Arizona republican., 1908-05-13
GRtAT AUTO TRIP
 IN BIG MACHINE
See Roosevelt Even If You Miss Your Sunday Trip Says Marshall Kay
 Hamilton Aggregation.

Hamilton Aggregation.
 l There returned last evening from
 Granite Reef the following party of ten: MT. and Mrs. w. H. Kay, MT
 and Mrs. Harry Kay, MT. and Mrs. E.
 Gang, MT. E. A. Marshall and his son
 Edward A Marshall Jr., and MT. S. w. and S. l.. Hamilton. They all went
 in the large Manhattan touring car l owned by the Castle Hot Springs Hotel company and leased by the Phoenix Auto company The car is a
 50 horse power machine and weighs 52O0 pounds. The passengers added
 2000 pounds. This is the largest mo-
 tor car that has yet negotiated the
 rather difficult hills and canons on the
 road over and through the mountains G. l.. Leitheiser was the chauffeur and he was ably assisted by J. w. Volz,
 who went along as guide as this was
 Leitheister's first trip. These auto artists were most skillful in their
 management and came through with | out a mishap of any kind and too
 much praise cannot be given them for the difficult undertaking. One of the party submits this brief account Of the | trip: We left Mesa for the SO mile run at 10 a. m said Mir Marshall, and | at the rate of 15 miles an hour quick | ly crossed the desert road and plunged | into the mountain ranges, the big car climbing the hills with the greatest
 ease. AS we rapidly ascended the | slopes the scenery changed and be-
 came most picturesque and grand be- | ing excelled by anything in America
 or Europe. There were rapid success
 sions of tall, towering gloomy cliffs,
 hairbreath canons and yawning bot
 tomless chasm.
 | A stop was made at Tortilla Flats
 and the ladies served a luncheon most palatable and of substantial propor-
 tions. Then we were off again and
 slid down the long four mile hill, pass
 ed Fish Creek located in a mammoth
 amphitheatre and surrounded by huge
 columned rocks almost a mile high
 and came to the deliciously cool road along the banks of the Salt river
 which was full of water and a success
 sion of scintilating rapids. We arriv- | ed at Roosevelt at D. m. and were
 most courteously received and enter ! tained by the government officials of
 the reclamation service. That night we
 strolled through the town which is
 soon to be submerged and coming
 down by the lower road saw the great dam by moonlight. My first glimpse of this structure from the top of the | hill as the car turned the curve was
 rather disappointing. The mountains and all around were so very, very big and way down 400 feet below the dam looked so very. very small. That night | however as l stood on the bank of the river and looked up at the dams pres | ent height of seventy-five feet and across it's present width of one hundred | and twenty five feet and realized that the foundation was thirty five feet be- | low and that the dam when completed | would be in the stupendous class. The began in a startling way to dawn on me that it was already wonderful ac- complishment and in a brief time wolud be in the stupendous class. The falls occasioned by the water being di-
 verted from the power canal into the river 200 feet below equalled Niagara in its beauty if not in its grandeur. The next morning we were escorted by an accomplished assistant and went on the top of the dam and saw the huge granite rocks weighing tons and tons skillfully and permanently placed in their cement bed never to move again-nowhere in the world is there to be witnessed such triumph of man over nature and so many in tricate engineering feats as one can see at Roosevelt. Within few months the present gap in the dam will be closed and the water impounded.
 At II a. m. our chauffeur announced the Manhattan ready for another run and we started for Granite Reef about sixty-five miles away. That night at eight with our flashlights Illuminating the road we swung into the tented city by the river. The L. S engineer in charge kindly secured lodgings for us and served an excellent breakfast the next morning. To do without the di- version dam at Granite Reef would be leaving Hamlet from the play. It is built of solid concrete and founded on bed rock and may be depended upon to withstand the flood waters and dl- vert them into the main canals on either side of the stream for distribu- tion through laterals over 100000 acres of land. This dam will be completed within three weeks and this valley
 
 ble about the washing away of dams and insecure headgates and the far mers will always be able to have all the water that comes down the river
 Won't that be a consummation bene- fical to all! I have said more than l in tended-one can talk on and on about such a trip and not tell tenth of it. you must go and see it. Must tell your sister and your cousin and your aunt and your uncle to go. Every man in Arizona should go and see these wonderful enterprises. No one1 could possibly regret such trip. The impressions received will last a life time. We left Granite Reef about noon in time to catch the train from Mesa to Phoenix at 1:2O p. m. All we can say to our fellow Phoenician is to go even if he misses his summer trip. No, can't give you any figures. You must go to the statistician of the reclamation office for these.