Arizona republican., 1902-07-31
THE GLENDALE FLOOD
A Local Residents Scientific Report
 on the Late Deluge.

To the Editor of The Republican:
 Sir-If The Republican will permit me, I would like to give to the public d few facts of the Glendale and Cave creek flood, an account of which was published in your columns last Sat urday morning.
 l have ridden from the mouth of Cave creek where it empties into the Arizona canal to as far south and west as the water reached and I haven as yet found nor heard of a man get ting over forty acres wet, and that was only run over and not soaked.
 Mir Jack. foreman Of the Bartlett ranches, irrigated about forty acres out of four sections of land and in his excitement over little water he tele- phoned to Phoenix that the whole country was under water from a foot and a half to three feet deep. Lateral No. IS, that runs through Glendale had more water than anywhere else it running full and in some places over the top.
 In the city of Glendale the water came down the roads from the north and east, laying some of the dust in places where there was water enough to cover it. At the crossing over lat eral IS the railroad bridge is very low and the water couldn't all pass through at once. so had to back up the track thirty or forty yards, making pond of water on one side of the track. MT. i Fish, Glendales depot agent, seeing | this pond. was considerably excited, and a special was sent to Glendale with a trainload of ties, lumber and several workingmen, expecting to find l | after stopping two or three gopher holes they whistled all aboard and went back Lateral 19 had but little | water in it until mile and half west of Glendale; there the water came down the road from the east and filled the lateral full from there to the lower end. Several ranchers were home at work, their gates were shut down and they didn't even know there was any water until it was all gone. Some got from three to five acres wet. while oth- CTS wet as much as ten acres.
 At Peoria on the Clark ranch, Mr l Wagoner. the foreman, said he irrigat- ed three CT four lands. MT. Forney living in Glendale, and one of Glen dale's best rustlers. irrigated abou half of his seventeen acre ranch. Sev eral other small ranchers in Glendal, irrigated from three to five acres.
 MT. Hawkins. postmaster at Glen dale, after all the water was gone. tel ephOned to the water company that tn
 water was from one and half to si,
 feet deep in Glendale and that mos all the ranches were soaked up well After Mr. Hawkins shad finished tellin:
 his big one to the water compan.
 he turned to the writer and said. "B. love. 1 want to make il as big as pos sible-' With all the Cave creek wate
 MT. Hawkins got. he told me in th
 presence Cf others, that he got his pea
 orchard wet (tWO and a half acres
 But Mr. Hawkins said: II tell you
 gentlemen. I want to restore conf
 dence in the people. Why, when Lo
 Angeles hears this they will com
 locking back here by the hundred.
 Judging from the aid of his imagina
 tion MT. Hawkins rejoices in tn
 thought cf having a big reservoir bull
 at the mouth of Cave creek where empties into the Arizona canal. wit big fumes under the canal so as [
 stop the breakaSe of the canal , happy thought" for Glendale. Tn water wouldn't be turned down tn
 river and run to waste under the othe canals. when by right it belongs [ Glendale.
 The Zanjero told me he didn't mak stock water on the lower end laters No. 20 last Sunday morning, and 2,0G , inches were going to waste at the low
 CT end of the Grand canal
 About half . mile west of Glendal' } a reporter from Phoenix. after passn
 through Glendale, stopped and aske | myself and another rancher, How ia l is it to the flood you had out here , We informed him that the most of
 was in Glendale. He laughed, turne around and went home.
 The only damage we heard of bein 5 done by the flood was to the propert of an old bachelor living in Glendal
 Y. E. Messinger. MT. Messinger has , pet badger and the poor fellows peace l ful quietude was disturbed by watt , running into his abode. bringing hil
 to the top of the ground in a hurry
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