Arizona republican., 1909-02-14
FERRY BUSY |. AT ROOSEVELT Six Hundred Teams and 400
 People Crossed in January REPAIRS 0H CEMENT MILL
Plant is Again in First Class Condition--Elks Ball Planned, the President and the Legislature Invited. New Gold Strikes.

Roosevelt, Feb. 11.-(Special cOrre- spondence of The Republican.)- )-The heights of the face of the dam still remains the same as given last week to-wit; highest, 10S; middle, 90; and lowest, 70 feet. Notwithstanding this work has been progressing as fast as ever. The back section of the dam has been receiving the attention of the force at work on the dam. This is rapidly being filled up to the face level and we expect to be able to change our table of heights as above shown by our next letter. The lake still shows up a large area of water, but is lower. It being at pres ent about 40 feet at the dam, in depth. It has been falling fast lately until the last 24 hours, since which time it has held it's own, owing to rains in the upper country. Several showers visited us during this after noon, but show prospects of clearing up. The weather has been quite cold here lately with pretty hard frosts every morning; while the breezes from the surrounding mountains con- tinue to chill the air during the day.
 The cement mill, which was dam aged in part, by fire awhile back, has been gone over thoroughly and is now in better shape than before the fire The roof that suffered most has all been retimbered, new bins have taken the place of those destroyed. Damaged machinery has been replac- ed by new, wherever it was neces- sary. The 20 barrel oil tank has been moved back to a safer position from the fire and heat of the burners and the mill had a thorough cleaning up. In the meantime-the grinding of ce- ment has gone steadily on since the starting up again of the plant. At the machine shop they are busy with the reconstruction of the hoist that was damaged by the fire and also changing a steam air compressor into one to be operated by electricity.
 At the carpenter shop which has had quite a large force of men em- ployed for several months, they have during the last ten days been rapidly thinning down to a normal working force, as all the rush work has been completed and only that which springs up from day to day is left to keep the men busy.
 At the mess house they have been quite busy lately changing help, sev- eral hands, who are composed of Japanese arriving and departing dur ing the week. Those arriving came mostly from Phoenix and those de- parting went to Globe. The ferry is doing quite a business since the water got high enough to start it. MT DePew, who runs it and who had to wait two or three months to get started, thought he had a snap for a while, but since actual business began in his line has had more than his share of work to attend to. Some 600 teams and 1400 people being ferried across during the month of January. Just now. with the lake at about half it's former height the landing on either side is rather bad on account of the mud left by the receding waters.
 Invitations are out for the First an nual ball, given by the resident Elks of Roosevelt. to occur on the 22nd of February; taking place at Recrea- tion hall, O'Rourke's camp. Invita- tions were extended to Brother lodges throughout the east, while a special one was sent to Theodore Roosevelt Washington, D. c. The legislature was invited to attend in a body. | is expected and Sincerely hoped that large eastern delegation will b. present, headed by our chief magis- trate, President Roosevelt, who ha:
 the honor of having the project here bear his name.