El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-26
DEVELOPMENT
MUCH DEVELOPMENT
NEAR CASA GRANDE
Canals Are Nearly Finished and Many
Wells Are Being Sunk in This
District of Arizona.

Canals Are Nearly Finished and Many
Wells Are Being Sunk in This
District of Arizona.
Tucson, Ariz., Sept 26.-The activity
Z which has marked development in the
Casa Grande district in the past is
! months continues greater than ever
I Archie Ryan, cattleman, has finished
! sinking a well 1S2 feet. The water
| rose to within 55 feet of the surface
! A pump was installed and the yield
! is 1000 gallons a minute The draw
I down on a test was nine feet. Ryan,
| encouraged by the flow, has ordered
pump to throw 1900 to 400 gallons
| per minute.
Engineer Stafford reports that splen-
did progress is being made on the canal
now being constructed by the Casa
Grande Valley Water Users assocla-
ton. The caterpiller engine, which
draws the excavatorS, has averaged
more than 1890 cubic yards OF earth
per day, for the past month, at a cost
of IA cents per yard, this including
Is percent charge on the investment
and depreciation.
J. F Brown, president of the aSso-
citation, has been appointed a commit
tee of one to attend to the matter OF
securing prison labor and to arrange
for getting the convicts out on the
work This is under the new prison
farm law. The state will receive water
for prison farm lands in exchange for
labor on the canal Brown, while state
senator. got this bill through the leg
islature-
I'd to the present time II miles of
the canal have been opened up, six
and a half miles have been fully com
pleted, and the remaining distance has
been more than half finished. The
engineering camp is now within half
a mile of Florence. The eXcaVator is
travelling about Is miles per day. Sew
eral teams are at work finishing the
canal as the eXcavator leaves.
w N RPll- OF Phoenix. has Sc
cured a fine tract of land about five
miles from town near the foot of the
Casa Grande mountain. He has let a
contract for well and Will begin TO
improve the place at once
Luther G. Wilson has a claim on
which he has sunk a well Al feet and
has IA feet of water. He is delivering
1000 gallons of water per minute with
apparently no draw-down.
d. J. Boyce, who has $50 acres OF
land, is considering putting down four
eight inch wells and dividing the land
into so acre tracts He says that at
least IL people from hts former home,
Long Beach, Calf, contemplate lOcat-
ing in the valley.
3. W. CharleswOrth has developed
water at IS feet, on his ranch, but, is
sinking deeper into the coarse gravel
for the best results He has 80 acres
of black soil and so acres of sandy
loam
J. 4. Berry, wife and son have taken
up $50 acres near Toltec, each holding
$50 acres. There are to be three wells
on the land, two of which are already
down. They have 26 inch castings, and
splendid flows of water have been OBJ
tanned. Berry has 240 acres cleared
and stumped, and $50 acres under fence.
Berry and his son are well drilling
contractors. They have established a
nice home.
H. R Smith, who developed one of
the first big wells in the valley, has
a 16 inch pump which delivers 1900
gallons per minute. He has improved
his place.