Arizona republican., 1906-05-25
PROSPECTIVE SITE
 OF DIVERSION DAM
Extension Dam ApprOVed--lncreased
 Flow of Water.

Engineer L. c. HiI Mrs. Hill and Miss Parker of Roosevelt, are in the city for a few days. and will remain at
 least until Monday. and possibly long
 CT MT. Hill came down to attend the
 trial of a liquor case that originated
 in the Roosevelt country, but it was
 postponed for the present Incidental
 ly, he is taking general look over the
 work under his direction in the val
 ley. The party stopped at Mesa We'd
 nesday and MT. Hill devoted the day to
 an inspection of a new road survey on
 that side of the river from Granite
 Reef to Desert Station on the Roose-
 welt road.
 This survey, or proposed new road is matter of considerable importance
 to the people of the valley. for it is
 another step in the direction of the
 securing of a permanent diversion
 dam. Though there has been no ofiic- ial announcement of the fact it is the generally conceded intention of the
 reclamation service to construct a di-
 version dam just as soon as the prop
 CT site can be selected; and though
 that site is not definitely known to anybody yet it it almost a certainty
 that it will be somewhere in that sec tiOn generally and somewhat indefi-
 nitely described as Granite Reef.
 This proposed road is to be utilized
 when completed. for the hauling of ce- ment from RooCevelt to the site of the diversion dam, and as laid out the
 road will touch any desirable point along the river.
 Learning yesterday that his pres
 ence would not be needed in court. B.
 A. Fowler and Dwight B. Heard ar ran artpu,pbiIa trir, tn CY.arito Reef and the Extension head. with MT. Hill as guest. They returned last night, after very strenuous, but a very profitable or at least very satis- flying day. When seen at the hotel last night. MT. Hill said the boring crew at Granite Reef was making good progress and recent results are grati- flying. At no point have they found bedrock clear across the river at less than G feet, but the latest borings have developed a narrower .chasm than heretofore, or rather, a narrower sub merged gulch that will have to be bridged by the dam or anchored in the sand. The drill men have been set at work now, finishing the line of holes | they were boring when the last big flood interfered with their operations. l It is already settled that a dam is V. ] is to discover the best place for it. From Granite Reef the party con | tinued it's travels to the intake of the Extension, where MT Hill made an in 1 spection of the work being done by | the Arizona Canal w. U. A. under the | direction of R. Fl. Collins. He pro- | nounced the new rock dam as a very | satisfactory structure and the build | ing of it a fine piece of work for the | amount of money expended. MT. Col l line is dumping about eighty cubic yards of heavy rock on the dam every | day now. and every yard of it means more water in the intake. The little railroad which transports the rock
 from the quarry to the dam also pass
 es over a bed of saId and gravel which
 is easily loaded and used for pudding 1 dam or chinking up the crevices
 between the larger boulders.
 Yesterday morning there was a flow
 of $500 inches in the intake and at
 about the same time the volume pass | ing Evergreen measured 5100 inches. | MT. Collins felt sure that by Saturday
 night he would have a head of 5000 | inches at the intake and by the time the higher dam is completed there may
 be 10000 inches. The third run of ! water over the Arizona lands will be-
 gin today and by Saturday or Sunday, it is expected the flow in the canal will
 be sufficient to fill every lateral sim ultaneously when the water will be allowed to run just as long as any farmer can make beneficial use of it.