The Arizona sentinel., 1895-05-11

leading attorney of New York, who : has just completed arrangements for building an enormous reservoir
 and canal in Arizona, and extend
 ing a railroad there, is at the Bald
 win. MT. Hendershott has been in
 Arizona long time, and has done
 a great deal of work in connection
 with the two enterprises. The site
 of the reservoir IS on Salt river, in
 the Tonto Basin, Gila county. It is proposed to raise dam 200 feet high at the mouth of a huge box canyon in the river. This accord ing to g, report of General Greedy
 to the war department, will back the water up for sixteen miles, and for two miles back of the dam 1t will be 180 feet deep. Altogether it will impound, according to Gree ly, over 13,OO0,OOO cubic feet of water, making it the greatest reser- voir in the United States.
 "The system of irrigation, with it's reservoir and canals" said Colonel Hendershott, twill bring under cultivation 100000 acres in the Salt river valley. The main canal will commence l,200 feet above the mouth of the intersection of the Verde with the Salt and Gila valleys to the Colorado river in Yuma county. The surveys have been very extensive and have cost $25, 900.
 "As to the land, it is all desert, and as flat as a floor. It Is worth nothing as it is, but with water it will produce six crops of alfalfa in year, two kinds of grain and all the kinds of fruit you can think of, such as oranges, lemons, grapes, nectarines, pomegranates, softshell almonds, walnuts and small fruits.
 we have an abundance of money behind us, and I expect to let a $25O,OOO contract in 6 few days. We are already the posses sors of the old Arizona Central railroad, on which $550,G00 has been expended, and we expect to extend it to Salt Lake. We hope to connect it with the proposed San Joaquin Valley railroad, and thus get north and south outlet, which will enable Us to cut across three or four transcontinental roads, and altogether, develop flourish ing business. This road is already built and in operation for fifteen miles south of Flagstaff, and twenty miles more are graded and the ties laid ready for the iron. Tie road will run from Salt Lake as far south as Nogales; another line starting from the base of the Super stition mountain reaching the re- servoir dam will follow the bank of l the canal to Yuma. Surveys have been made and rights of way pro- cured for nearly the full length of 1 the road.
 'Thereis one curious thing about the route ard the desert. Start ing from Flagstaff the read will 1 reach a strange forest of gigantic pine trees which is eighty miles long, while all around it from 300 to l 500 miles in every direction, there is not 3 particle of wood anywhere. It is literally an island of timber in the desert. The road will also reach the copper districts of Globe and other places. The canal, open ing mp the plains, will cause steadi ly increasing population there"
 Colonel Hendershott says there is almost no game on the desert. It is vast expanse of land in which, like the great barren land of the far north, it's silence is oppressive. It is the Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company with some $6,0OO,- GOO of capital, that proposes to change all this and make it habita- ble. Colonel Hendershott expects to let a large contract while here.- San Francisco Examiner.
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