Arizona republican., 1909-04-25
RISING TIDE
 AT ROOSEVELT. Water Within Four Feet of
 Lowest Point of Dam HTS WITH ALL GATES OPEN
High Point On the Dam Is 13SFeet--Much Interesting D. ta Concerning Dan Weekly Chapter of Acci- dents and Grimes.

Roosevelt, Ariz., April 22.-(Special
 Correspondence to The Republican.)-
 The water in the reservoir has been
 rising steadily since our last report,
 when it was at a height of eighty four and one-half feet, and this de- spite the fact that the gates are
 wide open at the dam. The increase
 during the last four days has been at the rate of a foot a day. And this also despite the fact that with every foot of rise the area of the lake grows longer and broader. The pres ent height of the water is ninety-two feet The lowest point in the dam is but four feet higher, or ninety six feet elevation.
 The surface area of the lake as it now stands covers an area of three thousand and eighty acres. Or in other words there is enough water in the basin right now to cover level tract of land containing S1,S30 acres with one foot of water over the entire surface. The water is still on the rise and most of it coming down the Salt River. We now have a body of water here that IS nine miles in length and will average three quarters of a mile in width for the entire nine miles, varying in width though from a quarter to a mile wide. Somewhat of an inland sea, is it not? How does that look to some of the croakers who say that not enough water falls to ever fill the reservoir. Just remember this is the second time the water has been up high inside of four months, and most of the four months with the gates wide open to let as much as possible to a certain amount escape meanwhile. It lookS us though they will have more trouble holding it down than filling it up during the construction of the dam.
 The highest point of the dam reaches up to 1SS feet high. The mean average height of the whole stands between 11S and 119 feet high. The average addition per day to the body of the dam for the last week stand at 675 cubic yards. Since our last report of 51O feet as being the length of the dam, it mas grown to a length of about 55v feet. Ten thou sand one hundred barrels of cement have gone into the dam since April 1st, with an approximation Of l4,2OO yards of masonry. On the first of April there was a total bulk of 206,- 373 cubic yards in place in the dam. This with the addition since the 1st of April of 14,2OO cubic yards brings the figures up to grand total which amounts to some 220,5 cubic yards in round numbers.
 The sand mill has been running two shifts with overtime on each shift, but owing to the increasing amount being used every day it will be necessary very soon to put on a third shift, or one TOT each eight hours in the twenty-four.
 The water in the reservoir is be- tween three and six feet higher than during the flood of the latter part of December last. Eight or ten tall cot tonwood trees situated some two miles up the Tonto, and which have been struggling for existence, with their topmost branches showing above the top of the water up to about a week ago, are gradually disappear ing from view beneath the ever ris- ing surface of the lake. These trees