Arizona republican., 1901-01-11
WATER STORAGE ENTERPRISE
A Big Dam to Be Built on Bill Will
 Hams F0rk.


 the city yesterday. His visit was oc- casioned by private busne ss and he will come down about a week hence for the purpose of disClarging his duty in the legislature as representative from Yavapal county.
 When asked for something in the way of news he obligingly told of an en- terprise, that in all probability Will before long mean the investment of millions of dollars in tlis territory and the development of vast tract of az ricultural land. The enterprise referred 10 is the building of big storagy res ervor on the Bill Williams Fork which empties into the Colorado at Aubrey and drians' the vast scope of country between Congress and Klngman.
 Along the valley Of the Bin Williams and south of there lie hundreds of acres of land which with water would De as fertile as any ir this valley or | elsewhere. Adjacent are many rich | mineral. districts and promising pros poets, which cannot now be worked to advantage on account of q lack of water
 The construction of storage dam on the Bill Williams has in years past | been the dream of many promoters, men who realized the value of such an | enterprise, but who did not have the means to carry it out to a successful issue. For two or three years the men now engaged upon it have been mak- | ing investigations and as far as they have proceeded everything looks flat 1 tering. Its promoter IS MT. Willis H.. | Ba.es, Who years GgJ financed the com | pany that built the Walnut Grove dam. The history of that enterprise is of course well known, and MT. Bates in his present operations has taken the precaution to engage the services of the most competent engineers. MT. Bates knows what Arizona Is and his misfortune at Walnut Grove has not blinded him to the opportunities offer ed here. Further. he has proved that he is capable of handling larse enter ! prises,
 He has had various parties of capi- ,alists and engineers on the ground at different times, and it is significant that all are favorably impressed and ! talk about the project enthusiastically. Mir John Church, engineer for the New York city water works and accounted one of the best civil engineers in Afnar- ica has been employed to look over the field and repOrt-and if all is satisfac- tory to Graw the plans for the con- struction work. The proposed dam will necessarily be about 125 feet high and over thousand feet long. This will make gigantic storage basin and above the proposed dam site there is opportunity for numerous smaller dams. In fact 1t is just such another enterprise as is now proposed for the Salt River valley. It is said there is Q good stream of water the year round in the Bill Williams, even in dry years anu there is therefore an ample supply II Is proposed also to develop water power which will be used in mining operations. Mir. Church left New York on the 7th and will be on the ground in a few days.
 Asked about the work of the Arizon1 Development company of which MT Gccr is a director and resident man ager, he said they were going a'onl quietly and spending a good deal O money in development work. The! have some twenty-five or thirty claim! and expect to make some money Ou of some of them. The company is jus r what it's name signifies, a development l company. They take hold of claim
 that look promising and work then
 till they are satisfied of what the fina
 result will be. They do not expect tha all their claims will turn out we'll l
 one in alf a dozen proves to be a goot f mine they will be satisfied. They hay
 one group called the Mineral Belt
 near Harrisburg which is very promis
 ing, and in which they have dlscovere' good ore bodies similar to those of tn
 Bonanza There is something of
 mining boom on in the vicinity of Ty sons Wells end a great deal of pros pecting is being done. number O 7 Chicago parties are interested, amonl
 them Messrs. Shedd and Pease.
 Speaking of the Bonanza mine MI
 Geer said that MT. Hubbard was doin
 considerable work upon 1t, though mor
 on the Golden Eagle, which is close b
 and which promises to be bigger min
 than the Bonanza ever was. There
 enough ore now blocked out in tn
 Golden Eagle to keep a good mill run
 ming for a year. MT. Hubbard ha
 made a remarkable success of tho Bo c nanza and bids fair to make still nor
 money out of it, at the same tlm
 making the Golden Eagle famous. Tn mill at the Bonan2a is pretty well wor
 but it is probable that in the near flu
 ture it will be remodeied and repaired
 or new one erected, when the manu r fracture of genuine gold bricks will be ! sin again.
 For limited time I will make flt
 sets of teeth for S750. Nothing bV l ,+.,e