Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-10
REAVIS AND HIS MILLIONS.

According to a Santa Fe dispatch of
 July 31, Reavis is still figuring on inn
 mensities. He claims to have the
 Buttes, on the Gila above Florence, To-
 cated md what he proposes to do can be
 learned from the following excerpt from
 snid dispatch. It says:
 Millions of dollars roll off the tongue
 of James Addison Reavis as easily as
 millions of acres. When the Casa Blan-
 ca Improvement Company has carried
 out the plans ID full It will have invest
 ed S20,0O0, ,00O and will have $500, ,OOO,-
 GOO profits from water rights, aad will
 have an income of S35,000,00O from
 water rents. The water right is sold
 once for all. The water rent is collect ed annually.
 The Gils River Butte dam will create
 a reservoir covering 100 square miles of
 territory. It will cost g, 7,5c8. The reservoirs capacity will be 251 ,537, ,S73, 100 cubic feet, or, 5,774 ,515 acre feet.
 In irrigation water is measured by acre feet. An acre foot of water means enough water to cover Bn acre one foot in cepth. The 5,774, ,5l5 acre feet in this reservoir, therefore, would spread water one foot deep over 5.774,51 acres.
 The second dam of his system Reavis calls the San Carlos. It is to be 300 feet high, and will extend only S6 feet across natural gorge, costing s, lS0,- OI3. The conditions are so favorable that the San Carlos dam will back up water over POT square miles of territory, and will hold SG4,554, 432,O0 cubic feet, or l9, 9,7O0,000 acre feet of water.
 The GIla River Buttes and the San Carlos dams are on the Gila rIver. The third dam of the system is on the Salt river, and will create what Resvis calls the TOnto basin. This dam will be 450 feet high. It will cost S3,654, 922, 19, and will contain 9S9, ,600 coo GOO cubic feet. or 22, rocco acre feet of water This re- servOlr will cover 135 square miles.
 The Casa Grande Improvement Com pany expects to irrigate millions of acres ln eastern and southern Arizona, and also tC extend its canals and supply into | the state of Sonora. Its reservoirs will drain three mountain ranges-the Mo- | yollons, the White and the Piual-an extoat Of not less than 10000 squaTe | miles, part of 1t we'll tim bered, where | he snow collects fifteen to twenty feet | ieep. It will take tunnel 1000 feet | oDg, about three miles, to convey the | water from the Ionto Basin 10 the place where 1t is wanted for irrigation.
 Apparently deserted by his former friends O. wealth and influence, Reavis ,alks with enthusiasm of this grand | scheme. He realizes how difficult it will | % to appeal to capital after his trouble with the United States government over he Peralta claim. He has arranged to begin mOdestly, but with the whole plan n view just as outlined. The Gila River 1uttes dam is the key. Reavis will be- ,in work on that. He will lay the foun- lstion of dam to be 330 feet high, when finished. But be will build only D feet of it to begin with. On this leight he will be able to deliver water or irrigation.
 "An investment of s50,0OO is all that s necessary said Reavis, as he rolled ID his blue prints. "That amount will aise the dam 5 feet and enable the company to commence to deliver water After that ths income will raise the ian to 330 feet, extend the system and urnlsh the means to construct the oth- IT dams."
 That is to say, with cash capital of ;J0, 900 Resvis has figured out an in- -estment of S2O,nO0,0OO and a profit of 5O0.000. He talks as if he thoroughly believes what he is saying. No wonder ie gays he has got bigger thing than he Barony of Arizona.