Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-10-04
WILL THE BIG WALNUT
 GROVE DAM BE REBUILT?
Preliminary Work That Is Being Done Indicates That Such Is
 The Intention
(From Saturday's Daily.)

| CFrOm saturdays Dsly)
 John Hanlon superintendent of the Walnut Grove Water Stor age Company in Prescott making arrangements for the perform the work that property He says
 of be employed this year aggre- gate least twenty-five and that the time occupied will be least months This will give the reader something of idea of the magnitude undertaking which this company yearly ed for the past fifteen the Walnut Grove dam broke Heretofore supervision Colonel Brode the civil engineer of this but the latter has
 tered the army and present the Philippines ranon has designated representative of the Walnut Grove Storage Company.
 The ground held by the above company comprises fifty locations possesoy right and others patented and the dam site lies practically the of that The annual work that been performed regularly during past fifteen years been cntered site the Hassayampa ver and where the dam that The of this work has also been practical that each the character of the expense has been directed the rebuilding of the dam
 Today the bedrock foundation has been completed both sides the in the performance of this years purpose continue the rebuilding of the properly speaking continue the laying of the foundation greater eeva past years however been directed laying the foundation higher point the the than the bedrock flow owing the volume of that yearly down this natural opening has been left and both ends of the dam have only been regarded
 but reasonable believe that the practical rebuilding of this highway being considered by the Eastern The work today has reached that that admits of the feas by of the undertaking from both industrial and financial standpoint At least five thousand dollars has been expend ed for the past fifteen years in complying with the law governing mining expenditures while from the standpoint of industrial attached this project the of the section contiguous
 this better known today and be appreciated than before Originally this dam built hydraulic min proposition The storage the upper dam located the lower end of Walnut Grove about B miles from Prescott natural
 e if the feasible locality in the credit The built known straight the dam I measured four hundred feet from end end twelve feet wide the surface at the stream thickness had height year before flood ed had been filled the highest elevation and formed of the greatest bodies of artificial then the country
 While this being completed Walnut Grove Com also naugurated the building fifteen miles below of another dam the purpose of which service dam for the dstr button of for hydraulic mining This dam much smaller dimensions than the initial the upper dam In IS9o
 tremendous downpour of rain occurred this section and the termination o this rainy nearly the upper dam gave and broke demoshng every vesge property owned by this company along that In addition the heavy property loss estimated expended the construction of both dams human beings lost their lives and of that number but sxyree bodies found This the disaster that occurred in Arizona from human financial standpoint
 From the day of the breaking of this dam occasional reports circulated that will be built Such however but but the belief nevertheless that there greater possibility of this fact being accomplished the immediate future than be- fore The Eastern with the possibl ties of the through which this dam will reclaim for agricultural purposes while from the standpoint its mineral features the nducement that behind of these projects the testing of the domain along the Hasayampa N contiguous for placer gold It practically the mining abilities that led to the building of these dams.
 Colonel Brode who probably better informed than any other the subject of this enterprise enthusiastic advocate of the rebuilding of the He has devoted himself stud ous and scientifically every phase of the question: and since the has everywhere nauguraed the building of these self the admirable location of the Walnut Grove dam all the inviting him well others who cOnversant with the natural conditions it offers
 It is but reasonable entertain the belief that this magnificent will material regard rebuilding The work given to date and which will be continued again this itself indicative of keen from the will be closed seems be the universal impression With the accomplished the Walnut Grove dam will of two of the propositions the mining agricu ture and both a magnificent scale.
 One ofhe objects considered elaborated upon those teresd nIthis project that the