Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-21


 States Reclamation service: two with l the United States Army Engineers; eighteen with the state and two in CO., operation with private persons Al these gauging stations the height or stage of the rivers is determined each day by local observers, and in some eases, by automatic gauges, and meas urements of the discharge of the streams are made by engineers of the survey when feasible. From these data the quantity of water flowing past the various stations is deter mined
 Records of stream flow iH Arizona are Of particular importance in con, nection with the design, construction, and maintenance of power plants and irrigation projects; in investigations for the classification of the public lands and in Carey Act investigation. The records are much used in solving
 problems involving a knowledge of the quantity Of water, such as those relating to river regulation, stream
 pollution. water storage, sewage, and municipal water supplies Hydrome- tric records are also of great value ] for general statistical and comparative ! purposes. 1 The surface water investigations fin Arizona are carried on by c. A Cray State capitol. Santa Fe, New Mexico, land C. C. Jacob, ot the Federal survey t Mcso. Arizona. The cooperating state I official is R. II, Forbes, Director, Az lricultural Experiment station, Tucson. | Arizona.
 | r, - .t-. ,..a,s ago tl,s Cnfp- l missioner of Indian AffaiTs, having in ! mind the development Of the under i ground waters which would make the | grazing areas of the Navajo ReserVa, I tion more accessible to the Indian ! herders there, requested the Geolog i teal survey to cooperate in .stpa5 I of these underground waters. Proles- sor Herbet F. Gregory of Yale Uni'
 yersify. and also of the staff ot the , Geological Survey, was assigned 70 this task and began 9 series CT studies | which led to suggestions to the indian | Ofce as to the proper locations for wells. Fxperimental walls were sunk ii at locations indicated by Professor ' Gregory. and although some proved . failures the majority were successful l and when they were situated, as many of them were, in large tracts contain ing no surface water they made these
 tracts available for the herds of the
 Indians. These. results we're so prac,
 ticaf ard useful that each year since the work was started the Indian or
 flee has set aside such funds as II could spare in order that the work might be continued and eventually eN
 tended over the entire reservation Work is under way during the pres
 ent season. as it has been during the mast two or three years, aud will agaln
 result this year in definite suggestions as to methods of developing water supplies in areas where none are now
 known.
 The success of the Reclamation ser vice in developing underground waters in the Salt River valley in Arizona and of private capital in developing sim liar waters in many of the superficial arid valleys O fthe Southwest durlEt the past ten years has stimulated in MRS HOY TWO
 terest in this source of irrigation va I ters. and has led to repeated requests q to the Federal government to suppN information as to the distribution an' caaacItv of these waters. These re
 quests have been responded to as ta - as possible and valley after valley II the Southwest has been thus investi I gated. Thus the Estancia valley m ! ] base of Nimbres river, and the Irla l rosa basir. in New Mexico have beel \ systematically examined and simla f work has been done in the lmportah | : SuIphur Springs valley, Arizona. m I ,rorL, on all these areas has been re I Dorted in papers published by the SUI I vsv. West Of Deming and east or m I SulDhur Springs valley lies a Fegloi { Inf mountain and plain traversed b, | inc SoutherL Pacific and the Fl Pas [ and Southwestern railroads in WhlcI rbers has been g, demand for simlia ! fnfo-mation. During the past seasoj T Schwennesen has been assigne, ] to this area. He will supplement sLuC ! fo. heretofore carried out by \. n { T.-.on in the Mimbres valley an gatber additional Information m th | Ban simon valley, in southeastern AT k zo1a hut will devote the season pai | TfcIIIarIv to investigations in the ga E T5Tis De Los Playas. and ueighpori m E valleys. principally in Grant CouhI' | New Mexico. , X The reports and maps based or th E work heinz done this season VIII no \ be issued for year, and some them not for two years.