Arizona republican., 1900-09-19
WATER STORAGE WORK
Another Interesting Meeting of tie
 General Committee Yesterday.

The regular Tuesday afternoon meet ing of the water storage committee was held at the board of trade rooms yes terday. More than a quorum of the committee was present and there was no Tagging of the enthusiasm and earnestness which have attended all the meetings of the committee. The subcommittee had no special reports to make except of satisfactory progress in the investigation of the subjects which had been assigned.
 Water commissioner TrOtt appeared before the committee at the request of w. H. Code, to furnish information with reference to the underflow of the Salt River. MT. Trott said his infor- nation at hand was not sufficiently ac- curate but he would be prepared in two weeks to furnish exact informa- tion on that subject.
 Ernest w. Young spoke of pumping plants. During his stay in California he had observed the working of plants there and was inclined to believe that they would be successful here. He isl preparing to put in a plant. He will later report upon the operation of it.
 Y. E. Messinger read a government report with reference to the deposit of silt in the Sweet Water dam in South ern California. It was estimated in the report that it would take .0O0 years to fill the dam.
 Chairman B. A. Fowler read an inn portant letter from F. H. Newell. chief hydrographer for the government, who conducted the surveys for a site on the Gila. MT. Newell said he had learned with regret of the lately increasing drouth of the Salt River valley and of its disastrous consequences this season. He said he would be pleased to make such investigations as were needed here but that the government would not order them made until they had been asked for. Mr. Newell pointed out the things that it would be neces- sary to look into and he suggested that a petition be forwarded to the govern ment asking for a hydrographic sur vey.
 Colonel Wilson spoke of bill which had passed congress providing an ap- propriation for defraying the expenses of preliminary survey. The original bill carried $1O0.OOO It was passed by the house and was amended in the sen ate by increasing the amount to .$25O,- OOO. Of this sum $12, 900 was to be set aside for Arizona. The house did not concur in the amendment.
 Colonel William Christy spoke of the Colorado tapping project and said that James Bark had spent three months riding along the banks of the Colorado looking in vain for an outlet through which water might be diverted into the headwaters of the Verde. Vernon l.. Clark offered a letter from Superin tendent Epes Randolph of the Southern Pacific at Tucson. MT Randolph said that in the course of a preliminary sIr- vey for a road from the Santa Fe Pa cific to Globe a study of the topography of the country had been made with the result that in his opinion the Colorado project was utterly impracticable. On this same subject, by thee way. MT. Newell in his letter to AIr. Fowler said the project was an attractive one. As to it's practicability he was unable to say but it was his opinion that the matter should be carefully investi- gated.
 Captain P. P. Parker called attention to the fact that 300 inches of water were lost in the river between the Tempe bridge and the joint head. He recommended that some means ba taken to save it. It was not much but it was so much. The next meeting of the general committee will be held on Tuesday, October ?.
 The cam site committee will leave on September ? on it's tour of investiga- tiOn of the Tonto Basin site
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