Arizona republican., 1905-09-18
THE NEW WATERWAY
Rapid Progress Being Made by sP-
 prOpriatOrs Canal Co.

! The Apcopriators' Canal company is jubilant over it's rapid progress in ca nal building and the construction feat ures incidental to it. It was slow in
 getting to work last week owing to a
 scarcity of tools, but there are now about fifty teams employed, and before the present week is out it is proposed to have two camps at work instead of one with about fifty teams in each camp. Tn the three days only in which there was active work last week. about a half mile of ditch was opened. though of course not completed. There are . now in use eight four-hOrse Fresno scrapers and about twenty slips with one team each. Arrangements have been made for securing more tools at once. The other teams are employed on blows and general roustabout work. IL is believed that in three weeks, or four weeks at the outside. Grant Bros, will have finished their contract, and the company thinks that by that time the farmers will have finished the dig ging of the western extension, so that in a month they will nave water run ming the full length of the canal as it is now proposed.
 During the present week the com pany proposes to establish a camp to begin the work of running the laterals. This lateral system is to be patterned somewhat after the system under the Arizona, but in decided contrast and much better than the system, or lack of it, now prevailing under older canals. At present most of the farmers under the old canals have to keep up their own Iaterals. IL is proposed by the AppIopriators to have a complete sys- tenn of laterals on section lines, main tained by the company, so that most of the farmers will have the water de- Iivered to them at or near the upper corners of their property. They will then nave little ditching to do except on their own property. When this sys- tenn is completed it will cover practi- cally all the land between the Appro- pTiators' canal and the river.
 Another matter that has again been taken up is the building of a Hume or siphon under the Crosscut canal where it is intersected by the new ditch. The plans for it have been drawn and the lumber for it is ordered. Heretofore the water taken from the river through the App-opriators' head has been turned into the Grand or Joint canal and must continue to be until this Hume is constructed, but it is expected that will be finished fully as soon as the work of excavation is completed, when it will be desirable to run the water all the way through the new canal
 The Appropriators are pleased at the Unanimity with which all available lands not heretofore signed up to their enterprise are now being enrolled. Most of the actual settlers are already stock holders in the company. and only the non-residents, who were not familiar with conditions, hung back. It is noted now that the non-residents are fast coming in, and the roll of stockholders now numbers about 500. There will be a meeting of stockholders in Padget hall at 10 o'clock in the morning of October ? (circus day), for the purpose of electing a new board of directors. and it is desirable, of course, that as large an attendance as possible be present.
 As an illustration of the good fortune of the farmers in having the Appro- pTiators' canal so nearly finished as it is it might be mentioned that most of the water now being used on this side of the river is coming through the Ap- prOpriators' head. A flow of possibly 1000 inches is coming through the joint head.