Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-06-04
WATER ECONOMY EXPERT NOW
 GIVES ATTENTION ID PROJECT
(From Wednesdays Examiner)

(From Wednesdays EXaminer)
 That Sir William Willcocks, who is is in Yuma today, has been recently appointed consulting engineer for the United States Reclamation Service, was announced in Phoenix Monday afternoon by w. O. Ryan, in his speech before the water users there.
 In this instance, he is here on spe- cial detail to study water economy in the American projects.
 This astonishing information is of interest to all, although no official announcement of it has been made in Yuma. So Yuma has been entertain ing, unawares, and it is no mere sight seeing trip, as at first supposed. Nor is he devoting himseif entirely to the advancement of science and engineer ing. He is not looking for the natural beauties which abound in Yuma val ley; nor for the broad green fields, the clear, cool streams, the splendid masonry work in the siphon project, nor the dam at Laguna; nor the eff cient working systems of the whole.
 But he is critically surveying the workings of the project, searching for flows looking over our broad acres ill search of bad drainage systems, our flooded roads, wasteful canal and late al systems, inefficient construction eatures, etc.
 Or, in other words, he is looking over the entire American reclamation roject with the eye of a man who nas ever held the watchword of Economy" and who has affected the saving of millions in half dozen Old World irrigation works.
 In company with Project Engineer 2. L. Sellew, w. A. Ryan and w. J. Murphy, Sir William left yesterday morning for the scene of the levee trouble, twelve miles down the river, and have not as yet returned. How ever they expect to leave for Imperial immediately and no entertainment will be possible.
 Sir William Willcocks has been dubbed an assistant to the Creator for the work he has done in reclaim ing arid lands along the Nile. It was le who built the great Assouan dam, beside which the Laguna dam is com paratively small
 Sir Wm. Willcocks is no stranger to America, or to American en gineering authorities. So far back IS 1893 he was conspicuous figure at the Columbian exposition in Chi cago, where he participated in the technical congresses. He does not hesitate to say that his plans for the Assouan dam were largely influenced by the plans of American engineers for the projected Nicaraguan ship canal hydraulic works, and he pays nigh tribute to the American James Eads, the great engineer who de- signed the Mississippi river jetties and built the St. Louis bridge; the work of Eads, says Sir William in one of lis books, has been taken advantage of in planning the very comprehensive scheme for the general storage of the Hoods, control of alluvial deposit, and definition channels on the Nile in- j, volving an ultimate investment of $40,- 100000 to increase the land capital of Egypt by the billions of dollars.
 Sir William is on a trip to all the projects and it is understood that he will be in the Southwest for another month as he is studying water econo- my in the United States projects.
 Frank w. Hanna will return to his 1 headquarters in Phoenix this evening md will not accompany the party to California.