Arizona republican., 1903-06-09
GEOLOGICAL SURVEYORS
Three of Them Here Two Coming
 Through the Salt River Valley.

Another representative of the Unit i ed States geological survey, A. H. ! Thompson. arrived here yesterday from Washington, and c. E. Olberg and H A. storrs. both connected with that bu- reau, arrived here from Tonto Basin Mir. Thompson is stopping at the Com mercial and the other gentlemen regis tered at the Hotel Adams. Mir Storrs leaving on this mornings train for Denver, where he will meet MT Newell and MT. Davis.
 Mir. Thompson was very busy yes terday and could not be seen, so it is not definitely known what department { of the surveys work he is engaged in. though it is known that he is one of the oldest and most trusted men in the ser vice.
 Mir. Olberg is engaged in the same work as when he visited Phoenix about the e0th of last month. namely. the searching out of a road from this val ley to the dam site. He returned home on his last trip via the Four Peaks ! country, not that he expected to find a road there, but it would not be proper to locate one till all possible routes had | been explored. Since then he came | down by Fraser's ranch to Mesa, where ! he met Mir. Storrs, and then returned to the dam site over the same route, giv- | ing further attention to details On this l trlp to Phoenix the two men came down | through the box canyon partly for the pulpose Of exploring it professionally and partly for the novelty of it. They wanted to know the exact conditions. | The box canyon is about thirty miles ! long and the trip took them two days and part of the second night. They sent | their pack train to Coffin's ranch over | the hills and six miles down the canyon and catching up with it spent the first night there. Then they sent the train !! on to the lower end of the canyon. The second day they made twenty-one miles ! of the canyon on foot and swimming. 1 They waded and swan much of the
 way and had many exciting experienc- es. Ehe most important accident was
 that they lost all their tobacco and
 Jerky, but with great care they man.
 aged to keep their matches dry inside
 the sweatbands of their hats As they
 were drying their clothes by the camp fire that night at Mormon fiat. three
 miles aOove the mouth of the canyon
 and expatiating on how good supper
 would taste if they only had some Charley Mullen arrived from below
 with their horses and they picked their
 way through the last three miles to the mouth of the canyon in the dark.
 Mr. Oiberg says that since he was
 here in May his pack train has travel
 GU about 300 miles, so it is fair to pre-
 sume but little grass grew under the
 Lorses' feet.
 Mir. Storrs is the expert electrical en-
 gineer of the survey, and save up pri-
 Vate engineering, entering the govern
 ment service only last March. He is al
 the head of his profession. as newspa- per readers will know who read the comments made when he assumed his Z. new duties. Since then he has been a
 very busy man and hardly knows where
 his home is, his time being divided be.
 tween the Tonto site, the Colorado sit,
 and site under consideration in Ne.
 Nada. with a general headquarters al
 Los Angeles. His work mostly. how
 ever. has been on the Tonto site sine,
 his first visit there with Mir. Walcott and he has been since then workinl out the details of the proposed cemen
 plant to be built just above the dan site His recent visit there was to Sc
 cure further detail in that work. H,
 hopes when he meets his superiors a
 Denver to hear Of some place where ht will be located long enough to send for
 his family ard renew their ecouai1t. arce.