The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-07-23
RECLAMATION WORK WILL BE CONTINUED
 ON UPPER G|LA
REPRESENTATIVES, FROM eREEN- LEE COUNTY APPEAR BEFORE STATE LAND BOARD AND RE. CElvE FAVORABLE coNSIDERA- TON.
INVEsT|GAT|ONINCLUDEsG CLIFF
Greenlee County Water Users Az soctation and U. s. Reclamation Manager are Heard in Support Of Proposition.


 Hon. H. A. Elliott nd Hon. F. j. mcHfaIn MI returned from Phoenix on ihursaay where they had been as re- lresentatlves of The Greenlee Coan- " water Users Association before .ne state Land Board in matters effect Ing the continuation of the investiga. ton or the upper Gila river reclama- tion projects.
 Ine representatives returned confi- uent mat the Investigation work by tne u. $. reclamation engineers will De continued by and with the consent or the State Land Board until the available sites for storage dams shall nave been fully examined and report- ca upon. In pursuance of this policy Project Manager Schlecht, of the IT. o' Reclamation Bureau, who also was Tn attendance before the Land Board. will submit to the ard a new co. operative contract for this work.
 Several weeks ago engineers for the reclamation bureau arrived ar Red Rock, New Mexico on the ,,ila river above Duncan, Arizona. and in vestlgated what is locally known as the Red Rock project. At the same tlme engineers investigated the fea. srpiilty of the Alma project on the upper San Francisco River above Clifton.
 The Alma project, which will con serve the flood waters of the II, .er Frisco, impound water for power pur. poses and serve as safeguard against devasting nd dangerous high water to Clifton, has already been reported upon favorably. The Alma project will also furnish ditieual water for irri- sat1on in the lower Gila river country
 The Investigation conducted at Red Rock, as a site for storage dam. was not satisfactory to the engineers. This site on the upper Gila in New Mexico IS project for the recIama- ton of arid lands in Arizona parti- cularly in the vicinity O, Franklin and Duncan, in this county At the conclusion of this investigation Chief Engineer Schlecht requested author;- ty from the State Land Board to pro- ceed with additional Nrnvesteation along the upper 'Gila, particularly at 1llH, N. M and at .be 24 ranch .t is the opinion of the engineer, and others, familiar with the river at these points, that an ideal dam site will be found at either of these two points which will reclaim the thousands of arid acres on the Arizona side of the line.
 It was for the purpose of hearing Engineer Schlecht. and the represen- 1atlves rom Greenlee county, on this mater that the meeting of the Land Board was called on Tuesdy last in conjunction with other official matters Englneer Schlecht is stronly in ia. Vor or continuing the investigation along the upper Gila and has so re- commended to his department. It is now agreed that the State Land Board under authority of law passed by the last legislature introduced by senator Elliott of this county, will cooperate to the fullest. extent with the U. $. Reclamation Bureau.
 Tnat satisfactory dam site will be located by the engineers on the Gila aDove Duncan is foregone concIu- slon and 1t is immaterial, for the great good to be accomplished, whe- ther such dam site is l: eat d at Cliff or the A ranch or in the vicinity of either. The purpose of the appropria- ton at this time is to investigate the feasibility of such a dam site and it's estimated cost and it is good news to know that the State Land Board, con- sisting of Governor Campbell Secre- tary of State Mitt Simms Auditor Boyce, Treasurer Ross and Attorney | General Wiley Jones, will cooperate further with the Reclamation bureau in this important matter
 
 Gov. Campbell stated to the Green lee county representatives that he would also take the matter up with :he Governor of New Mexico and en- deavor to secure the cooperation of that state in connection with the in- ! vestigations.