Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-01

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 IN DESCRIPTION OF THE DAM
 The dam of the Walnut Grove Water Storage Company was one Of the four largest dams on the Western Continent used for water storage purposes, and i'm 1 pounded over four thousand millions oi 2 Hons of water, the reservoir 1t formed covering over seven hundred and fifty acres and drained an immense basin of about five hundred square miles. The dimensions of the dam were 400 feet 1T Iengl h on top and I75 feet on ,he bot tom; 1t was I25 feet thick at bed 70 k and ten f-et thIck at the crest and no feet high, twenty feet higher than ar, other one of the four great dams abav ! alluded 70; it however impounded he least water of any of them. The dan was situated on the upper Hassayamp twenty miles southwest Of Prescott, and nInety-hve mics west of north fr m Phe oix, by way of Vumre aad Wicken6erg.
 Its construction was conceived by the Bates Brothers, men of large bushes experience. In 1880 a company was formed in New York Sn wn l, the Wa nut Grove Water S,o.ag- Company ano constructIon was begun ip August of he same year, under ,he direeuon If Prof Blake, Of New Haven, Conn.,, he con tract being let to Messrs. N4gle & Leon ard, of Sin Francisco, who completed the work early in 1888. The dam had a very solid construction and was thought to be impregnable to any force that might be brought 10 bear against it. Practically 1t was composed of two stone walls, the one on the reservoir side being twelve feet thick on the bottom and six feet thick at the top, hand laid, of heavy rough rock in dry masonry. The wall on the down stream side of the dam was fifteen feet thick at the bottom and nine feet at the top; the space between these walls was filled with loose rock. To prevent leakage the front of the dam, or side next the reservoir, was faced up by double apron of three-inch plank, lined with felt, calked and painted with water proof paint. so that the dam was water tight Cut through the rock at one end was the waste weir, originally twenty five feet wide and five feet deep, but this had recently been widened to thirty-6ve feet and made about eight feet deep The dam was not intended for an over flow dam at any time. At the bottom of the dam, at each end, was flushing gate and the servIce gate, fifteen feet from the bottom, from which extended two twenty-inch pipes that passed through the dam and were closed by heavy cast iron gate valves below the dam. Dur ing the winter the gates have been ire quently opened and the water drawn off, at one tune lowering the reservoir as much as eight feet, for the purpose of making storage room to provide for rains
 The dam was intended to provide water for the working of large area of rich placer mining lands below and for the irrigation of about I, ,5oo,ooo acres of agricultural lands, than which there are none richer in the Territory when water IS turned upon them.
 Al distance of seventeen miles below the main dam, What was known as the flower dam" was in process of construc- lion across the narrow canyon at the time of the disaster, aod it was at this place that the greatest loss of life oc- cured. The construction Of this dam was similar to that of the main dam ana 1t had reached height of about thirty feet and was, of course, Tn an unfinished condition.