New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-24

OWNED Is NLW.EuEH

The dam on Ila..,famrl Etcr. when i1d been
ruI. he'd for about eighteen months. "a- llo l'' -'
40 feet id. at tho top aud IL, feet "d' ai e h't
tom With thiriy f."t of OF "b1chln-. ""iN "h I N''
begun early l--1. Every pound OF r'" u.'' .i -'
construction wa, blasted from o." sides of u' granite
canon the outlet of which 10 .Irnci. Ih" d'" wa
tcu feet thick 40 the top, the Thickness in'rra-"- WIN
IT, descent II, wall, wen. massive granite blocks,
land laid while thc space between the walls had been
carefully filed u with smaller stones. Cement hru-
unavailable there only two dam, ot e"hd mn-'h'
nm All flat region. the ~ycctWatcr and Bear Valley
dam. m California the whole water face ot thr his
dam including the top. va, covered with % double
apron or skin. of Tire" inch plank. Iucd NIih t'iIto
lolt.ne clllcd and painted with waterproof paint At
il,. bottom of the dam va, gate. "a, feet and az
the top t. the right Of the great trloiurc waste
weir originally 4OAG feet. but recently enlarged 10
iO,- feet had been cut Ia the .old rock of the c"n
with grade of one foot iu thrc". The lake formed h'
th, dam covered about go acres, wa ordinarily 10"
feet Jocp and contained according 10 a Late cll,ult
ton 5000. 100000 cubic feet OF water. 1t ec'n' in
po..blc that the great dam could have been 'hcd
Il the gate and wa,tcwci had been open. The Has
ayanua. IN summer practically dry. with the winter
rains and the melting SNOW b,cOmce u raslut tprWnt
and this winter has been exceptionally stormy III
Arizona. a. wcH in California. The water SLED OF
the Ila-,ayampa embraces 800 square miles ol steep
mountains. extending all the way from Prescott Even
and II H. supposed that grcrt quantity OF them were
.vcp down into the lake and allowed 10 form jam
ai the mouth Of the waste weir, forcing the iinpro
on~I and swiftly swelling water, over the top o the
dam where they worked their way beneath the apron
Of heavy plankng. and burrowcd out the stone work
beneath il.
Fifteen miles south of this dam WAS the dycrtmg
dam Of the same company. II ro't twenty seven
feet from tho bed OF the creek, and was about 40
feet wide at the top This DAM ths construction Of
which wa, similar 10 that Ol the upper dam. except
that II had no waterproof shin oi pltnhiug on IT.
top .nrllcc had also pltc jA1 feet a. the bottom
ln the centre of the upper part a wd't"-"eir had
been built. sixty feet wide 10y ,N feet high, 80 that
thc surface of the lake was always six feet from the
top Of the dam Thi, structure was only recently
nnl-hcd. .
usual way. was i've miles long, extending from the
lower or diNcrtlng dam TO The main tract oi placer
ground. On Christina, Day three milcs OF the Hume
had been c0mplctcl the men wording away from the
J,rn tnv.urd thc placer ground. II /, unlikely That
auy part of the hume has been carried away, aS II
ran from twenty seven to 200 feet above the bod oi
the crcch aud nowhere crossed IT,
Wichcnburg concerning the safety of which " grave
fear, are entertained" Wa- once a mining town ol
some .izc: hut several year, ago It, citizen, migrated
to NuluTc city, dozen miles away, and t0dN the
town contains only one or TWO 'iuIIc'' ana j.
merely changing place for the hor,c, of the stage
coach. The place /, twenty miles below lhr 'ihiH
dam. and stands high on the bank that II l.
extremely Improbable that the nood could have done
any damage To it. Below Wickcnburg the valley
is wild and uninhahcd all the to the ella River.
nf;y or sixty mile, At Chr>tin1, the niue COZ
onv of nfty or sixty worhmcn were making their head
where several building. ihd been erected i9't ~, .
hou-c.. ,A9o c,r y. n',mr ~" & ",t,oN uLn r,t h
place open night aud day. II b. probable tlht sln'o
that time the colony may have moved inTthcr cow
have been awake and ont Of doors at m and must
have known that the water above was perilousy sh'