Arizona republican., 1900-08-21

ed in Mesa city that there was a fifty foot break In the Consolidated dam. The news spread like flooding water. The excitement grew intense. In a few minutes the telephone wirea We're red hot with questions. curses, suggestions and lamentations. Mr. Code and MT. Trott for a few minutes were compelled to let the water go as it would until a few bowling sufferers could be queted. Presently, like a distinct peal of ;hun- der from a general roar w. J. .LeiBar n $ voice was heard talking over the wire
 to some place in space. Wake up, Get out with teams! Need 500 men and teams, l will raise five hundred more, Fifty-foot break In dam! Water going by like Colorado! Am waiting to hear from Code" A half an hour after ward there gathered around MT. Cod = office what seemed to be an army of fire bugs. Grrigators with lanterns, anxious canal directors and ranch IFS from lower ends. all with lanterns. Some wanted to know how long the head would stay up. Wndld it stay up long enough to put water on two lands at the same time? If a corn crop was put in with present water. would there be enough next month to assure the crop? The lower end men Wan.ed t1 know if the river would stay up long enough to give them water, The directors wished to know if the report about the break was true. If it was they would have 10000 men and teams on the dam in fifteen minutes. Mr. Codes reply to all these questions was that there was O. 900 inches in the Consolidated canal and =, ;-;,, Ia Ina hoped there would be water enough to keep eaple working night and day for a genc ration. When these people Were all puieted the canal men had the rest uf the night to themselves. T. F. Pome- roy, acting superintendent of the High land. was stepping high all over
 country tast of Mesa, g egting people ready for a run" From thousand different places. it seemed to MT. Code. Mr. Pom5roy would ask over the phone how the river was and to L [ him know at such a place. Meanwhile Mir. Code received word that the Utah had too much water-mure a-er than was ever in it before or since the high land men got the l. st of thr low land men. The water was splashing over the banks above Lehi. If the canal should break. LGhi twenty feet below. would be washed away and then there would n yer be any more Lehi ditch mee,ings to amuse the public. To prevent this catastrophe MT Code endeav 5red to open communicable with Bishop Jones, Lehi's zanjero. When he placed the
 phone to his lar h. heard MT. TrOtt, from Evergreen, calling Bishop Jones. Then some one out on the C,ah cX- tension chinned in Bishop Jones'" At the same time Zanjer3 Williams, way below on the Tempe canal, yelled Bishop Jones'" Then Mr. Williams. hearing MT. Code say something about Bishop Jones. roared: How many - Bishlp Jones are there on this lineany- way" A fuse on the telephone system burned out somewhere and the Utah was left to its fate. It got through the ordeal somehow. ana I-ehi was saved. Tn telephone system. after a few sputterinGs. adjus,ed itself for fur thrr service. The next thing that broke in on Mr. Codes ear was something from Mr. Trott. Arizona dredger crassways of canal Water cutting big lev-e at the place on lower side of ca nal. Water is turned back into river to prevent break. Unknown head com ing down. Will hold y-u responsible tC prevent breaking Tempe canal" How am I going to watch the Temps canal? asked Mr. Code. his hair turn ing redder "I have CT jumping side ways all night. Every man I have f out wa,ching water. It is midnight-a nice time to have to get out and hunt up a man to watch water" Can r1r
 was the brief reply. Mr. Code sank into a chair in despair. Then, as though he had hit a spring. he was back at the phone. "Hell5. power house. Hitch me to the barbed wire" There was a short wait, during which time the man at the power house fastened a telephone wire to a barbed wir= fence which, af- ter many and uncertain ways, reaches Harry Mains home near the head of the Tempe canal. After a long ring MT Main was awakened by th= sound of his telephone bell. Mr. Code explained the situation and requested him 10 traVe
 the rest of the night between the Tempe head and his telephone and send in formation about the water. The Con- sOlidated canal was delivering to the Tempe canal. al th- power house, 5000 inches of water. If this was allowed tC be running when the water from the Arizona canal hit the Tempe dam. the Temp canal would be torn to pieces
 All night long the vigilant watcher; walked their beats at all heads of ca nals and division gates to see that al
 got enough water and n [ too much
 "A l. servoir." commented Mr. Code. the next morning. would regulate the water at least. which just at present 1 fee
 would be worth something O..