Arizona republican., 1918-08-08
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 ARIZONA CANAL
Water Recedes and Shows
 Extent of Damage Done; No Rain Fell at Roosevelt
 To Help Fill Reservoir

There were fifteen breaks in the Arizona canal as result of the flood Tuesday, the Water Users association reported yesterday. These breaks averaged 200 feet to the break, one break. however, being 15oO in length. It will be four or five days before Wa ter service can be resumed on the north side.
 The worst break was three miles north of Scottsdale. There were five other breaks above that break. Six breaks occurred between laterals 12 and IA. Seven hundred feet of wooden bulkhead at Granite Reef was washed | away.
 There was no damage to canals on the south side, except to the. Western canal. where the Water Users asso- citation reports four or five breaks which will not be repaired for four OF five days.
 No Rain at Roosevelt l The rain did no good whatever in the Salt River irrigated area. The Salt River watershed received no rain- fall. For the first time since a day last March the report of the contents of the reservoir showed a gain, but this was due to the shutting off of l down from the reservoir the Water Users association reporting that had a normal flow been maintained the reservoir contents report would have shown loss as usual.
 | The Water Users association re- ports that places in the project where rain was needed no rain fell at all, or only a few drops; that where rain was not needed the country was flooded.
 Irrigation on the south side is going as usual, as much water being put into the southside canals as is possible with the injured bulkhead at Granite Reef.
 Railroad Conditions
 The Arizona Eastern will resume regular traffic on it's line to Kelvin this morning, barring any unforeseen occurrences, Superintendent C.. M Scott reported yesterday. The road ir the vicinity of Kelvin suffered iron fourteen washouts. These washout. extended along for 15 miles of the line and amounted to small breaks of z few feet to large breaks several hun dred feet in length. Mir Scott saiC that the line to Maricopa had remained open throughout the storm and flood no damage whatever occurring.
 The Santa Fe line is open to Asl Fork and train service will be resumed over the Parker cutoff to Californi; with the train leaving here at 6:2 o'clock this evening, from presen calculations, w. $. Goldsworthy, gen eral agent of the Santa ,F'e, reporte, yesterday.
 The Santa Fe suffered from a mum
 Der of minor washouts, all of whicl | had nithor hoQn ef ;oLf are being repaired for resumption O full traffic this evening. With the lin
 open to Ash Fork, all passengers fo
 California yesterday were routed b
 way of Ash Fork and the main lin
 west.
 The Agua Fria country is heavi
 watered and the road to Yuma is i'm
 passable, the weather bureau reporte
 yesterday The roads north are re
 ported as in bad condition, but whethe
 they are impossible could not b
 learned. But it is considered inadvis
 able for motorists to attempt to mak
 the trip to California until definite in
 formation can be received. ? With the receding of the flood wate
 a fuller extent of the damage that re ] suited can be gained. Many sma , ranchers have suffered heavy loss, i ] some cases sufficient to wipe out a or almost all they possessed. Other report half or three-fourths of thei crops ruined. t-s Others, and this includes the greate part of the larger ranchers and cot . ton growers, report that the rain wa of great value to them as their cotto was in great need of rain. Water came down Grand avenu yesterday. reaching half way from Si } Points,
 Numerous stories of close escape and races with the flood waters cam in yesterday. One party. in a Unio auto stage, had been out west to SC some mining property. When the reached the Agua Fria they found te feet of raging water. Taking off tn tires, they came across on the rail road bridge. From there to the cit they ploughed through mud that let th car down to the housing. The part declared it was an experience they q not care to repeat