Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-13
Tine Lynx Creek Enterprise
Prescott JournaI-aIiner

above enterprise, which promises to be- come of more importance to the community than is realized by the majority of peo- pie
 The key to the entire system is a dam on Lynx creek, closing the outlet from Bigelow Flat This is designed to be 65 feet high from bedrock, but will only be completed to 43 feet in 1880 1t is 30 feet thick at fifty feet from the finished top. and, at the widest place where the bedrock is deepest, 1t reaches 45 feet in width; the lowest + feet are entirely built of Portland cement walls and Port land cement concrete, and the upper DOT ton of Portland cement masonry walls both back and front and lime concrete in between. Itis a builton the system employ ed the Indian Empire in their Irrigation Works, which are by far the largest in world.
 Through the base of the dam is built a tunnel, in which a 36-inch pipe will be laid when all the work is finished. and the outflow controlled by a large cast iron gate at the back of the dam just out side the tunnel. where 1t can always be examined, and If necessary repaired. The water then flows down the creek bed for about one mile and a quarter and is then
 
 inches capacity three miles ill length which delivers it to pressed box, giving a working head at 270 feet above Lynx creek. From the pressure box 30-inch steel pipe will convey the water by means of distributors 22 inches, Is inches, F inches, and inches diameter, to the hy- draulic giants.
 Of the above described works, the dam Is carried as high as Is desirable for this year, the general practice being to allow concrete dams full year to set before the upper portion IS put on. The iron gate Is on the ground and ready to go in, but the pipe has not yet come. The ditch Is finished except few pieces aggregat ing about 400 feet. Half the huming is finished and the remainder Is under con- struction. There are 2,0l9 feet of fun ing on the ditch line, and there will be over 1000 feet of slUice boxes and steel Hume on the hydraulic works for which grading Is TOW under way, and part of the lumber on the ground.
 l The ditch controls the whole of the western side and center of Lonsome Val ! ley, but Messrs. Pedley, and Barlow i Massicks intend to confine their atten- ! ton to gold mining for the present, and i will merely experiment for the next few l years before going into fruit raising on a i large scale with a cannery and evapora- | tor to handle produce; few hundred trees are expected arrive shortly to test the l kinds and varieties best suited to the soil and climate. 1t Is already well proven that peaches thrive and bear we'll the fruit being above the average in flavor ! There seems good reason to believe that apples, prunes. apricots, nectarines, wal ! f.bn tl11ae excellently. MT. Pedley has been for eleven years an officer in the Irrigation Department of the Indian Empire, and had charge of an irrigation district ol 10000 square miles in Sind, so that the laying out of irrigation on the scheme vii not be lacking in experience.
 A comfortable stone house is rapidly going up near the hydraulics, and . boarding house and sleeping house fol the men will be run up very shortly. II addition to the old ranch house, and { new iye-roomed dwelling which wa, erected this spring.
 Messrs. Pedley and Barlow Massick, have employed from 80 to 90 mel throughout the summer and autumn and expect to keep from 15 to 40 througl the winter. and to employ a large force next year. They have also purchased ! other IfIiues S1z- l5ari1oods. anI have put into circulation in Prescott con siderably over $100000, and contemplate an expenditure of at least that amoun next year, as they have the utmost con fidance both i'll mining and agriculture future of this part of the Territory. and intend to stay with 1t. These gentlemen have between them seen something of tho climate in Europe, Asia, Africa and Amer ica, and both consider that. taking tho year round, the climate of Prescott can not be beaten by any place on the face O
 the globe. The air Is dryer and not SC enervating as Los Angeles in summer
 and the actual temperature Is consider
 bly lower, particularly at night, and being
 a dry heat it is far more easy to bea than the damp heat at Redondo, Sant;
 Monica or Los Angeles, and yet all thes
 places are famous for their climate. Il winter the cold, dry, bTacing weather o Prescott is what the white race of north ern European descent require to enabl them to retain their vigorous character : istics and power of brain and body. : The climate of Prescott strongly re sembles that of Quetta (6,000 feet abov the seal, the great military camp on tn
 northwest frontier of India, which, sine : the water supply has been placed i
 satisfactory condition, has rapidly be : come one of the healthiest stations oc } oupied anywhere in the world by Britis troops, and as these latter range some l what widely, that is significant. It mus 7 be taken into consideration, too, tha some of the regiments move to Quett
 from unhealthy stations in plains (
 India, and carry many sick with then
 Moreover, many of the native troops ar
 quite unaccustomed to the sharp, col f of winter, and some died of pneumonia, f lung disease. And yet, in spite of thes . drawbacks. the percentage in hospital , small in Quetta.