The Holbrook news., 1910-06-10
Describing Dam In
 Technical World
Illustrated Article Shows Wonders Q
 Great Work.
A Tribute Paid to Ihe Pima and MaricOpa
 Indians.

Now that the Roosevelt dan
 is nearing completion, it is re-
 ceiving a great deal of attention
 from the big magazines of the
 country. Final Work on the
 Roosevelt Dam,' in the June
 number of the Technical World,
 is profdsely illustrated article
 by Rene Bache and Ralph F.
 Jenney.
 Bache is a well known magaz-
 inc writer. while Jenney is an
 engineer at the dam. The data and the photographs wirh which
 the article is illustrated were
 furnished by Jenney and put into shape by Bache.
 The photographs are very good, indeed. One is of the nearly completed dam from above showing the nearly completed re- servoir; another shows the dam from below and also the power house. The the others are of the transmission line, one being of stretch in the Fish Creek coUn- try, one of a relay station and the third of a single pole.
 As the article is valuable for reference purposes, it is repro duced here:
 Uncle Sam is making a new de- parture. Up to now, on thUse arid areas of the West which are being transformed into garden spots by irrigation works built under the reclamation act he has contented himself with furnish ing water. But very soon he will start in to supply power, in the Salt River valley of Arizonaj and the first use mace of the power will be to moisten 10000 acres of land on the Pima Indian reser- vation. which is to be divided in to small farms and cultivated by the Pimas and Maricopas.
 This, incidentally, will be an act of somewhat tardy justice and recompence to 9 tribe of h. dians which since time immem- orial has always been most friend ly to the whites. They were peaceful and agricltu1 al, raising | crops of corn, beans, and squas- hes in the valley aforesaid, until, a few years ago, the white peo- pie went above them on the river drew off the water through big canal. and left their fields dry. Their ditches no longer brought the requisite fluid; their crops failed, and. deprived of their means of subsistence, they be- came beggars and vagabonds.
 It is a matter of record that these Indians were never known to molest a white man; and for the whites their reservation was always safe refuge against the marauding Apaches. The return they got was wretched enough. l But now the reclamation service through the development of power at the Roosevelt dam, is in a position to restore to these un- fortunate people the fruitfulness of their lands: and the indians those, at all events, who are eft are getting ready to go back to their old farming pursuits.
 The works at the Roosevelt dam, near Phoenix, Arizona, will develop 25. 900 horse power. Part of this will be used to irrigate 50,000 acres which are above the level of the gravity canal requir ing that the water shall be lifted Another portion of the available energy will be utilized to pump water from wells for the Pima reservation. In addition there is a surplus, which has already been leased under contract to light the city of Phoenix; and more power will soon be available, from the same source. for supplying light and poWer to farm houses thr-