Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-14
PROGRESS ON THE SALT RIVER
 PROJECT.

humming as it is with the activities of it's 3,0o0 inhabitants, is doomed. Its lease on life is only three years long In 1908, when the engineers of the Reclamation Service shall have com pleted the highest dam in the world, Roosevelt will lie 172 feet below the surface of the water in the reclama- tion reservoir. Work has been in progress there for about 8 year, but men are laboring now, night and day, in three shifts of eight hours each, in order that no more than three addi- tional years may be consumed in the task. Then Roosevelt will be no more.
 Shut in by mountains as the valley of Salt River is at this point. there is 10 place else where the men who are constructing the dam for the Salt Riv- CT reclamation project might build them a city except in the very valley that is destined to be submerged. The town or camp of Roosevelt is situated partly on the flat along Salt River and partly on the hillside above the high water mark of the reservoir. In the lower part of the camp are located the temporary power plant, the commis- sary, the corrall the hospital, and the dwelling tents of the employees of the Reclamation Service of the United States Geological Survey and of contractors working for the Gov ernment. In that portion of the camp known as 'Roosevelt-on-the-Hi -Hill'' are the cement mill, and office building, dining hall and kitchen, numerous tent houses, and several frame struct- ures erected for the use of the engi- herring force and their families.
 Three mail and passenger stage lines connect Roosevelt with the out side world. The Globe line, which is about 42 miles tong. provides a daily stage service from Globe, which has Southern Pacific Railroad connec- tions. By means of the Mesa line, passengers and mail can be brought to the dam in one day from Phoenix, which is the center of the Territory. The route, which IS about 60 miles long, runs through the most pictur- esQue part of Arizona. Capitalists are even now considering the adYisabiiiLy of putting on an automobile line from Phoenix to the dam, of constructing a trolley line between the two points, aud of erecting a tourist hotel in the mountains not far from the dam site. A third stage line, also in daily oper- auon, is the one between Payson and Roosevelt. It is about 6 miles long
 The contract for the Roosevelt dam has been recently given to J. M O'Rourke & Co.,, of Galveston, Texas and the most serious work of the prof ect will soon be under way. During the past year. however, a vast deal Of important preliminary work has been accomplished by the inhabitants of Roosevelt. A temporary power plant a cement mill, an ice plant. lighting plant, and a saw mill have all been completed. The power canal, which will furnish w<er power TOT Jne gen. eratiOn of electricity to operate all the works, will be done in a few months A telephone line connecting the head. works of the power canal, about Is miles above Roosevelt, with the Ari zona dam, which is about 30 miles from Phoenix, has also been installed. In the face of great engineering difficult ties, a wagon road has been built between Phoenix and Roosevelt. 4 road to the timber in the Sierra AEcha Mountains has also opened up a new country. Altogether, it has been uec- essary to construct about go mi;es of road.
 Much of this work has been done under most unfavorable circum- stances. From February until the end of March there was almost continuous rain and snow. Never in the history of Arizona has snow been deeper than it was last winter, and the chances for nigh water during the entire summer are. unfortunately. almost certain. During the greater part of March the road to Globe was impossible and the Gdla Valley, Globe. and Northern Rail way was out of commission. Tho Southern Pacific bridge ScrUss Gila al Mar.cope ves rebuilt half uo1-r times during that month. it is appar- eDf therefore that materials for con- structton work were not hauled into