The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-02

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NumherS 10000
Number 6S,O93 "
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The Horseshoe Reservoir is located on
the Verde River about fifty-tive miles
northeast OF Phoenix, at an elevation OF
about two thousand feet above sea level.
Its capacity on initial construction (now
contracted for), is about two hundred ana
five thousand acre feet.
The storage of the Horseshoe Reservoir,
added TO thr natural flow of the river, will
provide sufficient water for the first two
hundred and fifty thousand acres of land
irrigated on initial construction. This
location will hold the largest amount of
water. with the least cost for construction
and maintenance, and will therefore be
first constructed.
The diversion dam, head-gates, head of
canal and spill-way are located in Section
II. Township S North Range 7, east, about
u. &c
Phoenix. in a narrow, granite walled
CANYON The ends, or abutments, and
the bed of the dam viii be solid granite
rock in place of which material the dam
will be constructed. The head of canal,
head-gates and spill-ways will be cut into
the granite ledge, insuring permanence
and safety.
The main canal as located is 140 miles
long. Section one, from the heat gates
to New River, sixty-nine miles; section
two. from New River to the seventy foot
fall on the east flank of the White Tank
mountains is twenty nine and four tenths
miles: section three, from the foot OF
White Tank falls to the west end of loca-
ton, forty-tw miles.
ONLY the first and second sections are
now contracted for and will be built on
initial construction.
The canal is located and estimated Tor
initial construction, with carrying ca
pacty of $50 cubic feet of water for each
second of time when in medium order:
but in good order it will carry fully 95t
cubic feet per second, and if necessary il
can be filled one foot higher with perfect
safety, when it will carry 1860 cubic feet
per second, when in medium order, and
nearly 1900 cubic feet per second when in
good order.
Ii run to its full capacity it can carry
103, $50. 600 cubic feet of water each TWEEN
i frllx IN ~.
feet of water on the land for thorough
winter or spring soaking during floods
without drawing on the storage, and at
normal capacity it can carry and put on
all Of the go, 900 acres covered by initial
construction, which will in any one year
use water, nearly one-fourth OF an acre
foot per month for each acre, or three
inches in depth each month over the
whole waterconsuming area, and this is
more than sufficient for any purpose.
The canal will be so constructed that its
carrying capacity can be greatly increased
at little additional cost.
In all preliminary work the manage
ment have been content to make haste
slowly"
More than two years have been spent in
making surveys ON various possible lines,
locations and plans, and in the eXamlna-
ton and careful study of the extent, rain
fall and topography of all tributary wa
ter sheds % the location, capacity. and
comparative cost of available storage ioca-
tions, and in determining all material
local conditions affecting the cost OF con-
struction and the efficiency and perma-
nency of the system And upon final
location surveys and perfected plans, the
cost has been reduced to the minimum,
while the highest degree OF efficiency and
absolute safety is secured
These studies have boon conducted and
the final location surveys for construction
made, upon the matured and perfected
plans, and under the able direction and
personal supervision of Donald W. Camp
bell, ESD, OF the firm OF Campbell IL
Anderson of Denver, Colo, who is well
known in both Europe and America as a
most able and experienced, as well as con-
scicntious and conservative engineer.
The first and second sections of the
canal will cover over so, 600 acres, of
which fully 50, 600 acres are tirst-class ag-
ricultural lands. 1t is of much greater
value, however, for the cultivation of the
high-priced semi-tropic fruits, to which
use 1t will be largely devoted
1t is difficult to describe this land to the
rain-belt farmer. Nothing like or similar
to it is to be found east of the main range
of the Rocky Mountains.
The detritus from ares of mountain
disintegration has filed the ancient val
levs and made or built up the millions of
acres of gently sloping table or mesa