Arizona republican., 1906-03-15

canal for they surmised in an instant
 just what had happened. They stopped ] at Ingleside and spent the rest of the 1 day there and a good part of the night. l MT. Etter early yesterday morning from somewhere in that neighborhood, ! telephoned to the head to learn the eX- | tent of the damage and then by tele- phone called a meeting of the executive | committee of the Protective associa-
 tion, to which he reported yesterday af- | ternoon, the facts as he had learned
 them by telephone about II o'clock.
 This was in substance that one of l the five gates in the Arizona head was
 missing, probably punched out by d floating log, and Foreman Myers had | thus far been unable to patch the hola and shut the water out of the canal. Also that between points 800 and 2O0O feet below Arizona head, the river had in three different places, washed holes into the near side of the canal. It was the flood pouring into these holes that 1 filled the canal up so suddenly on
 Tuesday. A mile or two further down | the canal is the site of the big break
 $50 feet long in the canal bank, made last November by the water rushing in
 above just as it did Tuesday. This the farmers had repaired as they believed 7eA SAA3 CAlOuSAl lO iAOlu any OIhlldES flood in the canal and it did hold for time else there would have been no rush of water down the canal Tuesday
 But it gave way Tuesday night or yes- terday morning, presumably, for yes terday the canal was dry again the water that ran into it through the up- per breaks running out through this lower break. When MT. Etter tele- phoned yesterday morning he was told that as near as could be judged ths
 break this time is 16O feet long, about half what it was before. But the river was still so high that canal and river still looked like one body of water ana it could not be told wheth0r the breach had been made clear through the rock foundation. or only over the dirt top O. it, nor could it be definitely told wheth- CT the sand was secured out of the bottom or piled up deeper than before
 The executive committee met with 8 number of other interested members Of the association to confer with Mr. Et- ter at his request. After talking the matter over all agreed that the best thing to be done was to proceed at the earliest possible moment, to the repair l ing of the canal bank. It is not fm- probable that this can be done in : few days and the banks built up high
 
 little flood water if the river should | remain at a partially swollen stage for | any length of time. And if 1t does not | remain high it is not believed the re | pairing of the canal will delay matters | more than a week or two, while thS | short but very beneficial wettirg thaf the Arizona farmers got on Tuesday, ! rather sooner than expected, will en- able them to wait Q little longer fur -water through the extension than they had anticipated.
 Engineer Parish was seen yesterday afternoon and asked what estimate ne would make on the cost of again re- pairing the above mentioned breaks in the canal He said that it was rather wild thing to discuss until he had seen the damage and knew just what it was but for a rough guess he would say that $500 would rebuild the banks sufficiently high to carry the water hoped to be diverted through the ex- tension. He said he would not advise at this time. the building of the bank so high as before. for the reasons first that there will probably be no more floods high enough to break into the canal until after the crop season. and secondly if so big a flood did come again it would perhaps be just as im- pOSSiDle lO IeIlCe II out dS II Has been this time. so that in view of the fact that it is temporary work anyway there is no wisdom in spending money to make it permanent. The entire scene of trouble is above the Granite reef dam site where the new diversion dam has been projected and all that is necessary is to keep ditch that will water this years crops.