Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-12
NEW INDUSTRY AT ROOSEVELT
 SOON ID BEGIN
It Will Be Operated By Uncle Sam, So the Corporation Swatters Can Find No Faut With the Enterprise.

when navigation begins about three
 months hence on Arizona's big inland
 lake at the, Roosevelt dam. No fault
 can be found with it by the corpor-
 ation swatters either, for this great
 transportation line will be operated
 by the government All of which
 means that the reclamation service
 has placed an order with some ore
 of the many gigantic ship building institutions of the country for ferry
 boat and a steel gasoline launch, 10
 ply between Port Roosevelt and Port O'Rourke on the Roosevelt reservior
 as soon as the basin fills with water,
 sufficiently to submerge the wagon
 road across it, and that is estimated
 to be about three months hence.
 The present highway between the
 Tonto basin country and Globe, it's
 nearest commercial center, is a wagon
 road that comes down to thA
 Roosevelt basin along Tonto creek, crosses somewhere in the vicinity of
 Roosevelt or )cst above 1t and pass.s
 on to the PiIal creek road ou, It
 Globe No nther road ls easily ac-
 cessible to that country withou: gr ing a long way around, s.o the gcT-
 ernment, in cutting of the T01to
 people, IS m duty bound to provide a ferry. Wh sn the dam is fniEhed
 the wagon road will run iIlong the ridge hemning in ronlo crsGk on the west side, down to tEc q. nI which 1t will cross on top and then proceed on to Globe as at present. &Ltici- pating this the government has al ready consIrnc d the load a.6ns the Tonto creek ridge and 1t Is known in the service and i1 that ".hty as the high line road, being above the point that will mark the margin ot the lake wn3a the res srvoir Is fillCd.
 But the dam cannot serve as a bridge or crossing until 1t Is fin ished and in the meantime the Tonto settlers must have an outlet for the next years or two. so the ferry will be installed. On the Roosevelt side the road slopes gradually down to the river and on the other side where O'Rourke's camp stands a similar road will be built in the mountain side, with gradual grade, so the ferry boat with a proper apron can make a landing at any stage of the water in the basin.
 The ferry boat order win be g UT l'-Cl tOIlS dllO lS Ii ltCI wide. large enough for teams, and the motive power will be a seven horse power gasoline launch which will tow it back and forth across the basin. At first the trip will be a short one but as the basin fills it will lengthen until it will become quite boat ride on pretty deep water Where on Foot passengers desire to crass they can probably be accommodated by the launch alone, but when teams are to be transported, the launch will be lashed to the side of the ferry boat, which will be lowed across.
 A great deal has been said about the vicinity of the basin as a com ing pleasure resort and it surely will be, but it will be m&ch better win ter resort than summer resort. Prob ably the ideal season will be spring and fall. The altitude is not mucn more than a thousand feet above Phoenix and the basin when filled will rot be nearer than six or eight miles of the pine timber, so it is likely to be quite warm there in mid summer, though the heat will prob ably be somewhat tempered by the wind across the lake. It will be a drive of but an hour or so through from the north side of the lake to the finest kind of a pine covered noun tain country, ideal in the summer time. And in the winter time condi tions will be infatuating clear down to the waters edge. The climate will be but slightly cooler than PhOe- nix and there will be fine fishing and boating, just the place for both health and pleasure. What the town of Roosevelt will become, remains to be seen. Whatever it is 1t will be a new town built higher up on the l hillside but the chances are it will be merely the largest of several at | tractive places that will be fitted up along the edge of the basin on one l side and another.
 In the meantime. the fishermen and | the fish and game commissioners | should be giving careful thought to l the proper planting of good game fish in the basin at the earliest | moment, when there Is assurance that 1 any considerable number will stay ] there. If splanted the coming sum mer or fall, they will get nicely ac-i and secure year or two's growth before the basin becomes a !! pond of notable size The river Is now full Of little fish whose natural | habitat is in this section, but they l are not renowned for their quality | or sameness. There may be fun in them but P. eventually the ! Roosevelt basin should be a producer for many local markets If the right kinds of fish are placed there and protected until they get start It should become the Catalina of Ari- zona. for winter tourists, only the scenery far surpasses anything on that famous little rock island to gay nothing of the delightful trip be tween Phoenix and Roosevelt.