Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-11-30
Belief That the Walnut Grove Dam Will be
 Considered.
Influential Channels are Actively at Work on this Magnificent Water Storage Enterprise Located but a Few Miles From Prescott. A Project of Gold Production and Land Reclamation.

The statement IS made from author
 itative sources that for some months
 past an effort has been made to have
 the attention of the government al
 rected to the recognition of the Wal
 nut Grove dam as desirable proposi tion to rebuild. To that end strong influences are at present at work and
 nave been for some time. The belief
 prevails that successJul continuation
 of these efforts has taken place, and
 that this site will be selected as the
 next one on which in Arizona a fund
 will be available to inaugurate the
 work of rebuilding.
 Governor Brodie is in Washington at the present time, and while it is
 not openly stated to be fact it is be- lieved by many nevertheless that he is devoting his energies to accomplish ing this work through governmental channels, and encouragement has fol- lowed his representations. Governor Brodie is a civil engineer, of recogniz- ed ability in dam building, and in addition to that qualification, he su- perintended the building of the ser vice dam of the Walnut Grove con- pany that was located on the Hassa- yampa below the great storage dam that went out in the floods of 1890. He is familiar with the work accord ingly, and in addition to the fact that he is more or less today promi- nently identified with the company that owns this site, it is fervent wish of bis to see this project under head way again at any cost and through any channel.
 4 favorable matter to be considered in the rebuilding of this great water way is that it will serve a double pur- pose-the pursuit of hydraulic mining on one hand and the utilizing of the waters from that source for the recla- nation of the arid lands adjacent to the mining ground on the other. Sur veys have been run from the end of the Hume that still stands near the mouth of Hassayampa canyon and to point as far away as Congress Junc- ton, distant over fifteen miles, the water can be taken by gravity to that point or nearly so. Thousands of acres of fertile ground could be reclaimed accordingly, while placer mining could likewise be fostered without one drawing in anyway from the other.
 At the time this dam collapsed, it was the intention of the Walnut Grove company to utilize these waters for these specific purposes, and there is no doubt but what the plan as outlin- ed would have been successfully car ried out if they had been,permitted to do so. Another desirable feature at tached to the repubilding of this dam is that the initial work incidental thereto is practically solved, surveys being copmlteed, the bedrock founda .ion is finished, estimates of the height and volume of water that can be stored and other data is perfected, md all that remains to be done is to !. begin the work on tbese lines.
 This project is one of the greatest | n possibilities in the entire west so l ar as fruitful results are to be consid. | sred, and we sincerely trust that the . belief that prevails today that the . will possibly be identified . with it will prove true. It certainly . ooks as if, under the circumstances ] which are said to be prevailing today, hat the interior department will con- ] iider the matter, and that the infiu- l ,nce of our governor is significant of iction to this end.