Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-12-20

there is even more water than that Engineer Barry has measured tn
 water in the river at this pointsssev eral times and by him we are favor
 ed with the results of his last meas
 urement some time since when the
 water was as low as it usually be.
 comes He found the river to be 11i
 feet wide and for one half of thai
 distance the water was HE fee
 deep and flowing at the rate of no
 less than five miles per hour.
 A little figuring will satisfy those
 who care to follow the matter that the statement made above is within the facts of the case when the river is at its lowest point.
 The canal will be 30 feet wide on the bottom throughout most of its distance and we will presume that it will carry six feet of water-it is cer~ tain.y not expected that it will carry more than this-it would then carry 234 cubic feet of water or one Inch in length of the canal would carry 33,696 cubic inches of water.
 One half the width of the river we will put al 55 feet which distance the water was found to be 111s feet deep. For convenience and security of the estimate we make it at 10 feet in depth. This part of the river would then be carrying $50 cubic feet of water or very nearly two and one third times as much water as the canal. But there is yet 55 feet more in the breadth of the river unestimated which 1t is fair to estimate shoals from it's inner side where it is 10 feet to the bank and would therefore carry about half as much water as the portion already estimated or 275 cubic feet of water or more than enough of itself to fill the canal, or more accurately, over one and one sixth times as much as the canal will require.
 To summarize the canal carries 234 cubic feet of water, the river, at the point where the canal is taken out, carries 825 cubic feet or about 31s times as much as the canal re- quires. And there is yet another element which controls largely the amount of water that will be taken out as compared with that in the river, the gradient or slope of the canal which is about two feet to the mile, as compared with the gra, d;cnt of the river, which is about nine feet to the mile along this section for several miles. We will not enter into the estimates on this point as any one will per> ceive at once that vastly more water will flow down 234 cubic feet of the channel of the river than would flow down the canal. The matter needs no further demonstration These facts, which are carefully kept within their limits rather than beIng forced beyoud them, ought to be sufficient to convince anyone that there is water sufficient and to spare
 We have space in this article to touch briefly on but one other point but which, having the water, is of the most importance of all; we all Jude to the fall in the canal of twen> ty~five feet where it is brought over the divide some eight miles above town. A body of water of the size carried in the canal falling that dis tance will furnish a power, which, as we have heard it expressed, will be worth more than the cost of the canal, and we believe this is no ex> aggeration. What visions of quartz mills, cotton factories wooden facto- ries, sugar mills and grist mills rise with the thought. Nor are they merely visions. The next ten years will see some of them, possibly all of them, live, prosperous, enterprise ing realities filling our valley aud all Central Arizona with the hum of industry and the busy whirl of one of the most important producing and manufacturing centers of the great southwest. We are not pro- phetic, not being the son O. a proph> ct; we have seen enough of the dulls ness, coldness, and faithlessness of the world not to grow enthusiastic over anything. We see what we see in this matter as bare cold facts that no man who will allow his common sense to lead him. seeing, will fail to recognize. Work it will cost