Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-12-03
rne l,n. Cree. s,,.,.,,se.

aoose .nterprse, which p..mises {.
 oec"me of more imi,or,suce ,o the com
 mnn',s than is realized hy tho msjorit, of people.
 Tho k,y,o tho enilre sy.iem i- q
 ,ian' oa Lynx ereck, closing rho outla,
 from bieelow Flat, This k d.,sisne,i le
 be bo feet high from heJtoek. hlt will only he oomplele.I to 43 feel ;n 1890
 IL Is 70 feet thick at fifty feet from the
 finished icp and, as the widest place where the bedrock Is deepest It reaches 4a feet in width; the lowest IT feet are entirely built oi Portland cement walls and Portland cement concrete, and the upper portion of Portland cement masonry walls (boih back and front) and lime concrete in between. It is built on the system employed by the Indian Empire in tlrr Irrigation Works, which are by far the largest in the world.
 Through the base of the dam Is built tunnel, in which S6.ineh pipe will be laid when all the work Ia finished. and the outflow controlled by large cast-iron gate at the back of the dam just outside the tunnel, where 1t can always he examined, and If necessary repaired. The water tbon flows down the creek bed for about one mile and q quarter, and Ia then directed into ditch and Hume (2o0o inches capaci.y) three miles in length, which deliver it to pressure box, giving working head st 270 feet above Lynx creek. From the pressure box S0-inch steel pipe will convey the water by means of distributors 22 inches, IS inches, F inches, and 9 inches diameter, to the hydraulic giants.
 Os the above described works, the dam IS carried ss high as is desirable for this year, the general practice being to allow concrete dams s 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 6 few pieces aggregatlng abou 100 feet. Half tie fluming is finished and the remainder Is under construction. There are 2,ol9 feet of fluming on the ditch line, and there will be ovsr l coo feet of sluioe boxes and steel Hume on the hydraulic works, for which grading is now under way, and part of the lun- Der on the ground.
 The ditch controls the whole of the western side and center Of Lonesome Valley, but Messrs. Pedley, and Barlow Masssicks intend to contine their atten ton 10 gold mining for the present, and will merely experiment. for the next few years before going into fruit raising on a large scale, with 8 cannery and to handle the produce. few hundred trees are expected to ar rive shortly to test the kinds aud va- rie.ies best suited to the soil and eli mate. It 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. nectsrines. walnuts, grapes. and cherries will pro- iuce excellently. Mr. Pedley has been Tor eleven years an officer :n the Irrigs- Iion Department of the Indian Empire, and had charge of an irrigation district of 10, 600 square miles in Sind, So that the laying out of the irrigat on scheme sill not bs lacking in experience.
 A co mfortsble stone house IS rapidly going up near the hydraulics, and a house and sleeping house for the m en will be run up very shortly, in addition to the old ranch house, and new 6ve-roomed dwelling which was ,rected this spring.
 Messrs. Pediey and Barlow. .Massicks have employed from 20 to 90 men ihroughuot the summer and autumn.and expect to keep from l5 10 10 through he winter, and to employ large ;orce next year. They have also purchased other mines in the neighborhood, and nave put into circulation in Prescott over slo0,0Oo. and con- an expenditure of at least that amount next year, ss they have the utmost confidence both in the mining and agricultural future of this part of he Territory, and intend to stay with t. These gentlemen have between them seen something of tho climate in Flu. rope, Asia, Africa and America, and both consider that, taking tue year round, the climate of Prescott cannot be beaten by any place on the face of the globe. The air is drier and not go onervating as Los Angeles in summer, and the actual temperature Is consid- erahly lower, particularly st night, and being dry heat it is far mo. easy to bear than tho damp heat at Redondo, Santa Monica or Los Angeles, and yet Ill these places are famous for their climate. In winter the cold, dry. bracing weather of Prescott IS what the white race of northern European de- scent require to enablo tbem to retain their vigorous characteristics and power of brain and body.
 The climate of Prescott strongly re- sembles that of Quetta (6,oOo feet above the sea). the great military camp on the northwest frontier of India. which, since the water supply has been placed in satisfactory condition, has rapidly become one of the healthiest stations occupied anywhere in the world by British troops, and as these latter range somewha. widely, that is significant. It must be taken into confederation, too, that some of the regiments move to