Show BRAVE CONQUERORS THESE Not of Armies bat of a Treacberoas Stream and a Disert Land no fIII Cea by hI fI1 Cl af as hUI AeIosnTlo bcdln AprelnIe5 II nlin Hrltlea moo 101 yawl SVOUFLAKK Arizona March 171894 Probably none have labored more faithfully to control the clement and ctubllih a colony than thoic who re tide atStJotcphon the Little Colorado her Tho icttlcmenl wat Tint nude In IR76 and the people hOe been laboring for the mallory of the alert ul that trcachcruut river ever since There lulls are luHicient to have dticourageil lone pe rae ring Ien an1 Indeed they I have dlicourJRcJ the greater number of those who firit located there Hut when uch men 01 it J II I 1 RIchard John lluth I man J C llamcn ami I M Tanner Icel thai Ihey have a ipcclil mlxlon to Till they ilo not give up when obiuclei begin lo appear but go earneitly to DII work toiurnmont Olive Thli U I itriklngly true in the rrcient Instance The men hose nOdes appear nbote ultli not more than hilf doitn tallliful aiioclilM have tolled l on dim after dam only lo ice Ihelr work crumble and dlupiear under Ibe force of nilchU periodical frcihcU No wonder won-der then they irjolce at the completion of uhat appear lo bo a lubitantlal one All the available help of the town hai been employed ro hell ueclci in an cUbIt la complete the dam Knowing thai I they would hae accomplished thIs l much deilrcd oIled on the loth Imt Uie wives mother and fiilcri of bIte laborer together with the Pew men who were at home two beililef the writer concluded lu celebrate the occa don 11 by a iiirprne In the lorm of a picnic r C dinner for them Accordingly I all hands rctpoiutcd mil a table of boardiiprcid out un the hillside near the dam fairly groaned under the load of cool llilngs thai covered ll This bounteous repait together with Ihe appearance of lelal cheeked well clad allrnce of whom the greater part of the compiny was Irl composed honed phlnly thai the people peo-ple were by no means destitute I they had been laboring on ditches and dams much for the last eighteen so years sOI Dinner otcr el the whole I company at sembled on Ohio dam where ihort spcccho I were made by the leadIng reI men cxpreftiing acknowledgments for divine aid l and l support after which Uio 11111011 structure was dedicated I to the Almlchty ather I The prayer wu characteristic of them Oh Lord I we pray that this dam may stand I It be Thy will If not let fhy will be done The larger part of the dam consists of I a huga mountain ol earth og ards lone Ill 13 bOO feet wide al lie base la feel bIg f i and l 11 feel wide al the lop Ills I well protected by brush and rorlc on each IroloCle 1 a great crib of large timbers bolted together and filled with rock serves as a protection 10 the end here the u itcr pisses TItle the stream Is I turned out ol t quick 1 sandv chinnell and made to run over n bed r ol solid rock Here another crib I ilxty seven yard Ions I bolted to Its stony lounda llou raises the surhce of the water n few heel lo the level ot the canal A stone planted un the hlglml put of tlm dam 1 bears this inscription I I I Saint II Jo nepli No 8 Dim Commenced 1891 Completed 1891 The other seven liavo gone down the river What Is the COM of all these dams Well they have expended over 51300 In labor nnd material fur repairs and completion com-pletion Ibis spring This sum Is probably prob-ably not more than one slilleth of their total outlay uxm such work With the exception of posmbly 5iooto this little community has borne the entire ex tone and best nf all they have done Ilno II I uncomplainingly Respectfully Jostrii W 1 Sunn |