Mohave County miner., 1917-08-25
Great Damn Proposed To Obtain Unlimited
 Electric Power

dredges will be installed for the pur- pose of recovering the wonderful gold values in the auriferous deposits. The values thus obtained will be util- ized in the construction of an immense dam Poo feet high to generate -1,ooo,- 900 H. P. of electric energy to irrigate and reclaim the desert of the Wallapai and Detrital valleys, which contain soc ,000 acres of the richest and most ir7cductive lands in the great south l. st, and at the same time fuTn. sh ample power to supply all the de- mands of a section of country for 500 miles in every direction.
 Northwest Arizona is coming into its own, for mining and hydraulic en- gineers have filed favorable reports and comprehensive plans are being
 perfected for the exploitation of the most remarkable resources to be found
 at any point in the west.
 This favored section not only pos sesses a salubrious climate, but the
 rich lodes of gold and silver, copper,
 lead, zinc, and molybdenum are at tracting merited attention, and it is
 believed that the turbulent waters of the Colorado commingling with the
 alluvial land of the Wallapai will cause the desert to blossom as the rose.
 It is only a few short weeks since
 Pittsburg syndicate of bankers and business men became interested in this
 gigantic enterprise and now a syndi cate of Sacramento operators is acti- veIy in the field, for their represen- tative, Robert Davis is now on the ! Colorado river looking after the pre- liminary work necessary before the actual exploitation of the field is com menced. In the party who went cut with MT. Davis, were s. L. Holland, E. L. Doty and D. Y. Snowgoose, and : the samples which they secured were i so positively satisfactory to Mir. Davis that he determined there and then to forthwith actually start his energetic campaign.
 This region of such wonderful promise is an empire within itself, and l the surrounding country for a oistan- ce of 50 miles in every direction is rich in base and precious. metals, vir- gin forests of fur, tamarac and pine. water power which is the wonder or the world, and gold placer deposits which show 9 string of gold n the pan.
 ] Frank Culbertson, an eminent min ing and hydraulic engineer, was the fortunate engineer who found the site from which it is proposed this great dam will be constructed. In his re- searches along the Colorado river he has been engaged for several years and there has been an expenditure of something like S25,000.
 This site is TO feet between solid granite walls and solid rock bottom, being the only point in the river where has been found both bottom an dwalls of solid rock. The water at this point is 70 feet deep and the flow is about 2,OOO second it. The vertical depth of these walls is 85 feet wit han offset oe about 90 feet on each side and from this point 400 feet up. A damn can be installed here which will easily generate 1,00O,- 900 H. P. of electrical energy.
 Sometime since Judge Musgrove and Hon. James 4. Roberts, former State Controller of New York, had a conference with the Secretary of the Interior, at Washington, D. C., and every detail had been considered, the Secretary approved the great power project and ordered certain filings be made with the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
 Frank Culbertson made a very eX- haustive report to Judge M. W. Mus grove on this project, this report go- ing into detail, as to the amount of water, the soil, etc, and the contem- plated reservoir, at the lower end of the Wallapai valley, raises the water to an elevation of 100 feet higher than Antares, on the main line of the San ta Fe railroad. This site was selected . by Mir. Culbertson as the logical one for the distribution of the water in Wallapai Valley. This valley con tains 250,OOO acres of land which is much superior to the famous Imperial Valley, in California, the soil being 75 percent loam and 25 percent sand, which is the reverse in the Imperial Valley.
 In the Detrital Valley, sometimes called the Sacramento, there is some thing like 3OO,0O0 acres or a grand total in this valley and the Wallapai Of about 5OO,OOO acres, constituting a wonderful inland empire, sufficient indeed to make this the garden spot of the southwest, and in these times of Q special necessity for an enormous food production, it is considered most invaluable. Every acre of this im- mense territory is easily worth St0C the day the water is turned CD.
 Only a short distance from the To- cation of the dam site there is the 1arUpst 17i,.oi,, foreet in +ba TrrirnT