The Winslow mail., 1898-07-30
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river, about three miles southeast of
Winslow to the summit of the Aztec
Mountains, some sixty miles southwest
of Winslow. The fall of the canyon is
very gradual. 1t carries the drainage
from Hay Lake and probably so square
miles Of additional area, that consti-
tutes the water shed of the east fork or
main canyon above the point at which
the Hay Lake drainage is discharged
This canyon is the natural water way
for the run-off from an estimated water
shed Of $50 square miles"
He also says: "The water impounded
in reservoir at Hay Lake would be of
excellent quality for engine and domes-
! tic purposes, and no doubt can be con.
veyed through Jacks Canyon to Wins
low."
A Colorado engineer of long expe-
rience in storage enterprises, says of
Hay Lake: "The conditions are quite
favorable to cheap construction, there
being an ample supply of the best ma
terial in the immediate vicinity, the
bed of the lake being composed of the
best alluvial deposit. It would seem
that the lake is about 2la miles long by
21a miles wide, giving an area of 1000
acres, which at the extreme depth of 90
feet would represent $4,000 acre feet.
The basin is comparatively fiat and the
slopes of the enclosing banks are rath-
er sharp, and should incline to the
opinion that at least 10000 scre feet can
be impounded here. There would seem
to be little doubt OF the possibility Of
filing it. My information as to the
water shed drained into it is not of the
best, but from my researches in that
line. ascertain that there is about 100
square miles of drainage area above
that basin. This seems mostly to be
heavily timbered, and during the win
ter to receive heavy precipitation in
the form of snow, while it is also liable
annually to severe rain storms. From
Canyon Diablo supplemental supply
of at least as much more can be OBJ
tained, as the water shed of that drain
age channel has about the same area,
and apart from that, there is every evi-
dence along the canyon that large
bodies of water are occasionally trans
ported"
A consulting engineer of national
reputation in California, who has ex-
amined the potentialities of all the
streams in this vicinity, says: "There is
no doubt whatever that the water sup
ply of Jacks Canyon may be more
cheaply and readily developed than any
other, and that it is more desira BILE to
begin the work of development on that
stream because it affords the only real
site in this entire region of country, so
far as can ascertain, at an elevation
commanding all the arabic lands sur
rounding the town of Winslow. The
Hay Lake reservoir, from its command
ing position, is the key to the situation
and one which should first be used to
unlock the latent possibilities of the
lands surrounding the town. The quail
ity of the water stored in Hay Lake is
of marked excellence, being soft, pure
mountain water"
If we may judge the future by the
past, the closest estimate of our towns
future with the Hay Lake water sys-
tenn in successful operation) growth,
would be obtained by study Of the
changes wrought through the medium
/ of an abundant water supply, during
the past six or eight years in the Salt
River Valley in our own territory, in
the Pecos Valley in New Mexico and in