Show TO LIFT RESORTS WATER FEET engine engineering ering task will require gigantic pumps flagstaff ariz the gi gigantic gantle engineering gi gl task of bringing water from springs near the bottom of the grand canyon to supply the tourist resort on the souta rim will be started soon water will be pumped from garden creek feet under the rim to the park headquarters and tourist hotel NJ M R tillotson superintendent of the grand canyon national park has announced the project will bo be completed tr lr four months contracts were awarded to a los angeles firm recently to lay almost two miles of S 5 inch steep pipe from the springs to the top fop of the fanyon walls the project will be one of the most unique attempted in arizona because of the dangerous route laid out for the pipe line and the great pressure necessary to force the water more thin than half a 1 mile straight up upward warl since the establishment of the resort on the rim of the grand can yon many years igo water has been shipped by railroad tank cars for rill miles flagstaff and del rio ariz bar have been the rhe sources erection of an foot fool trans imitation lirt atlon cable extending from a point near the village villi ige on the can yon von brink will begin operations the Is to be in four sections with transfer facilities at each sta lon don for safety purposes the giant 17 stage pumps forcing the he water from the springs will be I 1 electrically driven three separate conduits for transmitting the electrical power will follow the routing of tile the pipe line this Is the second huge hu e water project undertaken at af the grand canyon A similar system wis was jn in stalled by a railroad company on the north rim several years ago |