Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-07
Work on the
 Tonto Basin
IS PROCEEDING RAPIDLY AND
 WITHOUT ANY STOPS.
seventy-Five Men Now at Work-Two Hundred Men in the Storage Basin. And EIsewhere About the Works Win Be Four Hundred.

Win Be Four Hundred.
 MT. L. c. Hill, the engineer in charge of operations at the Tonto basin, ar
 rived in Phoenix from Globe by rail. He expects to leave for the basin again Tuesday. travelling overland and l inspecting the telephone line now un-
 der construction.
 Mir. Hill was applied to by the Re publican eor information regarding the status quo of the cement question con cerned in the storage enterprise. So. He said he had absolutely no knowledge
 of any change in former plans, and has heard nothing except what he has seen in the papers. All he can say is that the work of building the plant at the basin is proceeding rapidly, and there has never been any stopping of operations About seventy-five men are employed there now. There were a few more who were laid off at his in-
 stance, for the reason bnly that he thought they could not be economic | ally employed at that time. But while the force was thus slightly reduced
 on that special work. the work itself
 was not delayed The foundations Of
 the mill are in and the building is now
 progressing.
 Asked to give a general resume of
 what has been accumulated in the | five months since work actively be- gan and how many men are actually employed, he gave very interesting | interview. He says the force is now practically as large as it has ever been, vet not much larger than 1t has been for some time. There are ap-
 proximately POO men employed in the 1 immediate vicinity of the storage
 basin. exclusive of those who are | freighting in supplies and cutting and saving lumber in the mountains.
 There are about fifteen men at the
 saw mills. about ten at Ad. Farfsh's
 surveying camp, about thirty at the | cudasral survey camp of Mr. Hawiey, l south of Mesa, and about forty at
 work on the telephone line. These, | "3Nn thS hiOA6&fkSao oCN WCSn eaC oooAA
 and Globe. bring the total to about 400 i men that are now, and have been for
 a long time, employed on work con- | Dected with the Tonto project in one
 way or another.
 Mir. Aill says he has heard nothing
 respecting the a~a.vlng or contracts
 on Lne tlower canal. but it IS a tore gone conclusIon that as soon as Ine
 awards are maae Iae.e VIII De several
 hundred more men put to work. almost
 immedlateiy.
 1 Asked respecting a story from Mesa | City that as soon as Lne teiephone line IS completed, which will be perhaps | sixty days, construction of the trans
 mission line would begin for bringing
 power 10 the Ar1zona canal head and
 thence Iov Sacaton, Tor pumping pur-
 poses, Mr. Hill sand he thought there
 must De some mistake about it, for
 there is no power yet to transmit, and
 cannot be until the power canal is fin, ,, ished-
 Regarding the little camp at the
 basin, MT. Hill says it is rapidly grow ing into village of importance. | is named Roosevelt, and the telegraph : dispatches say that postmaster ha: T. been appointed, which means that a 5 an early Jay there will be daily mai h service. The camp, or village, as i
 is now entitled to be called, is les l fhan ohnx-o ha and 60U U in the basin. It contains three gen 5 eral stores, barber shop, shoe shoT r. a livery stable, two restaurants, tw $ lodging houses a meat market, dru e store, a government physician and 1
 private physician. There is also S. town hall, put up by private capita $ and in which the whole neighborhoo is gathers every Saturday night for le dance.
 There is another camp at Livinl
 stone, the head Of the basin, eleve ., miles up the stream, and third cam ," is now engaged in road making fe'
 miles below the dam site. He say
 that in a very short time the roa ar from the dam site to Fish. creek cal le yon will be practically completed 'e Reviewing what had been accon Y. plished n the last five months, M no Hill said over fifty miles of road hs .a- been built, the foundations and part Is- the superstructure of the cement plai a. have been built, brick yard and lin al kiln have beer established, watt ca works have been constructed, pipin
 water a distance of three miles, and s saw mill has been built.