Arizona republican., 1904-06-11
Day of Conferences With
 Reclamation Officials
Progress of Construction Work at the Storage Basin-Achievements Rap idly Displacing Promises.

 ton. He will probably return on Sun day and from here go to Albuquerque to look over the Rio Grande project, Acting Chief Engineer Davis in the meantime looking after affairs of the | service in Washington.
 The mention that MT. Newell spent 1 a busy day yesterday is only part of | the truth, the rest of it being that he | has been very busy for the last two i weeks and that for the last three or | four days both himself and the three | gentlemen who arrived here with him | have been living very strenuous lives | Those gentlemen are Engineer L. C. | Hill, who is directly in charge of ope- | rations on the Tonto project, B. A. | Fowler, president of the Water Users | association, who left here last Friday night, joining MT. Newell at Maricopa. l and c. N. Mccullough, MT. Newelrs private secretary. The incidents of the week can best be told after the manner of a diary.
 Messcs. Newell, Mccullough and Fowler arrived in Globe last Sunday morning, where they were taken by a conveyance to the headquarters camp at Livingstone, joining MT. Hill at that point. Monday the party drove from there to the government saw mills in the Sierra Ancha mountains over a well graded freight road constructed under the supervision of MT. Hill for hauling lumber to the dam sight. The drive was a pleasant one through pie turesque surroundings and the whole country in the vicinity of the basin is now a hive of activity A few months ago there was only a trail to the Sierra Anchas. while on Monday last during the eight hours drive referred to, the party met sixteen freight teams loaded with lumber for the dam size The lumber is being hauled down as fast as it can be made.
 Tuesday and a part of Wednesday was spent in the inspection of work on the power canal, the cement mill and the operations at the dam site which will be referred to later. Wednesday afternoon the party left for Phoenix via the Fish creek or Tonto freight road. They camped at Fish creek Wednesday night, after an inspection of the work done there, and Thursday morning left for the valley. They ar- rived ir Mesa Thursday night. where they were rendered a magnificent re- reception and where they also met F.. D. Kenna, vice president, Howell Jones, land agent, and T. J. Norton, of Los Angeles, attorney. of the Santa Fe Railway company, and President F. M. Murphy, of the s. F. P. & P. system. Early yesterday morning in company with the railroad men they were taken by Dr. A. J. Chandler to see his big pumping plant and returning came on to Phoenix in the private cars of MT. Kenna and MT. Murphy.
 They were an hour later in arriving here than had been rlanned, and tha board of governors of the Water Users association, that had planned to meet them at II o'clock, had adjourned to l o'clock. At that hour they reconvened and MT. Newell and MT. Hill addressed them concerning the progress of work on the storage project and various de- tails Of special interest at this time Later a large number of the water users of the valley called at the offices of the association to pay their respects to Mr. Newell and al 2 o'clock the rep resentatives of the banks of the city met Mir. Newell and MT. Hill, arranging in detail the plans for utilization of the money to be advanced by the banks for construction work on the freight road. At 4:30 the county supervisors he'd conference with MT. Newell con- corning the enterprise of fitting the road between Mesa City and Goldf1eld for heavy hauling. It is understood the supervisors agreed to put in gOo1 condition the eight miles that need re- pairing between Goldfeld and the coun- ty line. the road between that point
 
 west corner of Pinai county, where the board felt that it had no jurisdic- tion.
 While these later conferences were in progress Engineer l1ill was inter viewed respecting tEe progress of con- struction work. He said that there are now about 200 meE employed in the four road camps, threH of which are stationed at and beyond Fish creek. and that 1000 feet of the road at Fish Creek canyon is already completed. The other camp is this side cf Fish creek. Two more camps will be started at once, one at Mormon Flat and one thi- side of there. Within two weeks, there fore, the men employed in road work will number about 300 and the men em- ployed on the entire project will be be- tween 1200 and 1500. A pack train will be started at once to furnish supplies for alt the road camps, from this val lev. Respecting the work in the basin, MT. Hill sad that there is completed on the power canal over :E00 feet of tunnel work and owe; 1OG feet of the sluicirg tunnel at the dam site. Of the temporary power plant at the dam site there is installed an engine, two boilers and a dynamo and the machin- cry for the machine shop is on tha ground. whi;r the structural steel fer the cement plant is arriving.
 Last evening, pursuant to announce ment, there was an informal reception at the Hotel Adams in honor of MT. Newell, which was attended by many who had net met him during the day. An orchestra enlivened the time with music while the citizens were gather- ing.
 President Fowler called the meeting
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