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Show ARIZONA GETS 1 BIG RESERVOIR Irrigation Project Near St. Johns Finally Com pleted SAI,T LAKE. Oet lh. ATier forty ! years' strlvInK aglim' ."dd.H In an arid ! region, residents of St. Johnr., Ariz, will realize the dreams of a csnra-tlon csnra-tlon with the completion of the Lyman Ly-man rtfaervolfi said t tc the second largest body of artifieinl water In the state, according to Charles P. Anderson, Ander-son, a member of the- j. residency of I St. Johns 'inkf hA m Salt l. St. Johns Is one m the olds; ,.M-tlements ,.M-tlements In northern Arizona. th vil itor from there says, the outposts having hav-ing been established bv If eXlCA.fl emigrants emi-grants In the early GO In the Utter part of the dftoa.de Don Solomon Barili a native of Germany who crossed the plain with the 'Mormon" pioneers, made his advent anions: the first settlers. set-tlers. At first the Mexicans had Ihclr misgivings, but poasesslnc superior xecutUe ability. Barth soon became their recognized leader ind known as Kins: ol ' For a period of nearly thirty ears hi word w -s law and his mandates were ODMrVed without recourse. re-course. COLoMsTs SECURE I ND With the eomlntr of the 1 Mormon" colonist' In St lohns In the late TO's. under the direction of Ammon Ten-ney. Ten-ney. a deal was consummated where- bv they became the owners of the j western part of the area claimed by i Barih and the Mexicans. . In order to cultivate the parched soil It was necessary to build rescr- olrs to store the floo'd waters. Soon aftfi the arrival of the colonist" a dam was built across the Little Colorado Colo-rado river a few miles above the new town. Cloudbursts at tlrrv.es washed th dam out, but each time the undaunted un-daunted settlers rebuilt it. In 1H09 floods tore away the dam It had taken ! many vears to build up and once more marshaled under the leadership of David K (.'drill, many years president presi-dent of St Johns stake. th- colonists prepared again to start at the bepti'-ning bepti'-ning But thih time through the efforts ef-forts of President Udall and other leading citizens of the community, a Denver syndicate was Interested in the pmlrrt and with the assistance of the Sfttlers. the Lyman dam was built. The structure was large and strong and the colonists thought their s'.ruj- ' gloc w. il- over. But the oik dyXf stood j only two years when with the melting melt-ing of heavy snows and a seepage through the core, the dam went out again the fifth time STATE PROFFERS AID With practically every man In the community in financial stra'ts, it seemed Impossible to surmount this last calamity, but confidence and hop .were once more restored when it v.as learned that the stat administration was ready to offer financial ise!T-ancc. ise!T-ancc. With the dam now practically completed after two year? of construction con-struction worl:. the -st has been in tho neighborhood of i'bO non With the final completion of the work. 13.000 acres of rich sandy bencn land will be brought under cultivator:. The pust summer, however, the construction con-struction work was fir enough along to make it poi-slble to take out water for partial irrigation of corn aid cane, the growers of which have be n attended at-tended with such .-.uci e-s tlnr. a splendid splen-did exhibit is to be mad at the Arizona Ari-zona slatr fair in Pho miIn In N'ovem-j N'ovem-j ber With the bringing under cultivation I of thS lare area. St. Johns, wi h ts contiguous territory trill becom ime of the leading agricultural sections of Arizona. |