Arizona republican., 1903-04-18

Principal Engineer Arthur P. Davis. They visited the San Carlos site on Tuesday, returning to the station Tuesday night. MT. Fowler left here Monday night and at Bowie station ! was very agreeably surprised to meet
 A. Storrs, electrical engineer of tte and reclamation service, a subdi-
 vision of the geological survey. Both parties met at San Carlos station Tues day night and arrived in Globe together
 Wednesday morning. They left at once for the reservoir basin, just below the junction of Pinal creek and Salt river,
 arriving in the afternoon. Thursday the entire party visited the dam site.
 and put in q hard day. In fact every | day was q hard day, for there w2s no ] time lost.
 Three or four miles above the dam
 site Cement Expert Duryee found beds
 of clay suitable for making cement. l 900 feet high and five miles long, suffl- cient to make cement for the whole i United States for an indefinite time. | On either side of the site he also found lodges of limestone, also needed in ! making cement. close at hand and high i enough up so the rock can be speeded ] by gravity into the cement works. lie
 satisfied himself fully as to these re- : sources and to the most available To- cation for the plant. MT. StOrrs. the i electrical engineer, devoted his atteG- [ tiol to an examination of the site with . view to the construction of the big plant for the generation of electric ! power. and found everything as had been anticipated. MT. Walcott devoted ! himself to the geological formation of i the country and the site in particular. i MT. Davis, being familiar with all the i surroundings, Was helping each one in 1 his particular line and Mir. Fowler was absorbing information at every pore and getting happier every minute. They- returned Thursday night to their camp
 near the head of the basin, fifteen miles above the site and were joined there i by George Y. Wisner, consulting en- { gineer of the geological survey and of
 several of the largest engineering en- i terprises in the country. Mir. Wisner had intended joining the party a. | Bowie. but was delayed by eastern
 railroad trisronnections.
 | Friday MT. Walcott was engaged In l.lt
 party went up the stream to a point
 near the mouth of Pinal creek where is to be constructed the diversion dam for turning water in the canal that Is to skirt the reservoir dam and which water is to be used for power pur- ! poses. Engineer Oldberg's party of
 twelve men were engaged in detail
 work in that vicinity
 On Saturday the entire party went to the dam site again, it being Mir 1 Wisner's first visit. Water Measure-
 Richings of laesa City was also me, ! there. The work of the former visi, vas gone over again, that there should
 be no error. Returning, the party i spent that night ct camp and in the i morning left for Globe on the way home. arriving Sunday afternoon. and l leaving there at o'clock Monday morning.
 ! Messrs. Wisner, Fowler and Duryee i left the train at San Carlos station and | went to the San Carlos dam site, the first two named having missed it or 1 the up journey. Messrs. Walcott and i Davis went on to Benson and points
 in that vicinity. On Tuesday Messrs i Wisner and Duryee left for California
 where all of those named in the en-
 ploy of the government are to meet again in conference in a day or two
 MT. Fowler stayed another day at Sar
 Carlos and on Wednesday went tC
 Tucson, learning later that Mir Walcotr
 haf arrived there the same day. Fri
 day morning. yesterday, they came or
 to Phoenix together Both gentlemen
 are feeling better physically for thei,
 outing. even though it was strenuou:
 one.
 As mentioned above. there is no mar knows what Mir. Walcott is going tC
 say this morning. but if ne is correctly
 quoted by the Tucson Citizen, whicf
 has not been over enthusiastic in tn, interest of the Tonto site, the folIowins clipping from the issue of that paper received here yesterday is at Ieas pleasant reading. The Citizen says: "He was enthusiastic in the opinion that the TOnt0 basin was an ideal sit for Q reservoir, but was not at all cer tain of the feasibility of the San Carlo site. He said an absolutely solid foun dation could be reached at Tonto basil at a depth of little over twenty feet but that there were indications tha ,, at San Carlos a depth Of siXty-fiv feet would have to be excavated befor
 a sure foundation for a dam could b