Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-08

disbursing officer of the Reclamation
 Service. who banks 1t for them in Phoenix.
 Today the butcher. the baker. the druggist, and general merchandise dealer are represented. A knight of
 the razor is on hand to lay waste the abundant hirsute adornments of the males. He is an enterprising chap. and has sequestered hot spring flow ing out of canyon near by, and the inhabitants now enjoy the luxury of a hot bath. It is an interesting spec tacle to view the population on Sun day morning. each equipped with tow el, patiently waiting the call of next"
 Amusements are not wholly lacking: baseball and quoits are popular. and in the evenings the town hall, ablaZe with lights, is given up to dancing. Males predominate, so there are no lady wall flowers. Notwithstanding this disparity no personal encounters have resulted, the slogan of the camp being flair play" and the rules of de- pertinent are rigidly observed. Each male is given a tag, and numbers 1 to 20 are accorded the first dance, those from 20 to 40 next, and so on.
 Just across the river the tepees of the swathy Apaches dot the plain. The warriors of old Geronimo, now Uncle Sam's faithful laborers. dwell in peace and harmony with his once deadly enemy, the white man. each doing his full share of labor in constructing the marvel of the age.
 And yet this city is doomed. Every stone that is laid in the narrow arch, which is to restrain the foaming river now rushing through the canyon, brings nearer and nearer the day when Roosevelt shall vanish beneath an in- land sea. When the great dam is completed, in 1908, and its massive gates of steel, weighing 500, 900 pounds are shut down, a rising flood will cover the site of the city with Poo feet of water.
 The ingenuity of man has been tax ed in this work Its isolated position, the difficult physical conditions, the tremendous and unexpected floods, have tried the metal of engineers. The enormous amount of cement required was in itself problem which forced Uncle Sam to turn manufacturer in order to solve it. Nature having kindly furnished an ideal site for a dam, was thoughtful enough to pro vide materials near at hand for mak- ing cement. A cement mill was quickly erected at a cost of S100, 900. The downward rush of the river was utilized for electric power to operate the mill, and many thousands of bar rels of first-class cement have already been used in the works.
 In acquiring the reservoir site Uncle Sam bought a ranch or two and has gone to farming. 4 lot of hay is put up for the horses. and yege- tables and garden sass" are furnish ed the camps of the government.
 So it is easy to see that the engineer who bosses the job has got to have clear brain. a broad grasp, and a ready adaptability to meet all kinds of conditions and difficulties.
 But while the city of Roosevelt, with the homes of its 1000 inhabitants, is doomed, fair valley is 10 be redeem ed, in which the agricultural possibili- ties are not exceeded in the world. Under almost tropical skies, with a siol of wonderful fertility, the farmer In Salt River Valley will cultivate his orange groves, his fig trees, his vines, while his broad meadows will yield him heavy haryests of alfalfa six and seven times year.
 The great lake which will be creat- ed by the Roosevelt dam is to be tap ped by canals hundreds of miles long and extending all over the broad val ley around Phoenix. Vast areas now absolutely worthless will be transform ed quickly into blossoming orchards and purpling vineyards, and hundreds of happy homes will dot plain where now the giant sahuarro rears it's spiny head and the gila monster roams at will.