Arizona republican., 1898-12-22
H GREAT RESERVOIR
A Million Acres Nay be Irrigated
 From an Arizona Plant.

| The Tacoma (WaSh LSdge- says:
 The greatest storage reservoir i1 the
 world is to be constructed in Ari:on5, Full information about this great work
 is contained in a report made by L. V. | Navarro, consul Of ti>7 Mexican gov 1 eTnment at Phoenix. in i1h oh h. says: 1 "It is estimated that enough water i is wasted from Salt river each W.nter
 tC amply ircigate 1000 900 acres in the
 Salt river valley throughout the year were the water properly d str butt d. It ! is proposed to store these wint CT fools, 10 be drawn from as needed during the
 summer months by constructing q
 grand reservoir in the mountains me sixty miles to the northeast Of Phcecix
 The project is very feasible from an engineering standpoint As it tcav- erses the mountains on it's way to the vall5y the Salt river passes through a grea5 basin in the mountains, which
 has but Cne Cutlst-the canyon Of the
 Salt river.
 ''The United States gove- -nmert has
 granted to the Hudson Reservoir &
 Canal company this basin, known as
 the Tonto basin to be used as a stcrag ga
 reservoir. The company bes com plC'-sd all its engineering work and plans and specification for the dam have just been completed. It proposa as
 to build a dam at thc head Of the can yon wher9 the river emerges from the basin, thus creating a lake which m II cOVe~ eighteen square miles to a depth Of 100 to 200 feet. It will be necssse.y y to build Q dam 200 feet high and some 600 fest in length at the tCp, although inc canyon is only 200 feet wide fer thu first 100 feet from the bct.cm. The territory of Arizona has granted the
 < !, 1,cE I1 4t.- Salt river in which 10 convey the water thus stored e the valley below, and the stored water will therefore be turned hack into the channel as needed and conveyed through the canyon fer dis tance Of thirty miles to the head of tae valley. where the first diverfng dam $ found.
 'Tc construct ttl's gr5at storage res erVCir, which wi.l bs the largest in tho world will cost ie is estmat-d ab-ue g, 300, 0G0 and the company is now ac- lively at work obtaining the necessary funds. It prCposcs to sell stGrsd wats- to the irrigating canal companies nov doing business in the valley, and it is said that tnes9 companies will be very wiling thus to augment the limited supply which they new have rca1y fer sale to farmers
 Some Of the canal companies lave already entered into such contracts with the reservoir company. Farmers now pay fcT water at the rate Of S1.25 t2 $2.25 an aero per annum, and the canal companies when they bsg n to furnish water from he TC7cCvCir Will charge the farmers an additional S1 i per acre in order 10 reimburse them selves for the outlay to the rCscrvCir It is said however, thlt the farmers will be willing 10 pay this ad- price, as the increased water supply will cnablo them t-r halvest double the amount Of their present crops. It will be ssen therefc-e, that when this immense undertaking has been accomplished Arizsna will have the greatest irrigation system in tie world. and the harvest of farm p-C dues S and fruits already abundant in the valley, will SC toward making this one Of the most prosperous regions Cn he globe