Arizona republican., 1906-04-25
ST JOHNS RESERVOIR
 TO BE RECONSTRUCTED
The Money for the Enterprise to be
 Brought From Utah.

St Johns. April 2O.-(SpeciaI Corre- spondence of The Republican.)-The school year of the St. Johns stake academy closed today, having had a very successful year under the manage ment of C. H. Anderson, of Fillmore Utah. MT Anderson has proved him. self very capable teacher during his year here, and generally the people would like to see him return.
 For the first time in some years quite crop of grain is being planted in the St. Johns field. The wheat IS all up now. and the barley is most all planted. A large crop is being put in at the Meadows, and with abundant water it looks as though this vicinity would have the largest harvest m years.
 Assistant Engineer F. c. Reid, of the government service. leaves here today after having installed a measuring ap- paratus across the Little Colorado river tust above St. Johns. The opening measurements show a flow of 416 feet, which would be enough to fill the large reservoir that broke last spring in less than twenty-five days.
 Mrs. BenignO Lopez, of Concho, h. been in St. Johns for some days under the care of Dr. Standlee. She is suf- fering with a cancer and had to be talk on on to Albuquerque for treatment.
 Everything looks favorable for a crop of apples here this season. The trees are blooming fairly we'll and later than ever before, as the water has not been in town and so prevented the bad prac- tIce of early irrigation of the trees. Many are not yet in bloom But peach trees are not blooming at all, and many of the less thrifty ones have been win ter killed. so that practically all the oldest peach trees in the place are dead now.
 President David k. UdalI arrived in town today. having just returned from | Salt Lake City, where he attended the conference During the time he was away he succeeded in securing a loan of money for building a reservoir for St Johns to replace the one that failed | last year with such wOeful results. The | loan is said to be $20,000. The old site 1 has been abandoned. and place furth- CT up the river selected instead The new site is near the little Mexican | town of Las Tusces, and is entirely above the salt springs that so impreg mated the water at the old site. The new reservoir will require a longer ] dam, but it will not be so high, and there is a good foundation to build the i structure on, as opposed to swampy bed at the former site. A new com pany, known as the Lyman Reservoir company has been incorporated. A ! competent engineer has been selected. and w. D. Rencher, who is rapidly coming to the front as an engineer of ability, will serve as constructing en- l gineer. The entire scheme comprises a storage dam that will retain 2O,OOO acre-feet and canal twelve miles in i length covering the benches south and west of St. Johns.
 Adolf Schuster, of the firm of A. & B. Schuster. is in town for a visit.
 The Apache County Bank & Trust company has now fitted up it's quarters as finely as any country bank in the southwest.
 St. Johns is to have a telephone line. F. w. Nelson is head push of the con- cern and now has practically enough stock subscribed to put it through. | The county has decided to build two bridges during the coming summer. One will be at the lower end of the Greer valley and across the Little Col
 rado for the accommodation of the ! HolbrOok travel, and one across the II Zuni for the accommodation of the
 travel to the Zuni village and Navajo \ combined.
 Capt. John T. Hogue, the veteran | probate judge, announces that he will
 not be candidate for reelection. He has
 held the position for eight years and ] has shown himself to be one of the most just and most conscientious of of ficials He expects in the future to
 devote his entire attention to the de >
 velopment of the American valley res-
 ervoir and irrigation scheme. -n
 You have probably met the bore.
 who. no matter what the attraction
 always recalls a better one.-Atchison