The Arizona sentinel., 1895-02-09
THE COLORADO RIVER WilI IBe Used to Generate
 Power and Electricity.
Am Interesting Letter,

Editor World: While on trip
 up the Colorado river. not long
 since, on the steamer Mohave, that
 veteran river man and superintend-
 ent of steamers for thirty-six years
 on that stream, Capt. I, Polhanfus,
 pointed out to me, several points
 that had been selected as the head
 gates of the great Yuma irrigating
 canals, the two at Pot Holes, one
 the place selected for the great
 canal from there to the New River
 Valley of million acres in San
 Diego county. The second, that
 recently located by exResident
 Engineer Hawgood, of the s. P. R.
 R. Co.,, for an English company. Another was Geo. w. Nerton's
 rock, just below Castle Dome, where he intended to take out the water and irrigate all the country east and south of Yuma. The fourth was at Hinton's Rock, just below Eureka canyon where the English Co, under Maj. Buchanan Scott of the Royal Engineers of the English army proposed to start their system of great steel pipes, eleven feet in diameter, with which to supply the same vast and fertile Yuma county, as that pro- posed by engineer Norton. The fifth was another point at the mouth of Eurlka canyon which the Redwood Beatty combine had selected.
 Hinton's Rock was the first place examined by the electrical .engi-s neers, as place that might be used for putting in a wheel for the purpose of running a dynamo for manufacturing electricity by the current of the Colorado, for power and light to be used in mining, hauling and milling the ores ofthe great mining belts that begin on the river banks at the mouth of Eureka Canyon, that on the east or Arizona side being silver, while that on the Picacho or California side Is gold, the mines on either side coming down in places to with in 100 feet of the river. At Eureka Rocks, just above Hinton's Capt. Polhamus called my atten- ton to the second place examined by the electric engineers. At Swain's Mill site, just below Pica- cho, half 8 mile, was the third, all three good. At Barrier Rocks, two miles above Picacho, and half way to Norton's, was the fourth place and the chief of all. On the crest of one of the grand piers built by nature, out in the river, stood 8 tall pole from which foated white banner that can be seen for miles. At the foot of the pole was a box, placed on a monument of stones, containing the notice of a location of mill site for an electric plant.
 While we pronounced the other locations all good, yet this capped the climax. As we went up the river we saw dozen other good places, but nothing to be compared with that at Barrier Rocks. Here are three channels 60 to 125 feet in width, neither of which are ever dry, the water always being from 50 to no feet wide and from six to ten feet deep, with a current at the lowest stage of the river of from three and one half to five miles per hour. The sides of each are lined with solid rocks. On each side of each channel nature. in her lavish magnifcence, has reared grand piers from 35 to 75 feet in height, built out of the solid porphry and granite, frm~as the eternal hills to which they are fastened. These piers only need leveling down a little-smoothing orldressing up to fit the great pillar blocks that will rest on them, and they are ready for the purpose which nature de-