Arizona republican., 1921-08-07
All Is Arranged at Casa Grande
 For San Carlos Day Celebration

' FLORENCE, Ariz, Aug. G. tSpeciaD-Everything is being put In readiness at Casa Grande for the biggest celebration ever held in Ari- zona or the southwest on San Carlos Lay" next Friday, August T.. The third big annual meeting of the San Carlos Association will be staged with, a big free barbecue, varied sports program including wild west rodeo and sizzling ball game, and a monster business meeting at which the affairs of the association will be discussed.
 Various committees on entertain ment are hard at work to provide for the comfort and necessities of the big crowd which will be on hand. The cattlemen of the Casa Grande section have responded nobly to the call for a big barbecue and have do- mated some big fat beeves for the occasion and will barbecue the same in fine style. Arrangements are be- ing made to take care of a. big crowd. The big meeting which will be held immediately after the barbecue is over, will be the big event of the day. 4 splendid program is being arr ranged. Judge Baughn as chairman of the association, will preside. Mayor Peart will extend cordial welcome on behalf of the city of Casa Grande to the association and its visitors. Brief reports of the years work will be made by the executive committee of six. Judge P. D. Over field will give a general summary of Bis recent trip to Washington in the interests of the San Carlos project.
 President George Kinne of the Pinal County Farm Bureau will then 7 ing the necessity of the San Carlos dam from the farmers standpoint. Judge John H. Campbell of Tucson and other prominent speakers from over the state will be on hand to de- liver short stirring addresses full of punch and good cheer. Representa- lives from other parts of the state and other states will be called upon for words of encouragement, en- dorsement and congratulations. The number of the addresses to be de- 1tvered will necessitate brevity on the part of the speakers generally so that the crowd will not be held too long.
 The report of the executive com mfttee will show splendid progress made during the past year. A com plete and down-to- date report on khe San. Carlos project has been se- ? rured by the committee through CO., operative efforts with the United Ptates reclamation service. This re- port has been paid for Jointly by the hssociation and the state of Arizona Every detail of the project is known and all that is necessary is to get congress to make an appropriation either for this specific project or for . general reclawation policy out of which the San Carlos would be built
 Many things have been accom- plished by the committee in the past year and the project has been brought imfneasurably nearer. Al this will be covered by the reports oi the committee, which, however, will
 The San Carlos project is consid- cred the foremost unauthorized irri- ration project in the Southwest. Its physical conditions are unequalled by those of any other project of com parable size in the whole country The bedrock at the dam site is only 20 feet in depth, while the canyon W1lls in the gorge of the Gila river It the site of the San Carlos dam nome five miles down stream from the San Carlos Indian agency, are ideal from both the Standpoint of precipitousness and character ol rack. The rock is a hard quartzite 14jtable from every standpoint to SC into q great masonry dam. and of 44rtug in its bed rock the very solid