Arizona republican., 1904-04-23
THE FISH CREEK ROAD
hessrs. Bartlett and Heard Return
 From the Reservoir Site.

 much discussed Fish Creek Hilf route
 MT. Heard, when interviewed yester- day upon his return, as to the condition of the road and the work at the dam, stated that the road had been roughly finished from Roosevelt to Fitzgerald camp, distance of about sixteen miles. He said that the road follows the slope of the hills with a remarkably even grade and that in many places in the 4ast four miles on the canyon of the Salt river it is cut out of solid rock and is an exceedingly fine piece of work.
 From the time Goldfield is left until the dam is reached, the scenery is re- markably fine, some of the canyons passed through having sheer cliffs of a fall of nearly 1000 feet. MT. Heard be- lieves that when the road is completed it will form one of the famous roads of the world and he believes that at an early date arrangements can be made for the construction of a nelectric road over this line to the dam.
 The telephone fine to Roosevelt is now completed. This has been a very diff cult and interesting piece of construc- tion work, some of the spans being nearly 1900 feet. A large proportion of the telephone poles were set with ce- Inent in solid rock.
 Mir. Heard has been over many of the famous trails of the territory hut he had neve- CT Cunt=rei aly quite so difficult as the Fish 6.reeK road. It's completion will, he believes, be a mon ument to the memory of the road builders. The telephone line stretches along the heights. It is an inter- esting sight to see men in the uniform of the geological survey, climb along the side of the mountain and attach an instrument to the line to in quire how the work is progressing else where.
 MT. Heard and Mir. Bartlett spent two days at Roosevelt, located at the dam site, and the balance of their stay at Livingston, thirteen miles east Of Roosevelt, where the headquarters of the geological survey party are located.
 All the work on the nineteen miles of power canal, which heads about one mile west of the Upper Box canyon. has been contracted. The contractor in charge of the two miles of tunneling is already at work ard the outfit of the contractor who has the excavation of the power canal, was just arriving as MT. Heard left.
 It is estimated that the canal will De ready for use in about a year, by whioh h date it is hoped that the cement mill will be ready for operation. The foun- dations for this mill, which are being built by the government. are nearly completed and owing 10 the great jar of the machinery used in making the cement, are of a very heavy character.
 Humber for all construction work at the dam is being hauled from the gov ernment sawmill, located thirty five miles northwest of the dam site in the Sierra Anchas, about 4000 feet above the dam site proper
 MT. Bartlett and MT. Heard visited this lumber mill and Mir. Heard states that the timber cut is of a very excel lent quality, similar to Oregon pine many of the trees cut averaging four feet in diameter and some as large as six feet. At present, owing to the great need of lumber in the construction work. it is necessary to haul this lum - Der green. The hauling is being done largely by ranchmen from the upper Gila valley, who are receiving S15 per thousand for hauling to the works. The lumber costs the government at the mill when sawed, about s9 per thou sand.
 In order to haul the machinery for use in the cement mill, which is located just above the power canal (that the plant may be used in the manufacture of cement after the reservoir is filledl the government is building a high line read around the slope of the hills ap- preaching the dam. I his road is of a remarkably even grade. All the pick and shovel work is being done by Apache Indians, who have quite large camp adjoining their work. The In- dians are paid S1.z5 per Gay and are said by the engineers in charge to be very satisfactory laborers. l.
 While on the trip Mir. Heard was fortunate in securing quite a, number of photographs of the various works in progress which give one an excellent idea of what is being accomplished at the reservoir. He states, however, that his work is very crude compared with that of MT. Lubkin. the government photographer, who is taking a magnif icent series of photographs Illustrating the progress of the work. an album of which will soon be sent to President Roosevelt.
 4 N-- I1llls lLe eIlSll.tCT III CIldEBe. ntS his headquarters in a very attractive camp located at Livingston, at which point the various engineers and i'm spectors who have charge of the power canal work are located.
 Charles R. Olberg, who made the or iginal plane table survey of the Tonto dam site for the geological survey three years ago, at the time it was cooper ating with the Water Storage commits sion, is TOW located at the dam site and is actively pushing the work r that section.
 small power plant has been tenn porarily located at Roosevelt, which furnishes electric light for the new town. as well as power for the drills which are soon to begin drilling on the transmission tunnel at the dam. A larger temporary power plant is short ly to be installed which will furnish the power for all work upon the dam during construction.
 MT. Heard states that cattle are re- ported to be starving all over the Ton to country. Tonto creek is nearly dry and the total amount of water from Tonto creek and Salt river at the tirne of his visit was but 5000 inches and when tested by MT I leighton. who f.;