Show HH MH gl Man Who Turned Sources Of Mighty Rivers Dead Nationally Known U. U S. S Engineer Superintended Construction of Several mountain Inter-mountain I Reservoir Dams Was Vas Typical Pioneer Dan and Bill Whitney who ho ha e been residents of Cedar for the past several se years yeara ears had a brother who bo died In MexIco Mexico Mex- Mex Ico co ast January that was a nationally known knon construction engineer and who ho superintended the construction of several several sev- sev eral ral of the large western reservoir dams anu among them being the dam on ontra Stra Strawberry tra berry River Roosevelt Dam and the he Laguna Dam on the Colorado ri river iver ver The following article clipped from a aLos aLos ax Los x Angeles paper tells tens of the activIties activities ties of the deceased J. J c. c Whitney The body of or J. J c. c Whitney construction construction con- con engineer who for 40 years was connected with ith the great construction con- con projects in the United States Reclamation Service and who passed away in Chihuahua Mexico January 25 1929 was laid to rest in Santa MonIra Monca Monica Mon- Mon Ira ica ca on Friday February 1 The death of Mr Whitney in the Mexican city was due to acute Indigestion Besides his widow Mrs Lillian Mae Whitney the deceased is survived by bya a small smaIl granddaughter four sisters and I two wo brothers A niece Mrs Julian P. P Black is a resident of Walnut Park at I 2923 Olive street Mrs L. L J. J Wesley a aister sister ister of the late Mr Whitney with her family of Owatonna Minn attended attend attend- ed the funeral and is now a visitor in Walnut Park Mr Whitney was born in Ohio in 1864 His career of 40 years in great construction projects carried him Into in into into In- In to places which years jears ears ago were lit little tIe known but are now famous In 1904 or 1905 the Tonto Basin now made famous by Zane Grey Orey was Just another another another an an- other of those little known infrequent- infrequent ed paradises the goal of many a prospectors prospector's weary wanderings the I mecca of the sun dazed desert vaga vaga- bond Wild beautiful untouched vaga-I vaga or It was unceasingly watched over overby overby overby by those huge sleeping villages the uninhabited uninhabited un un- inhabited homes of the ancient tribe of cliff d dwellers It is here we see the really first important important important im im- work of the man who turned the course of mighty rivers aid moul J ed the destiny esti y of many a at his will Here he built bulIt the Tonto Intake the gateway of the waters which fill the great Roosevelt Reservoir behind the gigantic Roosevelt dam With a handful handful handful hand hand- ful of white men and a full tribe cf of Apache Indians who called him their big White Chief he successfully completed completed completed com com- his first project of that nature The various arlous projects which he superIntended superIntended superintended super- super Intended were the Laguna Dam on the Colorado River the Grand Valley Dam the Warm Springs Dam on the River Diversion Dam on Lost River and Storage Dam on the Strawberry Strawberry Straw Straw- I berry River He also did constructions construction work on the Roosevelt Dam the King Hill project and many others His last lost work was with the J. J O. O White end and Co In Chihuahua Mexico Ie was a typical pioneer of the West and the Northwest At the agu ig of sixteen he began an early railroad career in the employ of 1 his s uncle Donald Donald Donald Don Don- ald Grant of Faribault Minn a railroad railroad rail rall- road contractor of the great north north- west |