Bottom gates of the power dam were closed over the week-end, backing water upstream partly to cover the mud bottoms that have been exposed in the Mirror pond basin of the Deschutes river for the past week. The Mirror pond will remain at its present level until work on the top portion of the dam is completed.
Racing incoming water, a crew under the supervision of W. J. Coleman of the pageant committee yesterday repaired the rock piers which for several years have provided anchorage for the pageant arches. An investigation revealed that the rock piers are apparently firm. A new foundation was erected on the piers. Earlier, plans were made for cement piers, but this proposal was abandoned.
Upstream from the Drake park footbridge, pageant booms are deeply mired in the ooze, but it is believed that incoming water will free the partly water-logged timber, permitting the booms to rise to the surface.
Ducks and geese were back on the stream today, apparently in considerable number. There is no way yet of determining whether there was a loss of ducks while the Mirror pond was drained. Some lovers of wildlife expressed a fear that the ducks would fly upstream and into the range of the guns of hunters.
Source: Bend Bulletin ©1941
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