Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-14
Work Progressing
 On the Tonto Dam
CONTRACTORS ERECTING THE STEEL WORKS OF THE CE-
 MENT MILL.
Five Outfits at Work on the Tonto Road--Stase Three Times a Week Frcm Mesa to End of Road at Ior. Mon Flats.

Engineer L. C. Hill who is in charge of the work on the Tonto dam and road. was in Phoenix yesterday. says the Arizona Gazette. Mir Hill is in Phoenix to look after the completion Of the telephone connection with the dam site. He expects to leave again for the dam tonight
 MT. Hill states that on the power canal 1000 feet of tunnel work has been completed There are several small hills which will have to be tun. neled making a distance of S700 feet Nearly half of this distance is ready for the cement lining and work is be ing pushed on all of the tunnels. The excavation of the power canal is slow. y on account of the scarcity of men 10 perform the work. The sluicing tunnel is about half finished. 230 feet of it having been completed and work is now being done at both ends.
 The contractors are erecting the steel works of the cement mill. All of the material for this building is practi. cally on the ground. A large amount of the cement mill machinery is in Globe and llas been transported to the dam.
 The temporary power house Is also practically completed. The engines and boilers have been set. the line shafts for the machine shops are up. and the machinery is ready to. place Material for fire brick is now being ground.
 On the Tonto road. there are five outfits at work. two this side of Fish creek hill. two beyond the hill and one right on the hill A 7.000-foot stretch of the road beyond the hill can now be used to a certain extent One camp is cutting out the two only two river lords which now remain in the road. Last Thursday. Utting moved his camp to Mormon flats and drove in wagon with 100 pounds of freight. He will now work in both di- rections from the flats By the end of this month or the first part of next he will have the road in a condition for regular driving. A stage now leaves Mesa. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays fer the end of the road at Mormon flats.
 Uirectly and indirectly. between 1000 and 1900 men are working on the whole Tonto enterprise. About 400 are on the road alone. Of the men employed. 325 are being fed from this varrev and they require ton and q half of food daily
 With regard to the suit recently in stituted in the district court to force Chas. ". Williams i'd remove his. sa- loon from the neighborhood of the Tonto work. Mir. Hill stated that he had sent a man tb demand the re- -1oval and this has been refused. Will Jams was on the ground before the york was commenced and he desires tH ren~in His salOo- is fa1'- ro'ios rway from the nea.es- ocut~actor'5 camu and twelve r'iles from the gov o~nment camps. However the team ~ters usually patronize the saloon and rambling house ana others gn from tNe camp. Generally. the camps are ruiet for the men do not drink liquor cften unless they go to the saloon and they are usually drunk when they return.
 The question of water for the labor CTS is stil a problem. Al one camp it is carried three miles by burros' the amount being 120 gallons per day
 Speaking of the oil which has been reported to have been discovered Tn the excavations, NIT. Hill stated that there is an odor of oil at some places hut the biggest oil well does not pro duce more than 1000 gallons per cay However. if some one should invesu cate. oil might be found in quantities