Show ARIZONA CANALS liow ilow MAKE aoe TOE DESERT BLOSSOM BI bishop F A hammond of huntsville weber county who returned on saturday morning via the D 11 G from his trip through arizona irizona colorado new 31 mexico exico and a portion of old Al mexico exico on which he has been traveling constantly since the of last december brings with him some interesting te statistics in regard to the canals made or purchased by bv the lat ter day saints in the gila valley the smithville canal made by the mormons cormons Mor mons in 1880 contains about twelve square feet of waterland wat water erand and covers about 2000 acres of land it cost over and is six miles long the land it waters is owned by 30 or 35 individuals averaging 57 acres to the man the oregon canal is on the opposite side of the river and is owned by 1 20 10 men it covers 2000 acres I 1 carries 12 square feet of water and is 7 miles in extent acres to the tile man the canal was bought by the tile saints at a cost of the central is a canal about 12 miles in length including an extension made to cover smithville it was originally a purchase and has haa cost coat it is owned by about luu luo men and covers bow acres averaging 40 acres to the individual it contained con about 18 square feet of water the graham ditch on the north side odthe of the river from the central was bought by our people it is about four miles long Iong contains eight square acet of water and supplies 1000 acres divided among the owners 01 the ditch 10 ili in number it cost 2500 the know nothing ditch Is on the south side of the gila river kiver but put north and west of smithville it was madg by our people is four miles long has eight square feet of water a and nd covers over acres it is 0 owned wined by eleven el even men averaging about afif fifty ty acres apiece it was constructed at a cost of 2500 the patterson canal is also on the south side of the gila and west of smithville h vwe vuc it was bou bought ah t by the saints it is four miles tong lons carries ten square feet leet of water and covers GOO acres of land it cost and is owned by twelve men the curtis canal on tho north side is northwest from smithville it is five miles iong long contains ten squa aqua square re feet of water covers 2000 acres and antl cost it was purchased by our people and is owned by twelve men the kempton ditch is on the north side of the river a little below the curtis canal it was made by our people at a cost of imo 1500 it is three miles ion lon long iong and waters a cres acres h having av el eight lit square square feet of water it is the property or of six men each of whom owns about 13 acres the bryce canal is on the north side odthe of the gila and north of smithville it was made by our people at a cost of 2000 and covers 1000 acres it carries eight square squire feet of it is four miles ili in len ien lenth length th and is owned by five mell meil there are also several brethren wh who 0 own water in the montezuma canal having bought farms in its vicinity but to what extent they tiley are arc interested our informant did not learn bishop hammond IIa lla returns in good health having accomplished the object of his journey ills his son F B hammond ammond II who accompanied him south returned two weeks ago via the southern pacific |