Arizona republican., 1906-07-19
FIGHTING THE FLOOD
 OF Tilt RED COLORADO
Hen Wanted to Take Part in the
 Desperate Conflict.

Thomas Beach, representing Presi-
 dent H. T. Cory. general manager of
 the California Development company,
 arrived here yesterday morning from
 Yuma, will be here today and pos
 sibly longer, though he hopes to leave
 this evening. Mir Beach's mission is
 to secure a hundred laborers, or as
 large a part of that number as he can
 to work for two or three weeks and
 perhaps longer, for the California De-
 velopment company, in the building Of
 the railroad now under construction
 from Pilot Knob station on the South
 ern Pacific, a few miles west of Yuma
 to the intake of the Imperial canal.
 This railroad is to be used in trans
 porting lumber, rock and all other sup
 plies to the Improvements going on at
 the intake, designed to stop the flow of
 the Colorado flood waters into the Im-
 perial canal and thence into Salton sea. Two passenger coaches were yes terday placed at MT. Beach's disposal. and as soon as he can fill them, or either one of them, he will leave for Yuma. This he hopes will be today, for MT. Cory is greatly in need of men, and during the last few days has been making unusual efforts to get them.
 In securing the men needed, MT. Cory has the cooperation of the reclama- ton service, which has a mutual in terest in the success of his work, for the reason that if the flow into the canal continues the securing of the
 river bed from the intake to Yuma will greatly endanger the Laguna dam, now
 under construction by the government, above Yuma. The Southern Pacific
 railroad, of course has it's right-of way across the desert at stake. and for that reason is taking a decided interest in the success of the project to turn the waters back into their natural channel. The scarcity of labor just now is very ] irritating, for the reason that opera tions have reached a point where many
 men can be utilized to good advantage.
 The next day after Engineer Hill. who has charge of both the Roosevelt and Laguna projects, left here for Los
 Angeles, inquiry was made by MT. Cory whether MT. Hill could and would fur
 nish him with a good force of laborers
 for a few weeks. The message was forwarded. and presumably favorably acted upon by MT. Hill, for on Tues day directions were given Constructing Engineer Smith, who is in charge of the Roosevelt project in Mir. Hill's ab- sence to send a hundred men, or as many as possible, to Yuma at once, via Globe. MT. Smith could only spare thirty men who were willing to go. and telephoned to Engineer Parish fin Phoe- nix that he could not even send them
 by way of Globe, as the c. V. G. & N. railroad was washed out. He there fore arranged to have the thirty men come down to Mesa City via the wagon road, and asked MT. Parish to arrange for subsistence and transportation. He l also asked MT. Parish to secure, if pos sible, seventy more men to make up
 the quota of one hundred, informing him that all the men available at the
 Laguna dam had already been sent to the intake.
 As MT. Parish was at the Arizona head on Tuesday he did not get this in formation until he returned home late | in the evening. Then he began rus ting, but there wasn't a man in sight and he didn't know where to go to find one. He never realized before how few men there are in the world or what a terrible thing it is to have so much prosperity hanging around that every body is employed. Every bunch of la