Arizona republican., 1921-06-12

make Arizona. and it will make it 9 hundred times bigger than it is today.
 Is it surprising. then. to see the SIS settlers of the Paradise Verde -irri- gation district holding tenaciously to the hope and conviction that reclama- ton is going to do big things for them?
 The other day someone had a few kind words to throw out against the Paradise Verde to the general effect that the project is unfeasible-impos- sible-the offspring of fancy and de- lusion
 If people had held that view con- corning the reclamation possibilities on the Salt river. the Roosevelt res- ervoir never would have been built: the Salt river lands would be pro- ducing something less than half of
 what they do today and Phoenix nev- CT would have made it's name.
 If the control of the Salt has done
 so much, why can't the control of the Verde river mean as much propor- tionately, and to get that proportion one has but to realize that the drain age area of the Verde is practically
 equal to that of the Salt
 But the question of feasibility Of the project goes much deeper than
 that Some of the earlier engineering
 reports were adverse. but with a more thorough study of the sub ject there has been built up an indis-
 putable line of evidence that the im-
 pounding of the flood waters of the
 Verde in conjunction with proper dis | tribution and use will provide plenty | of water for at least s5,0Oo acres of land.
 This evidence is so definite in
 character that it has won over the l government to the views of the dis
 trict's engineers. and with Uncle
 Sam on their side it is small wonder that the settlers under the project are living in an air of expectancy and
 confidence these days.
 Not only did the secretary of the interior give Paradise-Verde the res
 ervoir sites on the upper reaches of the Verde river which it sought but
 it also gave it the right to construct
 transmission and power canals across
 the withdrawn lands of the govern
 ment located along the river
 These concessions were granted in the face of all the adverse reports
 which could be raked and scraped
 together, and in the face of stout op-
 position on the part of the Salt River Valley Water Users association which at that time was acting as ob- structionist.
 The main construction features oi the Paradise-N Verde project consist o' two storage reservoirs on the upper waters of the Verde river in Yavapa county. as flood control units and fol generating electric power and ths construction of a third large reser- veir on New river. which will picl up the tail waters of the main dis. tributing canal and act as an equal izer in the generation of power. The Camp Verde reservoir vii have a capacity of sooo acre-feet About 40 miles down stream will b' located the Horseshoe reservoir. hay. ing capacity of 233. .o00 acre feet thus giving a total storage capacitl for these two reservoirs of more thar l 1000. 0oO acre-feet
 These reservoirs will store the floos waters of the Verde river The wa ter required for irrigation will be al l lowed to pass through the gates a the dams. and will be carried in concrete lined power canal of 75 I second-feet capacity for a distance O L 20 miles to a power plant where. il drop of 300 feet. approximatel 1 20. .O0e horsepower of energy will b l developed
 The irrigation water for the Para 4 disc Verde district will be discharge
 at the tail race of the power plan VI into a concrete lined main canal O 500 second-feet capacity, in which 4 will be carried along the upper O M northern edge of the district At certain intervals laterals c 4 carving capacity will carry the wa a ter into the district. where it will b S distributed to the farmers. The mai