Weekly journal-miner., 1922-08-09
CANYON
 DANSITE SEEN
 BY CAMP BELL

| PHOENIN, Aug. 7-Governor
 Campbell has returned from a trip
 to Coconino county, thoroughly i'm
 pressed with the possibilities of Glen
 canyon, near the Utah. border, for a
 wonderful damsite Standing atop a
 cliff rising 1900 feet almost perpen-
 dicularly from the river bed, the Gov
 ernor had close up view of the ex-
 act point where it IS proposed to
 construct a ,veritable Gibraltar of a
 dam, one capable of impounding I25,000G00 acre-feet of water and mak- | ing certain the control of the mighty Colorado for reclamation, power and i flood control.
 This IS the site on which the
 Southern California Edison Co. of
 Los Angeles has filed with the Fed
 eral Power commission and the State Water commissioner, and which the residents of Coconino county are
 hopeful will be selected in preference to all others for the initial attempt
 to harness the mighty flood waters which annually flow out to sea after
 doing irreparable damage.
 Governor Campbell IS withholding his judgment as to whether this site IS superior to that of Boulder Can
 yon, which he viewed in company
 with Secretary of Commerce Her bert Hoover last May. This is a question which in the last analysis must be settled by engineers, he holds, but this fact is not deterring him from gaining as much first hand information as possible that he may be thoroughly familiar with the sit uation before the next Colorado River commission meeting which he
 will attend
 The next meeting Of the commits
 sion will be held at Santa Fe, N. M. on August 2S, this date having been set by Secretary Hoover. Some time
 before the meeting the Governor will visit Diamod creek, the site i'll which Arizona capitalists are interested, so that when he meets with the com mission he will carry with him a per sonal knowledge of the three prin- ciple sites which are now under cer- ious consideration.
 Striking camp at Lees Ferry the first night out from Flagstaff the Governor party spent the next day inspecting the site Gaining the top of the mesa on the south bank. they walked across a narrow peninsula less than 1900 feet in width to find themselves at a point where hard solid sandstone walls rise sheer from the depths below to the majestic height of 1900 feet Here engineers have visualized the dam. Through the narrow neck of land they pro- pose to construct series of tunnels through which the rivers flow will be diverted during the construction of the dam and which will have a permanent use in connection with the power development
 The feasibility Of the site, the Gov ernor said, depends largely on the distance to and the nature of the bed rock, points which have as yet been uninyestigated, as no borings have been made. The Governor was not overly impressed with the possibilities of a rock filled dam Several boul- ders rolled off the rim were ground | to powder by the time they reached | the bottom, so tremendous is the drop, and to the engineers it seemed | doubtful if rock could be moved in sufficient mass to insure it's being rock by the time it reached the bed of the river.
 On the return trip a detour was made to the Marble Canyon bridge site where the walls of the canyon converge to within 650 feet of each other. This site was selected some years ago by the Denver and Rio Grande R. R. in planning to cross the river A suspension highway bridge at this point would open up a new wonderland of scenic granduer north of the Grand Canyon, and aid in the development of that section, according to the Governor, who estimates the cost at $l50.000 He is hopeful of interesting the In- lian service. which with state and county cooperation would assure con struction.
 Representative Carl Hayden was a member of the party He and the Governor were the guests of the -ocoino county board of supervisors represented by Messrs Bill Campbell md Fred Caring. The party included Engineer Rice of the Geological Sur 'ey; w. s. Norviel state water com missioner; Drs. Raymond and Man ling of Flagstaff; A. (. Gilmer of Pat Moran, of Babbitt | Bros; President McMullen of the | Northern Arizona Normal School; a Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Manning and $ Miss Lockett, county superintendent 'f schools. The party was piloted y Bill Connolly
 HARDENED SOFT DRINKS s