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Show the uiuii.sr iti.sniioiit n Tin: MOULD. Tim Ban Francisco C'AroiuW sajs that a company bai recently been or-gsnlred'at or-gsnlred'at riuvnli, Arizona, for the construction of the largeat artificial reservoir in tha world. The tltechoteu la the canyon four hundrel yardt below be-low tbe Junction of Tonto Creek and Halt Itlter. The height of the dam will ho 100 feet and II will backwater iliteeia mile to the Hlerra Aucha mountains, making a capacity 10V 000,000,000 cublo feet of water. Owing to tbe fact that construction material Is abundant and close at hand the cost of thlt Immense work I estimated esti-mated at only $1,000,000. It Irrigation Irriga-tion capacity when completed will a-leud a-leud over all tbe lands of the Ulla, Verde and Halt valltyt from the point where water 1 taken out to tbe Colorado Colo-rado river at Yuma, The possibility of accomplishing such a work cannot be doubted. Hut thequeitlon of lafety arises. Fanoy the dynamla force of alxttan mlleaof water, from one hundred and fifty te two hundred feet deep end several hundred fret wide. If human hands can make a wall t realst eirectually tuch a powrr, It will boa great work, In truth. Arizona ha had a little ei. perlence already In the matter ol rttervolrt. It la only a few jeart ago since the Walnut G rove disaster horrified horri-fied the country, and It waa only because be-cause of the sparienesa of populsllou that there waa not a tecond Conns, maugu calamity. |
