Show NEW RAILWAY SCHEME according to the representations ol of colonel Hendershott agent ent of the hudson reservoir and canal company salt bait lake city Is ie to be connected with nogales arizona the san ban francale oo co Axa examiner miner publishes the following concerning DOerning co the protect project colonel wells Henden Houder bott shott a loading leading attorney of now new york who has just completed arrangements for building an enormous reservoir anu canal in arizona and extending a railroad there to Is at the baldwin mr hendershott has been in arizona a long time and has done dene a great deal ol of work in connection with the two enterprises the site of the reservoir recer reper voir la Is on the salt river in the tonto basin gila aila county it is proposed to erect a dam fett feet high at the mouth of a huge box canyon in the river this according to a report by general greeley to the war department will back the water up for sixteen wiler sod and for two miles back from the be dam li it will be feet deep altogether it will impound according to greeley over cubic test et of water making it the greatest reservoir in the th united states the system of irrigation with its reservoirs and canals ja said colonel hendershott will bring under cultivation acres in the salt bait river valley the main canals will commence 1200 feet above the mouth ot ol the intersection of the verde with the salt river and run west wens through the salt and olin valleys to tle colorado river in yuma county the surveys have been very extensive and have cost As to the land it Is all desert and as ae flat as a floor it its is worth nothing as an it I 1 is but with water it will produce six crops of alfalfa in a year jear two crops ot grair graap sod all too toe kinds of fruits ou can think of such as oranges lemons grapes grape nectarines necta rines ates shell almonds walnuts anu and small mail fruits we have an abundance of money behind us and I 1 expect to lot let a contract in a few days we are already the posses possessors sore of the old arizona central railroad on which has been expended and we expect to extend it to salt dalt lake we hope also to connect it too the proposed san joaquin valley railroad sod thus get a north and south mouth outlet which will enable us to cut three or four transcontinental roada and altogether develop a flour flourishing labing business the road is already buill baill and to in operation for fifteen miles south of 01 flagstaff and twenty miles more are graded and the ties laid ready for the iron the road will run from salt lake as far south as nogales another lin line starting from the th blike base of the superstition mountain and reaching the reservoir dam will follow the bank of the canal to yuma survey have been made and right of way procured for nearly the whole length of the road there la Is one curious thing about the route and the desert starting from flagstaff the road will reach a strange forest of gigantic pine tress trees which is eighty miles long while all ajl around j it t from to miles in every direction there la Is no not a particle of wood anywhere it is in literally an island of umber timber in the desert the road will also reach the copper districts district of globe and other places the canal opening up the plains will cause a itea steadily dily increasing population there 21 2 1 colonel hendershott Henden hott abys there la Is almost no game on the desert it to la simply a vast rait expanse of land in whick like the great barren land of the tar far north its silence la Is oppressive it to ia the hudson reservoir and canal company with some of capital that proposes to change all this and make it habitable colonel hendershott expects to let jet a large contract while here |