The Arizona sentinel., 1885-05-09
The Mohawk Valley and Its
 Canal, Etc.

In addition to what we have al
 ready written about the Mohawk
 Valley and Canal, we reproduce
 the following from the "Pros-
 pectus of the Mohawk Valley
 Canal Company" recently issued
 from this office:
 "Wood for domestic purposes,
 such as mesquite, cotton wood,
 willow. etc., grows abundantly
 throughout the Mohawk Valley,
 and the screw bean tree also exists,
 the wood of which cannot be sur
 passed as fence posts, owing to the
 fact that it never decays in the
 soil nor is troubled by worms. Wells can be dug anywere upon
 the land if desired for domestic
 or other purposes.
 It is proposed, and work has al-
 ready been commenced thereon,
 to construct a canal for the pur- pose of irrigating the land of the Mohawk Valley, the water rights for which has been properly To- cated and is now owned by the Mohawk Valley Canal Company, company incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. The head of the canal is at Texas Hill, on the north bank of the Gila River, and the surface at the head gate lies between two hills of solid porphyry rock about two hundred and fifty feet apart, which ensures against any des> truction of the head of the canal by the action of the rivers cur rent. The depth of the water of the river at Texas Hill, at the lowest stage ever known, was four feet, and the river at this point was then one hundred feet in width. At it's highest stage the river, at tbe same place. is about fourteen feet in depth. and it is here confined between the two hills, above mentioned, on the north and high table lands on the south sides.
 Owing to the formation of the country no canal or ditch of any size can be taken out, on the north side of the river, for twenty miles up and down, except at this point, which fact secures to the company the only water right available for the irrigation of the lands of the Mohawk Valley, and this water right guarantees more than an abundant supply of water for all these lands.
 The water in the canal will come | to the surface three miles from | the head gate, and, as demonstra- ted by recent surveys made by an engineer of repute, the average dirt cutting for the first two miles will be about eleven feet, and for the third mile to grade about six feet. From this point to the end of the canal work will be of an ex- tremely easy and cheap nature. The entire length of the canal will be twenty miles, and it will be as recommended by the engi- near, twenty feet wide at the bot tom with a two to one slope. The canal will have a fall of two feet to the mile. The fall of the river at the head gate is six feet to the mile.
 The Mohawk Valley has all been surveyed by the Govern ment surveyors, and the Texas and Pacific Land Grant having been declared forfeited by Con- gress, there is now presented 10 the settler a compact body of as fine agricultural land as is known to the world. A small portion of this land has already been taken up under the Desert Land Act, but the vast majority of it Is still open for settlement. The valley has a natural slope for irrigation making the proba ble cost of construction of lateral within the reach of all.