144 SADDLE AND CAMP 



vari-colored rock rising four thousand feet 

 above the creek, where it joins the Colorado 

 River in the Grand Canon. 



A year before our visit the dam above Kanab 

 gave way and left the settlement without water, 

 either to irrigate its fields or for household 

 purposes. This was so great a calamity to the 

 settlement that for a time it was a question 

 with the people whether it would not be 

 cheaper for them to abandon Kanab and their 

 homes permanently than to rebuild the dam, a 

 course which would have meant to the ma- 

 jority a loss of their all. It was finally decided, 

 however, to rebuild. A spring was tapped in 

 the mountains and the water piped to the set- 

 tlement for household use. Until this was ac- 

 complished all water had to be hauled several 

 miles in barrels. 



This provision of necessity made, the settlers 

 turned with the will of pioneers to the task of 

 constructing the dam. It was a tremendous 

 undertaking to build a sufficient and efficient 

 dam across the canon without the assistance of 

 machinery or modern apparatus, but every man 

 and boy capable of handling pick or shovel, and 

 every horse in the settlement, went to the work, 

 and at the end of a year this all but superhuman 

 task had been completed. 



