County time and money. Please send me an E-mail at gburbidg@co.weber.ut.us. stating you want to get the newsletter electronically. If you are receiving this newsletter by E-mail, you are already on my list. * Weber River Watershed Project Update by Bob Clark, Weber River Watershed Coordinator I completed the grant writing workshop at Snowbird and this was one of the most intensive workshops with guides on grant writing from conception to completion. This information will be very valuable on funding the Weber River Projects. I met with Lambert Lewis, chair of the Kamas SCD and now have received support from all boards in the project. Also with John Whitehead, DEQ; and Scott Stoddard, US Army Corps of Engineers on planning and support for the Weber River Project. I'm in the process of obtaining data from each county and city within the watershed to have all the political contacts. This data will help with the forming of the steering committee that I expect to have in place next month. I still need names, organizations and agencies that you feel should be included in the committee. Please call, Fax or write with this information to Bob Clark: new Mobile number 801-201-4992, Fax 801-829-6176, Phone 801-845-1468 or PO Box 60, Morgan, UT 84050. With the formation of the steering committee we will be establishing one of the primary benefits of partnerships by improving coordination and promote integration among the various interests involved in resource management of the Weber River. Watershed partnerships provide citizens and government the opportunity to pool their financial and technical resources, gather scientific and social data, chart a course for watershed conservation and restoration and implement protection and restoration actions. * Did You Know Four and six mile creeks in North Weber County were named by the railroad. The names represent the mileposts on the rail line where the streams cross the tracks. The mileposts are measured from Ogden going North. * A Piece of History (This article, which is undated, was provided by Harris Adams and Bill Rigby. Harris found this as part of an archive for the Layton Museum. Original spelling and grammar have been maintained.) "Canal Work Finished "Cost More than a Quarter of a Million to Cement Nine Miles of Davis & Weber Co.'S Canal. "Yesterday morning the gate of the Davis & Weber counties canal were raised. "The whole structure having been completed after a united labor since September last. Nine and a halt miles of heavy concrete work, twenty-two feet at the bottom and thirty-four feet on top, six feet deep, there being a elope of forty-five degrees, which will hold 750 cubic second feet until the power house site is reached, then it is reduced to nineteen feet in the bottom and thirty two feet wide and five feet deep holding 450 cubic second feet. "It required 350 carloads of cement and nearly 1,900 carloads of gravel. "The excavating cost about $50,000 and tons of cable and iron for reinforcing weak points. "The canal in all has cost well nigh on to $800,000 "The canyon work being grand, protected by a heavy iron fence, set in concrete. Many points of the mountain blown off into the river, makes it look quite artistic, when lined and plastered up to a neat wall "Gasoline boats can run from the Bamberger line to the canyon "Joseph, Sanders and William Krauase, both eastern people, are locating a summer resort near the Devil's Gate, so Saltair will not be in it. These gentlemen have an eye so business. "It has been estimated that there has been over five thousand different men on the works as laborers since the construction has been in progress -the largest number enrolled at once being about six hundred, mostly foreigners, the little Japs exceeding them all in work and cleanliness, Japan can he proud of her nation. 90