Arizona republican., 1909-05-19
INCREASING FLOW
 AT ROOSEVELT DAM
Good Volume of Water Now in the River-Self Denial of Right Mind ed Water Users.

There was a fine increase In the | flow of water in the canals yesterday and a still finer one in the flow over the Roosevelt dam, the effect of which will not be greatly felt until today l However. between the twenty four | hours ending last night, water was | turned on nine tracts of sugar beets and on some other crops that were ir the greatest need. By this evening it is believed nearly all the crops that are in greatest need undr the Salt and Arizona canals will be receiving the blessed flow of irrigation water and some time during the week the stren- uousness of the situation should be nicely passed. It will take longer of course to give everybody what he wants and what he is entitled to but a little patience and all will be well.
 The water yesterday morning was flowing over the dam 3-10 feet deep and 40 feet wide, having raised S1a inches in the preceding A hours. It measured about 400 second feet and about 90 second feet were being dis charged through the penstock tunnel. Four hundred and ninety second feet tludlS ONti ltsVNU lllNiltS WUltDs duutO to the 7,500 inches coming from the Verde yesterday, ought to make a good showing at Granite Reef today.
 If the water raises another six inches at Roosevelt by this morning, which it is confidently expected it will do, there should be about 500 second feet going over the dam and 100 through the penstOck tunnel. making 24,O00. inches coming down the Salt, or with the Verde flow. better than 3O.OOO inches in the river
 During this unlocked for water shortage a great deal is constantly happening to irritate the men who have the administration of the, water in hand. The superintendent and gan jeros are doing their very best to make a little bit of water go just as far as possible and hit the most needful spots Now and then there is some favored one who is given stock water or some other urgent present necessity is provided for. who can not restrain himself from taking the water a little longer than he agrees to since it is coming already and he has good use for it This is hardly fair. though it may be human nature, and will not help the credit of such water users with their nefghbors or with the off cials
 Such cases are exceptional and are mentioned only to contrast them with some more pleasing cases that repre- sent the truly cooperative and Chris tian spirit that has been the valleys salvation SO far and will be in the fu- ture. Reference is made to cases where grain men and alfalfa men have told the officials out of the goodness of their hearts to pass up their water run in favor of beet men or others who needed water worse than they did one grain man came in the other day and said he had 32O acres in grain that should have had a little water, and though he could still use water to good advantage on some of it. he would gladly give up his run and get along the best he could, if his neigh bors whose crops were in a critical condition could be given his water. The offer was of course accepted with pleasure It is this sort of a spirit that will make the prosperity of this val ley and that sort of self denial is some thing new in a country where men have been in the habit of getting their water with shot gun. The greater part of the grain is beyond the saving grace of water. Some is fully made without injury and some is too mature for further irrigation There is little of it that can use water to good ad- vantage. but where one can pull along without it even to the suffering of a little financial loss, it may make for his final profit to give it to the crops that need it worst just now.