E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . eing carried out xrnderthe direction of W. Ingham, chief en-gineer of the Rand Water Board, withJ. C. Hawkins, as resident the back of the piers the WaterBoard is building for the Public WorksDepartment, a much-needed bridgeacross thp Vaal. The barrage is expected to be com-pleted early in 1921, and will back upthe Vaal to form a huge lake nearly40 miles long, which will contain 13,-633,000,000 gal. of water. Besides sup-plving water to the towns, the dam willirrigate many square miles of country. Utah Apex Suit Continues First Part of Trial
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . eing carried out xrnderthe direction of W. Ingham, chief en-gineer of the Rand Water Board, withJ. C. Hawkins, as resident the back of the piers the WaterBoard is building for the Public WorksDepartment, a much-needed bridgeacross thp Vaal. The barrage is expected to be com-pleted early in 1921, and will back upthe Vaal to form a huge lake nearly40 miles long, which will contain 13,-633,000,000 gal. of water. Besides sup-plving water to the towns, the dam willirrigate many square miles of country. Utah Apex Suit Continues First Part of Trial Almost Ended— Testimony Concerns Highland Boy Limestone The Utah Apex Mining Co. on finished the presentation of its wit-nesses in the first part of the suit withthe Utah Consolidated Mining Co. overapex rights, which has been in progressfor about two weeks in the UnitedStates court in Salt Lake for the Utah Consolidatedhave dcclai-ed that the rebuttal evidencewill be short so that the end of the first. WINTER FLOW OF VAAL RIA^ER. SOUTH AFRICA, CONFINED BETWEENSAND BAG WALLS Arizona & Swansea R. R. Told toResume Freight Traffic When the Arizona & Swansea R. was interrogated by theArizona Corporation Commission con-cerning failure of the company to fur-nish service to the Swansea Lease, therewas offered the novel defense that theroads only locomotive is in a Phoenixfoundry for repairs for which the com-pany had no money to pay. It wassuggested that, as the Lease alreadyhad advanced funds for repair of thetwenty-six-mile road, it should alsofurnish the .$3,000 necessary to get thelocomotive back on the line. The Com-mission failed to see the point and ord-ered immediate resumption of freighttraffic. The railroad, in northernYuma County, was built by GeorgeMitchell, who was at the head ofthe original Clara-Swansea minesincorporation, later bankrupt. The roadis not in debt and is valued at $500, Lease, now said to be valuablethr
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