The Arizona sentinel., 1909-12-02
HuQe Irrigation Projects

tnero to OeSfD OperdGIOIlS ou Oho of the largest private irrigation projects in the country, which will cost 5000, 900 and reclaim 100. GOO acres of rich valley land in the vicinity of Florence, in Pinal county. An Associated Press dispatch from the capital says: "Attordey Duane B. Fox, of Washington, D. C.; M. J. Clark and Charles R. Slight of Detroit, Mich., and J. H. Quin- ton, senior consulting engineer of the reclamation service are in this city to confer with Attorney Jamison and Alfred C. Siebold regarding the plan, which is that intended to impound the waters of the San Carlos river by means of dam at the famous and much discussed San Carlos da amsite.
 
 Messrs. Clark and Slight are the financial packers of the prop osition; Fox is the Washington attorney for the promoters; Quinton is the engineer who has charge of the surveys and plans; Jamison is an attorney for the promoters and the locator of the San Carlos site, and Siebeld is the companys representative in Pinal county.
 Attorney Fox's especial duty at the present time is to direct the fight against the Southern Pacific to prevent it's building through Box Canyon and thus destroying the San Carlos project. MT. Fox has given the matter thor eugh investigation, and gives 1t as his opinion that when the matter comes up for hearing be- fore Secretary of the Interior Ballinger the railroad will be restrained from building through Box Canyon.
 "All the surveys in the vicin- f4y of the damsite and Florence have been completed, and as soon as the maps can be made and the field notes prepared they will be filed with the RaoG- ai:x Iand office, which wilt fer ward them to headquarters st Washington. As soon as Secre sary Ballinger has passed on this data the promoters will re- eeive their final permit to pro- ceed with the project and begin the actual construction of the dam and the canal system as well. The hearing and decision are expected to be made in the early part of the new year
 "All of the reservoir locations have been made in the name of Attorney Jamison, who has been actively engaged in the under taking for some time, and already several thousand dollars has been expended in arranging the preliminary details, with the re- suit that the project is now near CT consummation than eyer before.
 ''It is interesting to recall in this connection that the San Carlos dam project was the first large irrigation plan considered by the government, and the in yestigations made in connection with it did much to convince the government officials of the feasi- bility of irrigating vast areas in the west by impounding the waters of the mountain streams, which conviction has caused the building of such vast projects as the Roosevelt, the Yuma and other projects in Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Nevada, Wash iDgton and Wyoming.
 Owing to certain engineering difficulties presented at the San Carlos site, and also to the fact that this section of the territory is so scautIy settled that it would be necessary to organize a vast colonization enterprise in order that the land might be cultivated immediately and the government begin to be paid for it's outlay, the project was abandoned, tenn porarily at least, and the more feasible site at Roosevelt, on the Salt River, selected. As this WAS one of the initial DrOinctS