Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-08
ROOSEVELT DOOMED 10
 L|EBENEATH THE FLOOD
Arizona Town Named in Honor of the President Will Be Buried 200 Feet Under the Surface of a Lake,
(By Frederick ordway)

sunny valley of Southern Arlzona, stands the town of Roosevelt. Today it is a thriving, bustling community of 2.0VO inhabitants, with electric lishts. waterworks, sewerage, schools, and churches. Two years from now it win lie at the bottom of lake, 2oO feet beneath the surface of the water
 The town of Roosevelt came into hing because of the Roosevelt dam project. It is fitting, perhaps, that completion of the dam will be the sig- nal for the towns destruction, ana that the very ground upon which lo stands will be forever buried from the sight of man. Pompeii and Hercula- neum were covered by the ashes oi yesuyius: Ninevah and Babylon were abandoned to the deserts drifting sands: there are legends of beauti1ui cities in the fabled continent Of AL lantis. many leagues under the oceans waves: but Roosevelt stands alone probably, as the only town which man has contrived deliberately 10 bury pc meath the flood.
 Roosevelt must perish that des- ert may be made to bloom. Already the marvellous engineering work IS well under way The walls of tne narrow canyon through which Salt River rushes on edge are being locked by massive monolith of solid ma sorry, the highest arch dam In the world.
 This wonderful structure oi sand stone and cement will be 2SO feet in height from foundation to parapet, 21O feet long, and ITO feet wide at base. and 70 feet long on top us cubical contents will be 300.Oo0 cuDlc yards. and in its construction Z4O,ooo barrels of cement will be required. Placed alongside of an eighteen-story sky scraper. this dam would rise ten feet above it, while its length on top would be more than two city blocks. A turbulent stream, with it's enormous floods. will beat itself into stiffness against the masonry monster, it's foam and spume lost in a deep lake, twenty five miles long and two miles wide.
 By day and by night the dull roar of dynamite breaks the desert still ness. and the canyon walls go crashing down to furnish material for this structure. On the hill far above the rcclz crushers never stop grinding the limestone, and great kilns, white hot, are burning daily hundreds of barrels of cement.
 When night comes myriads of cleo tric lights burst forth, weirdly illumn- hating busy army of toilers gnome- like working in a shadowy canyon. A stsr-gemmed heaven looks down upon a wondrous scene, unreal, awe some and inspiring.
 This great work of the government possesses unusual attractions for the engineer and the layman. It is To- cated in valley which has been the abode of three races, one of which lived here when Caesar sat upon his throne. In an age forgotten the cliff dwellers built their eyrielike homes alcng the canyons of this stream, and in the narrow valleys the lines of their irrigation canals may yet be traced. Centuries later the Apaches came, and for many years their tepees dot ted the basin. Then came the white man, who sought to reconquer the des- ert, which had resumed its sway after the cliff dwellers vanished.
 The Eattle with unfriendly nature proved tco much for the pioneer, and Uncle Sam took a hand in the fight. No problems could daunt his engin- eers. They laughed at floods and mocked at desolation. 4 dam site was discovered sixty-two miles from a railroad and they proceeded to con- meet it with civilization by marvel ous road which winds its way for forty miles through deep canyons, along the face of frowning precipices, over leaning cataracts, and across broad areas of treeless desert. It opens up to the transcontinental traveller new region of compelling interest and of splendid scenery. Better than that. it provides an easy thoroughfare for the transportation of heavy machinery of all kinds and the supplies for the new community which sprang into life ai- most at word.
 And this community affords almost a story in itself. for it is different from others, which, ephemeral-like, spring up in the far West. It is lo- cated in great basin rimmed by high mountains. Through the bottom of 1t flows the waters of salt River and Tonto Creek, the streams meeting at the southern end of the basin, and emerging from It through canyon 700 feet deep in the Salt River Noun tains This canyon is the only outlet of the basin. If one would emerge by another route, 1t must be by that of mountain roads and trails. Although this was once the favored rendezvous of the oid-time outlaw and cattle thief, offering safe refuge from pursuit, the bustling little city, of Roosevelt is strangely unlike the average new town of the West. There are no saloons, no gambling. and the bad man with ready six-shooter aud bowie knife is con sricuousiy absent.
 It is government town, and the rules laid down are simple and effec- tive. Uncle Sam owns the ground upon which the town is erected, and the people are there merely by suf- ference. No man may occupy town lot which faces the main street un- less he is engaged in a legitimate busi- ness, and his continuous possession of the property depends upon his own conduct. The results are in marked contrast with those which follow the