Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-11-17
WARMERS WORK.
An Immense Artificial Lake Created
 Near Tuc,oa.
It is 10 be iilied 1yith Carp. and its Waters Will Insure a Continually Fall Race
 For the Mn.

For the MIu
 Yesterday morning the CIrIzEN ioca accepted. En IpvItation to take nd,
 into the country with Mr. Robert Miller
 ot Warmers mil, and view the great
 work hat has been accomplished by tine
 Warner Brothers in the creating of an
 immense artificial lake in order To in-
 sure continually fall race for their
 mill, and also to afford a place for the
 breeding and rearing of carp.
 The drive was pleasant one away
 from the mud-walled houses of Tucson
 out across the Santa Cruz bottoms over l green fields and through groves of vii
 low and sycamore, past the ruins ot
 toe old church to Warmers mill. Here
 -dr. EphraIm Warner vas found busy experimenting run of four The mi
 Was managed last summer by Jeff Da- Venport, of Lafayette, Cal, who cleared between S4.UU0 and S5,UU0 out of lis
 summer's run. Through some of Dayeu- ports weakness of character he saved only a few hundred dollars, though It ls 1 seldom that better miller has ever located n Tucson. The mil has been thoroughly repaired, and IS now in { me condition. Is machinery Is moved by a turbine. The water Is | brought down lp the old Santa Cruz 1 ditch from Silver Lake and turned into 1 Warmers mil race. This latter Is about ! a half a mile n length and k substan- ! ual piece of work. It Is built of stone, and ID many places k cut through the sDlId rocky sides Uf Sentinel peak, around whose eastern edge It curves. ! A buggy drive extends along about half way, and will soon be extended the 1 .uli length of the race. The m Il has all he work II can do for long time t. come.
 One difficulty the Mes7rs Warner and Miller have ever experienced III running tLelr mlll has been to always have a constant and steady tall head of water ln the uIil Face. or a morning the race might be full and by noon have fallen couple of inches, caused by the distribution of water among the farmers
 n the valley above the mil by the gan J-rus. lhIs annoyance Tor awhile seemed Co be an obstacle they could not pOss. bly overcome. Inc farmers below rLe mill never gave any such occasion f trouble, for they use the water after It has passed through the race, and turned tue mill
 Mir. Solomon Warner had long ob- served tine cIeugRs or swampy lands be
 tween San Xavier and Tucson that r.IuEe The eastern s-Opes of the Tucson mount8iuE. He accordingly went to work quietly, and bought up sufficient land above SeutIne peak to assure hls purposes, and then commerce. hI5 great dam.
 Work was begun upon lt along the early part of last summer, but the hot season and other causes combined com pslled a temporary suspension ol the work. it wds resumed some four weeEs ago, and wlli be comp pleted in abont two more weeks.
 The dam begins at that point ou Sentinel peak where the mIllrace first ,ouches the mil, and runs for B quarter of Q mile along side of the race towards Silver Lake, ending at a point of ground sufficiently high to hold all the water needed. It vii be de enough for a l roadway on its too tJ connect with that 1 one by JEe mil race
 At tho hull is a bulk-head ten feet | Nite, and provided with strong gates to | let oU- ,le surplus waters m case of a | flood. The work of construction IS 1 simple iu l:s cnaracter, but massive and l extensive. At present SIX men with l scrapers are employed putting on the | iui-mag touches Co the dam.
 Ths result Of this biz dam has al- l ready been wonderful. The waters of | tue many springs of the different ciene- | gas Oa the Warner land have been held | back by ihe dam. and have risen ull 4 they have covered some twenty acres ot ! land, creating a sheet of water that IS beautIiul to look upOu. Already the | wild fowl have made lt their resuri, and ] an organization of hunters have Ob- taiued the exclusive right to shoot uprn l Its waters. A hlt-bottomed boat sails | over iss surface. The different kinds of | 5uck- killed there are the gray and | -po0nbIli, the green and red winged | Real, mGllari, canvass back, widgeou, spring tail, the butter and new Kind | never seen before called the fish duck. | It has saw shaped teeth. The snipe. | gUrieV and pioyCf appear abundRntly.
 When the dam Is completed and the l waters have occupied al their space. abuu. fifty acres wln be covered. it is l tee. intention to buiid a miniature Cliff | house, as popular summer resort for I boat riding, pleasure, drives, hunting, ! etc None of the water of this big Id | comes tT,u the santa Cruz river. l. is | all from the land owned by MT. Warner, i and tle economical measures be | has taken f. save this water for his own l use first, and after that for the farmers l below him i5 to be commended. IL will | cause more land than ever below the l mill to be cultivated because more l water can be procured. The waters of l the Sauta Cruz river still flow m the l old 5itcu- u1distUrbed by this | new and great improvement by MT. War ! uer.
 Tn answer to question as to the feas- 1 I' ility of submerged dam across the 1 santa Cruz to save It's seepage water Mr. " rner gave some valuable lnforma- on. lie has lived here since 1856, and l has explored the vicinity of Tucson l thoroughly. It is his opinion that a large volume of water finds its way to the ocean through the Santa Cr1z. In ! sacI he IS inclined tO the belief that it might ba a body of water as large as tine ! Gila and Salt or nearly as large as the l Colorado. The water course Ct the ] santa gruZ can be traced tO its cCunec- ! 'l0n with the GIla near MaricOpa. He l has often thought of the question of l submerged dam. and has picked upon a l point near San Xavier where the river l bed runs between two hills that ] a concrete dam could be put across ! and every drop of seepaZe saved. When l ,t is done. in his opinion all he table l land south ot lucson will at once be | utilized.
 l. .s the intention to stock the War l rer pond with carp. Experiments made l Dear MaricuUa with tIIs fish have proved 1 .o be emiuently successful. Correspond ! ence is BOW being had with the Fish 1 Commissioners iu order to pr cure a stock. and in few weeks or months at least the pond may be expected to te ] teprllng with valuable fish.
 The reporter came away from the dam. pond and mIllrace greatly lm- | pressed with the Importance of the work 1 and tue great benefit that 1t will do. 1 When passing through the Territory l nearly three years ago e superficial rIance seemed to make II an irreclalma- hle desert. Now it appears that only tae toil and genius of man IS needed to literally cause the desert to rejoice and the wilderness to blossom Hs the rose,
 "Resonrces Of Arizona"
 The second edition, enlarged and H. 1
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