Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-07-08
CANAL DAMAGE At
PHOENIX IS ABOUT
$4,000
Irrigation Projects Suffer
Heavily From Recent Rains
at Arizona Capital, Though
Reservoir is Not Hurt.

Phoenix Aris luly AccuIdme
tu 'hc best estimates available "a,
present hv damage to the irrigation
bitches iu this vicinity. due to the cN.
traordiuaH rains OF SUNDAY and tn
days proceeding will be about $40.
uuH This g. the estimate made by
Eu.inre' Howard Reed
4 big force OF men was organized
sunday more we're added Yesterday
ana by today il Is expected there viii
hc three CO.. four hundred men ,n-
sagcd Ia repair work al one place OF
another Most of the work YESTERDAY
was in repairing breaks on the lower
canals and in the lale.als from the
Arl10nn east OF Phoenix Nothing
could Ic done YESTERDAY az the big
breaks ia tac Arizona, for the reason
that the water was SIN ruuuing ont.
Notwithstanding none was coming in
irom the siNeI and the ground was
too soft tu get uto with teams Tha.
WORK viii probably Dee undertaken 10.
udy
Though Hood let, the canal al
Evergreen ana another az Indian
Bend above ScOttsdalu there were
mo- breaks In tho canal u was water
elcased by the waste gates THE
water flowed across the desert 90
salt River above Tempe aud going
down fhc river took 0ut the iuinl
head brush dam
The worst ujouhs in the cnual were
on ihc north hdnh lcNard Canclbact
mountain and between The mower
house ai the Arizona tails and SCOTS.
dale There we've three OF these
breaks, the larger one being las.
aboy, The power house where the
ditch crosses a on The water pour.
ga out oi tho canal aud circling
around Ihc power house, broke
hack into IL again just below the
plant From here /, came down he.
tween the high banks OF The ditch an.
~ u reached the head oi De- Cruas.
cut canal whore the banks are low.
CT There the water not only filled
the canal aud he ClussCut hut
swept over the head OF the latter
~ inches deep, ANA over the adioin.
ing ranches
\ mile and half further down
he Arizona canal, M the head ut
lateral 4. the south bank of the
Arizona was washed out clear down
wv fAN'N'Nf W wv wv NNtlt va Ntlf iNNINNH
for q distance OF $50 ltot II was
this break that asa the most damage
80 the farming country and through
81 came the creator part oi The wntcr
that inundated wlh, area from the
| Arizona canal 10 the tcwn ditch into
which It poured It's fl1od having In
the meantime filed the Grand canal
To overlooking
There were two other breaks in
The Arizona still farther west near
the excavation and It was through
these the water came that crossed
ne Fleming ranch, submerged "a,
Osborn district ana flooded Even
green addition 20 Phoenix
The water that washed out IN
| Iuilroad at Portland was the surface
| flow that accumulated between the
Crosscui canal and the red buttos
ana did not como from Oh, Arizona
| canal
The division gates between ths
Salt River valley aud the Mailcopt
/ canal were washed uut ana thor,
we're innumerahle small breaks al
over the distributing system
There was no break in the Alizon,
canal west az lateral The Glen
dale flood WAS All surface water
thal fell Ia The Glendale country
Work was started IN every division
OF the canal system. repair ag th,
smaller breaks The laterals from
the Arizona, east OF the Park road
were literally iora 10 pieces. Nj
Reed who was raised in The stat,
of Maine. said he way the waite
was tearing across the country on
sunday was about the must wlcke,
sight he ever saw The Maine rlytu
in the sprinRtimo we're placid sirealn
hy comparison The awtulnes7 OF I
WAS in the fact that there seemed Z,
be no place for the water To 20
Strangely enough, the storm e
latest advices had had no effect .
the reservoir Withstandlng 81 Z
known there was at least l'ti