Arizona republican., 1905-01-13
CAVE CREEK NEWS
Plan Suggested for Preventing Floods
 at Glendale.

 respondence of The Republican, Rain began falling here about midnight Sunday and continued until last night. It was a steady, gentle water fall, with cIoudbursts on Monday and Tuesday nights Since the rain began not less than three inches of water have fal- len and the country seems to be tho roughly Soaked. Last winter very few sheep herds were able to get this side of the Verde except to drive to the shearing sheds here and back again. But if ordinary January weather en- feed nearby, so that the sheep can come to the shearing and dipping vats in good condition. Last winter no sheep were dipped here and the march back to Apache and Coconino counties was began a month earlier than for merly.
 I cannot recall any three-da rain so copious as this one since January and February, 1892. This coming on the climatic phases since July goth, last year, enables us old timers to eX- pect a recurrence of the abundant rainfall of the eighties.
 Cave Creek is humping itself again, and we are surprised and grieved at the irascibility of the irascible people of Glendale. Even since some of us helped to clear off section six, on which the village stands, we have let no op- portunity slip to inundate the place with aqueous blessings; but they get mad when Cave Creek, taking it's knit ting along, goes down there to visit them. We are so righteous up here that we need only wish for rain to start the ants to fortifying their holes and then a little needless praying causes the creek to go on a bender and on to Glendale. and that town to fall from Grace. The Verde canal has diverted a great deal of storm water that formerly soaked into Paradise valley, into the channel of the creek. If that canal had been completed to the jumping off place. where the com pany was going to erect a great power plant, and thence a small ditch made to run a few miles sOuthwesterly. each freshet would tear out a larger chan mel, until a stone wall at the creeks crossing of the Arizona canal would check and turn down that canal what water slops over from the Verde. and we could keep on praying without be- ing annoyed by GleDdale's impious protests.
 There should be made across the wash in Winnifred valley a raised road of 100 yards. in two places, or, if in one place, where a road running from the upper to the lower main road crosses the wash in Winnifred. There is not a wash in the county more mirey than that one
 Business at HOuck's place is begin ming to boom. Sheep shearers are com ing in fast. Until this rain came sheep men were hesitating to book their herds for she airing, and the machine men to put their plant in shape. Now all preparatory work will be pushed with speed; this rain settles the cues ton of feed for the balance of the seq son.
 This rain making the road from the mine to the mill too heavy, the Nor mon Girl mill has shut down for a few days. The mill has bean running steadily for nearly two months and I hear that partial clean ups confirm all reasonable expectations of that mine. If the Ben Hur should be equipped with suitable machinery. that mine and the Mormon Girl would give the dis trict name and prestige that would start proper development on about a dozen others that are promising enough. By next winter the properties of the Grand Traverse and Arizona will be producing.
 Was there ever anything in this life more amazing than such inestimable quantities of gold and copper being boldly apparent (vide the Ben Hur) and yet capital is taking hold of irriga- tiOn projects existing only on faith