Identifier: canadianengineer30toro Title: Canadian engineer Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: Toronto, Monetary Times Print. Co. [etc.] Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: M. .Sander, chief hydrometric engineer, with twoprincipal assistants, Mr. G. H. Whyte and Mr. G. R.Elliott. The office staff consisted of two office computers and recorders, and twelve hydrometric engineers woreemployed in the field. The districts covered were the same as described inthe previous years report, with the addition of the WoodMountain district, which comprises a number of streamswhich rise in Saskatchewan and flow across the inter-national boundary, and are of considerable importance forthis reason. During the season records were gained for164 permanent gauging stations, 3,550 stream measure-ments were made by the field engineers, 29 new permanentstations were established, and 24 permanent iron bench-marks were set. On many of the smaller irrigation streams inSaskatchewan and A^estern .Mberta a very high per-centage of the run-ofi takes place in the early spring dueto the melting and rapid run-off of the winters snow.Pre\iously the hydrometric engineers had not taken the

Text Appearing After Image: Crawling Valley Dam, Eastern Section C.P.R. field early enough in the spring to measure this flow, butduring the spring of 1915 a special effort was made toobtain these very important measurements. In order tohandle this work, eight hydrometric engineers took thefield early in March and gained very valuable measure-ments. Six engineers were placed in the Cypress Hillsdistrict, one north and four south of the hills, anotheroperated along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railwaybetween Medicine Hat and Maple Creek. The hydro-metric engineer in the Wood Mountain district took thefield as early as possible, but owing to the difficulties ofgetting into this district did not get the peak measure-ments on all of the streams. HUDSON BAY RAILWAY. Estimates of the department of railways, among themappropriations of $3,000,000 to carry on the construction ofthe Hudson Bay Railway and its terminals at Port Nelson,and $1,500,000 for work on the National TranscontinentalRailway, were passed by the

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