Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-09-03
SOUTH CHA CANAL.
A Grand Irrigating Project-161,O 900 Acres of Agricultural Land Under the Influence of 75 Miles of Ir- rigating Canats-A Greet
 Project CaI ried on Quiet
 ly in Yuma County.

Iu describing this great enterprise
 correctly it would bs necessary for one
 to see and examine the surroundings
 and work already done to get an ac-
 curate idea of wbat an expenditure 1t
 required tO bring this vast undertaking
 to successful ard practical usage upon
 land wLere the stranger never dreamsd
 of seeing gardens, vineyards and fields
 in full groGth aud bsariue and under
 most sfillful cultivation. This canal
 starts at the Oatman canyon in Yuma
 county near ths stItion known as Chrys-
 tOval.
 The canal is 80 feet wide on the bot
 tom, has feet depth of water and is
 ten miles in length when it reaches the
 railroad from the liver. It crosses tho
 railroad track and again the second time crosses the railroad track 215 miles east
 of Aztec and third time it crosses the
 railroad 24 of mile from Aztec, then
 runs southeast 15 miles up and around
 the valley, then runs 8 trifis northwest following the base of the Mohawk VaI~ ley giving I0,O00 south of the railroad
 under the canal and 9l, GOO acres north of the railroad making a total of 16l, 900 acres. The Southern Pacific railroad runs through 20 miles of this land. There IS ! large portion of this land mes land, whilst tt the north side of the trGcK the river bottom lands have already in oper- atiOn 221S miles of Canal Thus we find railroad traveTsing the entire length of these l6l 900 acres subject 10 irriga- tion and the farthest point from the railroad in this scope of land would be b miles, that IS the ranch that is sItu- ated on the extreme Outskirt of this acreage woCld be 15 miles from the sta tlOn. This caral company has 13 miles | of continuous reservoir II feet of water | depth to draw from covering 900 acres. ] The length of the canal to Mohawk | summit is 65 miles and total cana! | length to the river of 75 miles One cf | the features and most prominent one of the designs of the company IS to | build dam no feet high holding in rs- serve a volume of water covering 10000 | aCres of space. This dam was the one so urgeLt y recommended by the citi- z' ns' committee two years ago ia Yum Where the dam i' to be constructed nature has so placed t3e typographical formaii)n of the country as to furnish the mat 'rial and ald the e nstrucuOn to a great degree nasmuch as the earth in that immt sts weir ity Is lava covered to depth of 10 to 40fee'.
 All this agricultural lard lying along tue canal i5 government land. The canal company sells water rights on the following reasonable terms: S25 per acre; say one dollar casa and hs balance m b years. Tbs enterprise alone com bit e1 with others that are making slmI- lar headway in ArIz0na speaks volumes In bt h If of a march of prCgr ress that Arizona Is assuming that viii attract to her z. nial cnms the man ot wealth and the man of toll to combine in ourn,sh- ug up her crude wealth to a degree of OrillIant success. Connected with this project is Mr. O. F. Thornton. The ,hi-f engireer is Mr F. P. McCray; Col. B. $. Church, Of New York, IS con- ;uiting ergine+r. The company has llso two assistant engineers.