Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

site Of the town as soon as the dan
 reaches a few feet higher. As thu
 work progresses. one end of the dan will all the time be kept several fee higher than the other end, in order tC provide vent for the water in cas'
 of an unusual flood which could not
 be let out through the tunnel IT
 that case work need not be interrupted
 as the stone laying could proceed or
 the higher portion until the flood sub- | sided. While there may be some storage of water from the summer
 floods this year. provided there are nc
 further delays in the progress of the work. the volume of storage for the first twenty-five feet in depth would
 not be great After that. however. as the water increases in depth it will flood over a larger area in the basin and then the amount stored will be worth while. So that in another
 year if all goes well, there should be
 a large amount of water available for
 irrigation when it is needed.
 While the main structure of the
 Roosevelt dam is being built by q contracting firm. J. M. O'Rourke' &
 Company. and many of the other parts
 of the work have been done by con-
 tract, much of the more important
 work has been and is now being done directly under the engineers of the Re- clamation Service. One of the no<able
 pieces of work connected with the
 project was the building of the
 pooSaN-a1t raol ,rbiob ,vac cd almost entirely with Indian labor. the formerly warlike Apache. who in former years roamed that section in
 war-paint. lent themselves as energet-
 ic workmen to the service of the builders of this great irrigation pro-
 ject Another part of the work being done by direct labor is the building of the Granite Reef dam. On this struc- ture there has been laid approximately 30.000 cubic yards of concrete, with about Onethird as much more to be placed. This means that measured by the concrete in place. this dam is 15 Der cent done.
 Supervision over the whole project. together with like service for other. projects in Arizona and adjoining states. is in the efficient hands of Mir Louis C. Hill. With headquarters in Phoenix. he makes trips to inspect the progress of work on the Laguna dam across the Colorado at Yuma. for ir-, rigating q body of land in Arizona and another on the California side of the river. and to other projects in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas. As. sisting Mir. Hill locally. are Chester W. Smith, constructing engineer in charge of the work at Roosevelt; with the as- sistance of A. l.. Harris. J. W. Martin, constructing engineer. in charge of the work at Granite Reef; F. Teichman. designing engineer, who planned the gates for the sluicing tunnel and other parts of the work: w. A. Parish, engineer who has been in charge of the road building. and is now engaged in canal building with the assistance of Kenneth W. Shibley. whose title is that of junior engineer: J. D. Stan nard. second in command of the of flee forces and who will have to do with canal administration; Howard S. Reed. in charge of the water service department and the operation of the canals now in government control, and A. H. Demrick. electrical engineer who is experimenting the construction of the transmission power line.
 Any account of irrigation and the Salt River project would be incom- plete without mention of the Salt Riv- CT Valley Water Users Association. without which there would have been no project entered into by the govern ment officials in this valley. The ob jects of an association of water users under the Reclamation act are three fold: First. there is the securing of in the character of the rights to use water. to be enjoyed by practical irrigators under a given pro- ject Then there is the securing of the payment of money expended on the project. which means the repayment to the government of the money ad vanced for the work. In this case the association acts in a dual capacity that of agent for the government in collecting and as representative of the individual in transactions with the The third object is that of managing and administering the af- fairs of the project after storage has become a fact and the larger part of the payments have been made on the cost. With these objects in view. the Salt River Valley Water Users As sociation was organized and incorpo- rated in January. 1903,
 Briefly. the form of organization, which was the model for others sub secuently formed, is patterned after that of the state. With notifications to meet peculiar needs there are the legislative CT law-making body. in this. case called a council. and the executive force. or president and board of gov erncrs. who are virtually the directors or the organization. Divided into ten council districts. local representation is given all parts of the reservoir dis trict in the three members of the coun- l cil and governor from each district. J The governors and one member of the l council from each district are elected yearly, the councimen for term of