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if the canyon below Little Valley. Two passable. A rough estimate showed 



it more holes were put down at each of 20,000 second-feet passing the dam site, 



hese sites, showing apparently good Six tunnels are now driven, and it is 



oundation for dam at from five to fif- expected that four others will be fin- 



een feet below the surface. At- the ished during the month of September, 



lirection of the Board of Consulting Operations on the Phoenix-Roosevelt 



Engineers, a more complete investiga- road have progressed satisfactorily, and 



ion will be made of the most favorable most of the heaviest work of the road is 



f these four sites. completed. 



Discharge measurements and other The investigations on the two reser- 



lata relating to the use of water under voir sites on the upper Gila are nearly 



>resent ditches in the Malheur project completed, and a gaging station is to 



ire being continued. be established here and measurements 



During the month successive mass made of the quantity of water in the 



neetings were held by the citizens in river, as the whole question as to the 



>rder to organize an association to value of this reservoir hinges upon the 



egally take up the proposal of the Rec- water supply. 



amation Service. A mass meeting on August saw the practical completion 



;he Qth ratified the proposed articles of of the chemical investigations on the 



ncorporation for a water users' associa- Salt River and the wells around Phoenix 



ion along the lines of the Salt River Val- and the country west and southwest of 



ey Water Users' Association, and a com- that city. A large number of analyses 



nittee of seventeen representative men were made and maps and reports pre- 



>f the valley was authorized to solicit pared which give very complete infor- 



iubscriptions under these articles. The mation as to the distribution of salt in 



itate law requires a majority of capital the underground waters of Salt River 



;tock of the corporation to be subscribed Valley. 



)efore the election of officers can take ^ 

 jlace, and also thirty days' notice of 



>aid election. A majority of the stock La Plata Upon the recommenda- 



laving been subscribed pnor to the 29th Project. tion of the Director of 



)f August, the election was advertised theU.S. Geological Sur- 



:o take place on the 2yth of September. vey 15 townships of land lying in and 



Field parties have been busy carrying tributary to the La Plata and Animas 

 Dn investigations in other parts of the river valleys in New Mexico, and aggre- 

 gate, looking to the storage and diver- gating approximately 308,736 acres and 

 don of waters for the irrigation of lands 4^ townships, embracing approxi- 

 in various localities. These investiga- mately 80,640 acres lying in Colorado 

 dons, however, have not been carried to along the Animas River, have been seg- 

 a point where it is possible to determine regated under the first form of with- 

 the feasibility of the several schemes drawal, pending investigations by the 

 under contemplation. engineers of the Reclamation Service in 



connection with their reclamation by 



^ irrigation. 



Progress in Mr. Louis C. Hill, su- This project, known as the La Plata 



Arizona. pervising engineer in project, is located on a tributary of the 



charge of the Salt River La Plata River in San Juan county, in 



project, Arizona, reports considerable northwestern New Mexico. The main 



damage by high water during August source of water supply is from Animas 



Dn the headworks and sluicing tunnels. River and its tributaries, and possibh 



the water in the river rose to a point from Los Pinos River in Colorado, 



higher than has been reached since supply will be diverted from Animas 



1891, and filled the headworks tunnel River either near the Colorado-New 



ibout half full of mud. It stood some Mexico line and conveyed to lands 



:hree feet over the top of the sluicing lying in and along the La 1 



:unnel and made the canyon road im- by means of canals aggregating approxi- 



