Arizona republican., 1912-07-25
INSPECTION OF
 CONSTRUCTION
Committee of Water Users Visits Crosscut and Pow CT Plants Yesterday; the Grant Brothers Complete Contract of Crosscut

Grant Brothers on Tuesday com pleted the work they had contracted to do on the new crosscut canal run ming from the Arizona to inc. red buttes. Yesterday the construction committed of he board of governors of the water Users association, went out to inspect the work If ts taken for granted that they got over the ground all right and got home safely last evening but nothing had been heard of them at the water builline a+ closing time last night. The commit tee consists of President J. P. Orme H. J. Hanson and Joseph Cope.
 The canal is now completed as far south as the power house site near the buttes, with the exception of 1900 feet at the upper end over which no right of way has vet been secured. and a concrete Viaduct about 600 feet long midway IT the canal, that will have to be built over a wash. This will be done in due season and in ample time for the use of the canal as soon as the power plant is built.
 The 1900 feet referred to will be ex pens1Ve Costruction at best as it cross es piece of low land, the Arizona at that point being much higher than the surrounding country. Two plans were considered, one being the construction of submerged conduit or siphon and the other being the building I'D of ca ! nal banks making it virtually a via duct. The latter is expensive work as ! 1t will take great yardage of dirt to build up the banks, even after the ditch proper is lined with steel and concrete. But the siphon plan would cost still more by about $3O.00O The ditch plan would involve borrowing ! dirt from a large acreage adjoining. practically destroying it's usefulness | for agricultural purposes so the own i CTS have declined to give a right of way 1 privilege but are willing to sell the 1 land. Negotiations to that end now are under consideration.
 A fine roadway has been built along ! the bank of the CrOsscut as far as it l is completed and when the canal is l finished this roadway will become a part of the big boulevard system the reclamatiOns service is developing by building such roads along all the lar 1 ger canals. When the CrOsscut finally ! is completed one may go north from | Phoenix on Central avenue, to the Ari- 1 ZOna canal thence up that canal to its
 head or on reaching the CrOsscut head
 can turn south and follow the CrOsscut
 down to the power house. thence alone
 the upper reach of the Grand canal
 which is now all finished but the tres.
 tie work. and back to Phoenix via thu
 Tempe road.
 Tn construction committee yeSterda,
 planned to visit not only te Crosscu
 but the work at the Arizona Falls pow 1 CT house where the siphOn spiT1way Ina
 been finished and is now in use.
 Coffer dam being thrown across tn
 canal to enable the excavation for tn
 power house. After looking the Cross cut over the committee intended an . probably did go to Granite Reef an
 cross to the South Consolidated pOwe
 house The building for the powe , ] plant there is finished and the siphO spillway will be completed this weel
 A reclamation service force in the em
 plov of the Water Users" associate is installing the machinery which it 1 expected will be in operation in tf i course of the next month.