Arizona republican., 1909-07-18
Waters of Roosevelt Lake
 Holding Their Own TOW PART" 10 BE RAISED
Mexican Watermelon Ped ler's Incidental Reference to a Part of His Cargo Which Turned Out to Be a Dead Child.

 as since it was first turned over the top of the dam and the lake is the focus on which all eyes are turned as soon as they arrive within sight of it. Each and all agree that it is the largest body of still water in Arizona and to the eyes of some. at least, who have never been outside of the ter ritory, it is rather an awesOme sight and about the first question of many travellers is if the water out in the middle is over a mans head, and seem to marvel when told that it would take some twelve or fifteen tall men standing on each others head to reach bottom in many places. Large numbers of campers arrive here daily bound for the mountains beyond in hope of finding cool spot to rest away from the tOrrid heat of the valleys below for a week or two and many for a longer time, as their means will allow.
 We understand O'Rourke & Com pany will stop work on the high part of the dam and commence to fill in the low place left for the passage of water over the top of the dam while the gates were shut down for neces- sary repairs to them and to the tun- mel. Two derricks will be kept work ing to fill this section, while part of the time three will be found neces- sary to be used. The cement mill will shut down about the 1st of August for necessary repairs, and is expected to remain so for a month, after which it will again be started up and the Crusher and drying and mixing de- partments will run two shifts of eight hours daily, while one burner will be required to keep up with this output by working same three whole shifts. As soon after as the demand and supply call for it, it will be turned on again full force.
 O'Rourke X Company's ice plant has been furnishing all the way from 1 .75O to 5000 pounds of ice daily to the Roosevelt side of the river. The average amount required daily at New Town is some 1900 pounds. Sometimes the government ice plant seems to be on the bum and then O'Rourke X Company furnish them with about 1,5O0 pounds daily.
 When the wind blows here it is somewhat cooler. coming as it does over the large lake at our feet; but when it happens to stop while, the heat is simply nsufferable.
 J. r. Gray and MT. Schoenfeld took a couple of days in Globe, returning today.
 J. C. Evans, our justice of the peace, is also sojourning in Globe for a few days. Gray & Schoenfeld met the judge there and tried to go the pace with him, but were com pelled to beat an inglOriOus retreat. Any way they say they were going some for a while, and I guess they
 must have been if they kept in sight of J. C. even for a short while.
 A Mexican ranchman by the name of Duarte, brought load of water
 melons to town yesterday and when he came to the drug store asked Dr. Smith to buy a melon. The doctor,
 who is fond of good things, picked out one that suited his fancy and paid for same. As he was turning to leave with his purchase, the Mex ican told the doctor there was a child
 in the back of the wagon and request ed the doctor to look at and see what
 was the matter with it. The doctor had but to give one glance to know that the child was dead and had been for some ten or twelve hours. The child was buried here this morning c. w. Smith, chief engineer and J. w. Farmer and wife, have just re- turned from a weeks outing up al | the old saw mill among the pines of the Sierra Anchas mountains. Mrs. Paul Bovard and sister, Mary | A. Suskey. are taking an outing al 1 the natural bridge.
 Frank Tupper, general foreman o1 | the cement mill, has just returned i from an outing at Payson and Natural
 Bridge.
 w. w. Ames, shift foreman at the cement mill, has decided that Arizona weather here is too clQse an imitation | of hades for general comfort, and
 leaves in the morning for the balmS air of California and the shores ol l the Pacific.
 | Lon Asbury takes a pacation com
 mencing next Friday and will visit relatives at Payson, Dave Merrill | taking his place on the Mesa stage
 while he is absent.
 | Jimmie Jameson, who has beer | connected with the Roosevelt Mer- l cantile store in the capacity of clerk | in their grocery department has re-
 signed his position with them and went out by way of Mesa today.
 Your correspondent had a marrow i escape from injury this morning | While driving between the new towr and government headquarters, his | horse in ascending a hill became un- ruly and backed over the side of tho | grade landing the whole outfit, driver and all in the bottom of a gully among a lot of boulders. But news | paper correspondents being naturally l tough in the extreme, your reporter escaped practically unhurt, though | somewhat ruffled in temper and wear
 ing apparel and with his rig smashed