Arizona republican., 1909-12-28

{ ing the Florence people were A C. ! Sieboth the resident reservoir engineer, 1 Charles R. SliGh of Grand Rapids, one | of the capitalists concerned in the ! building of the proposed reservoir. T ] C. Eagin a Florence banker. C. G. ! Powell of the Florence Commercial ! company. P NJ. Fulton a Florence far mer, O. J. Baughn Florence attorney. | E. J. Jeffers of Florence and J. M. Jamison of this city. attorney for the of Florence and Phoenix was also an
 interested listener
 The principal speakers were Mir Sieboth and Mr. Sligh. the other gen tlemen adding explanation to various
 points when the occasion demanded it
 Mr. Sieboth explained the maps he placed before the committee and point
 ed out his arguments designed to dem
 onstrate that the railroad company could construct it's track along the high line and secure just as low per
 centage of grade as it could by utiliZ- ing the low line. He said the grade by either line should not exceed one-half of one per cent. The natural grade of the river is sixteen feet to the mile, he said and that of the railroad would be g feet per mile. He admitted that it would cost the company some addi- tiOnal expense to build on the high line. He estimated this added expense at not to exceed s20O.OO0 and said the Southern Pacific at one time had es- timated it at only half that much while the Santa Fe when it owned the Phoenix and Eastern had made an es- timate of approximately S140,O00. The gentlemen admitted that the submerg ing of lands in the vicinity of San Car los would result in damages to the railroad property and the reservoir projectors had taken into consideration a probable expenditure of half mil lion dollars to settle these damages. They said the railroad as already con structed had made no longer available at this time the Twin Buttee or the Riverside sites for reservoirs and that if its plans for the San Carlos site were. matured it would preclude any reservoir construction on the Gila. The proposed reservoir. it was contended. would furnish water for approximately 100000 acres of land which would be tisHA itlhtii dAhth VI Nif FNFipBth l'- sources of the territory and would not interfere with the railroad construc- ton on the high line, which they in sisted is just as feasible except that it might cost couple of hundred thousand dollars more than on the low line
 Mir. Sieboth said he wanted to be quoted as just as anxious as anybody to see the railroad built but he did not want it to interfere with the storage project. He believed that both could and should be secured. Respecting the discussed railroad grade of oneS Shaif per cent per mile he said it,was about equal to the present grade of Central avenue in this city. He also added that the curvature of the road would naturally be less on the high line then on the low line.
 MT Slgh spoke several times and very interestingly He said he owned some property here and expected to come here about the middle of January with his family. He expects hereafter to spend portion of every winter in Phoenix and to become closely iden- tified with the intrests of the terri tory He was asked more directly about his reservoir plans and said that the estimates of cost of the project were approximately s4,000.000 or $40 per acre for the lands to be watered. including the half million that might have to be paid for damages caused by the overflowing of lands in the reservoir basin He said the plan in a general way is to proceed on mutual lines. The company does not propose to merely sell water rights but to