Arizona republican., 1904-08-24

IllS tOIISni ana U IS fepOrte1 that SIX
 lives were lost in Globe in consequence
 of the flood
 Mr Norman Schermerhorn of the U. s. c. &. who is employed as time keep
 CT on the power canal line. had a mar
 row escape from a serious accident op
 Wednesday. MT. Schermerhorn at tempted to cross Pinto creek on horse
 back, but when half way across his
 horse stumbled on a boulder and fell.
 MT. Schermerhorn was thrown from
 the horse and was under water for
 some time and experienced great
 deal of difficulty in getting out of the
 stream on account of the ra Did cur
 rent. Luckily the horse did not fall on him and outside of a few bruises
 he escaped injury.
 There are now six camps working on l the Phoenix Roosevelt road and all the
 foremen report the work progressing rapidly. Foreman c. Botticher, who has been camped about q mile down the canyon from Roosevelt, has com pleted the section of the road that he
 has been working on and hereafter will attend to repair work. Foreman F. H. Harpham, who is now camped about ten miles from Roosevelt, will shortly complete his. part of the road and will | then move his camp below Thompson's,
 which is located at the top of Fish Creek hill
 Foreman Fitzgerald, who is at Fish | Creek hill, is working a large force of
 men and is doing everything possible to rush the work.
 Foreman C. H. Utting, who is camp ed at Mormon Flat, is making great progress at that end of the road and
 will shortly move camp.
 Since starting the actual work of constructing the road the merchants ! of Phoenix, Mesa and Tempe have de-
 rived a great deal of benefit by the purchasing of supplies for the camps
 from valley points,
 MT. J. F. Patton, who has the con tract for packing the supplies to the
 various rold camps, handled about 130 OO0 pounds of freight and about r. eco pounds of express during the month of July.
 A large force of men are working at the dam site and Roosevelt is a hive
 of industry. The sluicing tunnel. which
 has been a very difficult piece of work will be completed this month. The power plant is completed, as well as l the ice plant which is now turning out two tons of ice daily. The power plant is the largest and most imposing struc- ture in the town and is equipped with a 150 horse power Bullock dynamo 200 horse power engine and a nest of two 100 horse power boilers. The building is fitted with machinist room, drills, punches, lathes, planers and all the machinery that is found in first class shop. The power plant is complete in every detail and the repairs for all the ] machinery used in this great enterprise will be turned out wit lightning rapid ity A carpenter shop is also embrac-
 ed in the plant and is equipped with up to date tools.
 To one side of the power plant is the fire brick works, where the government Is making its own fire brick from ma terial found close at hand. One of the eatures of this enterprise is that
 no matter what material Is desired or needed, it is to be found with a few
 miles of the works.
 The cement mill is being completed rapidly A large force of men are working on the building and the ma chinery is being set in place under the able management of MT. Robert Dc Large.
  source nineteen miles above the dam site on Salt river is being pushed with all possible rapidity. The building of the power canal line is one of the most l important pieces of work going on and every possible precaution is being talk
 en to make 1t perfect in every respect. ! There is about eight thousand feet of i tunnel on the canal line and Tutle & | Co.,. who have the contract for this
 part of the work. will complete it in about six weks. All of the tunnel work | Is under the direct supervision of Mir B. F. Harrison government inspector. | The concrete lining of the tunnels Is well under way and MT. F. J. Mills. of
 Tutle &, Co, deserves a. great deal of credit for the rapid and thorough man ner in which the tunnel work Is being | done.
 ] Sherer & Co, the contractors for the grading of the canal line. are also well along with their part of the work and working large force of men. Super intendent Crowley of Sherer & Co.,, has put on an additional crew on the lower
 end of the canal line and is doing ev-
 erything possible to rush the work. | Plunkett & Shute, the new contrac-
 tors, operating the government saw
 mill in the Sierra Ancha mountains.
 are cutting about eight thousand feet of lumber a day. About five thousand
 feet of this lumber is being used by
 Tutle & Co.,, for timbering the tunnels
 on the power canal line and the bal
 ance is used at Roosevelt.
 | MT A. L. Harris, assistant engineer
 and wife are spending the week at the | rest camp in the Sierra Anchas. | MT F. K. Howard, formerly of Chi
 cago, has accepted a position with the U. s. G. S. as designer, and is now located at headquarters camp. Mir. Wm. G. McNulty, formerly a
 member of the Phoenix ball team, who
 has been holding down the job of sten--
 ographer at headquarters camp for the past four months. will leave for Phoe- nix the first of September to accom- pany the National guard to Prescott on their annual encampment.
 MT. William Medley of the surveyor generals office. who is engaged in sur vey work in the Sierra Anchas, came down off the mountain last week to purchase some ammunition. Mir. Mea- ley purchased all the available Choc-