Arizona republican., 1910-03-27
SOUTH GILA SUIT
 SOON 10 CLOSE
Mayer Interests Rested Their Case
 Yesterday.

The interests of the south Gila Ca
 nal company. in the intricate suit now
 before the land office to establish wa
 ter rights on the Gila, rested their
 case yesterday afternoon The Den dora company, one of the five liti- gants put J. L. Grant, their only wit
 ness. on the stand; so that beginning
 Monday will be heard the witnesses for the Aztec company and the Southwest
 ern Fruit and Irrigation company. It
 is possible that the whole case, with the exception of submitting briefs, will be concluded by Wednesday.
 Colonel Woodwork. who is assoCi ated with the Mayer interests in the South Gila company. was asked yes terday if they would appeal their case should an adverse decision he rendered by Receiver Arnold.
 Most certainly we will appeal. said the colonel, we have too much at
 stake not to"
 The testimony introduced. by the
 South Gila Canal company includes ela borate reports of eminent engineers ls to the feasibility of the project. One
 report is by William Barclay Parsons. tine man whom New York has to thank for it's subway He visited the dam site in 1894 and his report goes to show that I50-foot dam is praCtiCa ble Such dam would impouud water sufficient to form lake of 60.O0O acres and would conserve 32OO.o0O acre-feet.
 or enough water to irrigate SOO.0o0 acres of land Ii is the plan of the | dam to attn heiGhth of 125 feet or
 perhaps the maximum of 150 feet. Another noted engineer. perhaps the foremost man of his profession in the world. who visited the scene of the project. was sir William F. Crouch He IS the man who constructed the Firth If Forth bridge at Edinburgh, Scotland generally considered one of the most difficult feats of engineering of modern times. Sir William came to Arizona in 1893 for the South Gila company. and his report is a part of the testimony and records. Another of the engineers employed by the same company is Benjamin <. Church. who was in charge of the designing and ; construction or the Croton reservoir of New York
 The first witness yesterday was I ! Harrington of Phoenix. who testified ! that the masonry put in by the origin ators of the project is practically in l the same condition and intact today. ! That part of the masonry that was de- | stroyed. presumably by dynamite as l testified to Friday by Notbush. was
 one of the diversion dams and not
 the main dam. G. w Cameron of | Agua Calientc. described the manner ! in which the masonry had been laid and John B. Long of Phoenix testified ! to the condition of the dam in 1893. 1 H r Underwood testified to being the i representative of Colonel Woodwork for many years his evidence being in | troduced to show that the claims of 1 the South Gila company have not | lapsed in the interim. F. P. MCCrea Y chief engineer of the Mayors. vas also
 on the stand
 II | l.. Grant. for the Dendora com | pany. testified to the construction work
 that has been accomplished by that company in the way of digging canals
 He said they have completed four miles of canal The sites claimed by
 the .Dendora company conflict with those claimed by the South Gila. If the Gila company should build it's reser-
 voir the lands of the Dendora com
 pany would be sixty feet under water