Arizona republican., 1911-01-28

 THE PROJECT Arthur p. Davis and PdPtu
 of Engineers R OOSEVELT AND SACATON Both Have Been Visited and Today Will Be De- voted to a Trip Over the Canal System Connected With Project.
ROOSEVELT AND sAcATON

ATliuT r. DdNiS, CuleI engineer Ol the reclamation service and his party of travelling companions, arrived here last evening about sundown from an automobile tour that embraced a trip from Tempe to Roosevelt on Wednes- day. the return to Mesa on Thursday and a visit to Sacaton yesterday. Be side Mir. Davis the party is composed of l.. C. Hill, supervising engineer of the southern division; O. F. Ensign of Los Angeles, chief electrical engineer; A. J. Wiley of Boise, consulting engineer. and MT. and Mrs. F. F.. Wey- mouth of Boise, Mir. Weymouth being the supervising engineer of the Boise project. They will be in Phoenix and vicinity today and tonight and Sunday afternoon they will all proceed to Yuma for an inspection of the Yuma project. All except MT. Hill who lives here, and MT. Ensign, who has relatives here, are stopping at the Ford hotel
 For Mir. Davis the visit is one of gen eral inspection of the progress of work on the project. MT. Ensign is here noting the progress of the electric in- stallation at Roosevelt and in the val ley, and the other gentlemen are in- specting the southern projects for the first time for whatever they may see of value to them in somewhat similar operations in the north. They have all been in New Mexico, where they assembled as a board to determine up- on the equipment that will be neces- sary in the construction of the big Engle dam on the Rio Grande To re- turn north via Phoenix and Yuma is but little added expense in either time or money and they have improved their opportunity to look over these pro- jects
 The Engle dam will be about as high as the Roosevelt dam, but longer and will contain greater yardage. The Boise project calls forsa dam on the Boise river that will also be little larger than the Roosevelt dam, though it will not form so large a basin. The dam will be both higher and longer than the Roosevelt dam. Messrs. Davis and Weymouth will be called upon in the near future to direct their engineering talent toward the Boise dam and in both that structure and the Ehgle dam there will be problems to solve in connection with which the experience and demon- stratiOn at Roosevelt will not come amiss. In short, it has become ~ac- cepted fact in the reclamation service that man building large dams cannot 1 know too much about his business and each project has its own lessons An advantage the service has enjoyed. too. | is that with a large number of big | projects and capable engineers con stantly employed, by keeping in close | touch with each other. a great deal of | value has been determined in | a comparatively brief space of time
 Today will probably be spent by the l engineers in an inspection of the north ! side canal system from the present op- | erations in sthe rock cut this side of | Granite Reef to the lower end where | there Is much present and proposed | work in the way of bettering the dis | system.
 Mir. Davis was last here sometime | last spring, in May or June. so his | present view of the dam was the first | since it neared completion The waste ways, bridges and the coping of the | main dam have all been built since his | last former visit. He was well pleased |
 
 are today and justifiably proud of the | of the construction. It | will take the contractor about ten days | to finish the coping on the dam. which | NIT. Davis says is particularly attract | I've. It is being built of carefully se- l Iected rock of varying colors and is | quite ornamental as we'll as massive | and secure. That will practically fin | sh the work of the contractors. except | for little cleaning up in places. The | government has yet to construct a | gate house and tool house at either end l of the dam, that not being included in | the contractors work, but these are ! minor jobs and will not take long. so | for all practical. water restraining pur | poses the dam is now complete.
 Speaking of the massiveness of the | construction and the restraining power | of the water, MT. Davis remarked upon | l fact that has hitherto been noted to | some extent and that is the little | springs thatshave appeared in the river | banks or canyon walls below the dam. | There were a few there before the dam | was built, but they have increased in 1 That fact, however, creates | no alarm. They were expected. and the | engineers would have been surprised | had they not appeared. They are due | to the greater amount of water forced | by the pressure of the stored water above. through the miniature Assures