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Vol. XX.
FLAGSTAFF. FEBRUARY 21, 1903.
No. 8
ELECTRIC PLANT
Fossil Creek Electric Plant-Power to be
Transmitted to Preacott and the
Mines In that Vicinity.
A little over one year ago the first
steps were taken toward the establish
ment of one of the most important en
terprises that has ever been under
taken in northern Arizona.
This enterprise is the establishment
of an electric power plant on Fossil
creek of 0000 horse power capacity for
the generation and transmission of
electricity to Prescott and a large
mining section between Fossil creek
and Prescott, a distance of 57 miles,
most of which is through one of the
richest mining sections in the world.
The inaugeration of this great enter
prise and the successful carrying out
of the proposition thus far is largely
due to the energy and good business
ability of Mrs. Iva E. Tutt of Los
Angeles, who is well and favorably
known as one of the shrewdest business
women in the west.
About a year ago last month she
arrived from California with a force
of engineers and began the work of
surveying for the plant and also run
ning a survey for the transmitting
line. When this work was -completed
it was necessary to get a right of way
across the public domain for the
-transmitting -line, -and -many other do
tails which took months to work out,
but the final triumph was made when
last Wednesday the government grant
ed the right of way of 100 feet wide
across the public domain, thus re
moving the last barrier that had stood
in the way of carrying out the plans.
On receiving this word Mrs. Tutt at
once started for Prescott to begin the
work of executing her plans, thus
showing that she means business and
there will be no delay.
One of the first things necessary will
bo the building of a wagon road to the
site where the plants will be erected.
This will be a big job and will cost
alone about $30,000.
This road will leave the railroad
near Mayer; passing through Stod
dard and up Sycamore creek cross the
Verde river at Government gap and
up to the plant sites near the head of
Fossil creek.
On the completion of the road work
will be begun on the erection of the
plants, which will be two in number, a
little distance apart, of about 3000
horse power each. This is done so
the same amount of water may be made
to produce double the amount of power
and in case of accident to ono plant
the other will be left to fall back on.
The combined power of the two plants
will be transmitted on the same line,
however, giving as before stated a
force of 6000 horse power.
The diverting dam will be near the
head of the creek and the water will
be carried by means of ditches and
flumes, through the water wheels and
then returned to its channekand can
be used again below by tlwfranchers
who have the water located for irriga
ting purposes.
Fossil creek is only fourteen miles
long and its waters have a fall of
1600 feet or over 100 feet to the mile,,
and the volume of water Is several
thousand inches the year round, which
guarantees sufficient power to keep the
plants In continuous operation.
The plant and lines will be owned
and operated by the Arizona Power
company, who have contracted with
the Arizona Construction company for
the completion of the work at a cost of
$1,000,000, the work to be completed
and the plant in operation by the first
of next January.
Mrs. Tutt informs the Journal-Miner
that they will be able to furnish power
for less than one-half what It costs to
generate power at the mines. Journal
Miner.
A GOOD SPENDER.
A Cananea Miner Gets Away With $16,000
In Short Time.
There is one man in Cananea who
can rightfully boast that he is a good
spender. This Is San Simon Jack.
At the end of last December, San Si
mon Jack sold a mine for $16,000. He
now announces that he has gone
through this fortune and is looking
for another mine to sell. It took San
Simon Jack many years to put his
last mine in shape for sale, but it did
not take him as many weeks to rid
himself of the proceeds of the sale.
With $16,000 San Simon J ack certainly
showed the boys a good time during
the month to January. The chief
source of expenditure for San Simon
Jack was a saloon which he purchased
and,turned over to his friends. This
saloon supplied sport for a little more
than a week, but it was too slow for San
Simon Jack, who in consequence found
other means of squandering his fortune.
Everybody in Cananea hopes that San
Simon Jack will sell another mine
next month. Review.
Will 8ore Tor Water.
E. L. Jordan, who is one of the
most successful ranchman in all of
Arizona, has made all arrangements
to drill for artesian water on his ranch
about seven miles north of Jerome.
At first he will use horse power but
will later put in steam. He will sink
the first prospect hole near his resi
dence.
Mr. Jordan believes that artesian
water can be found at any point in the
Verde Valley. He holds the theory
that the waters In the Verde river come
from springs which are fed from un-
under-ground streams from the Colo
rado river. He sights the fact that
when the snows on the Rocky moun
tains melt and swell the waters of the
Colorado, that it causes a raise of
from two to four Inches, and that this
raise comes at a season when the
Verde is not fed one drop of water from
the water-shed adjacent to it or its
tributaries.
While his main object in sinking is
to find artesian water, he is willing to
take advantage of anything in the way
of mineral or oils which may come to
him, and, as remarked by an expert
who looked over the ground, it is hard
to tell what lies under the lime cap
ping which will have to be gone
through, and that he might run into a
corner of Senator Clark's pocket
book. Jerome News.
ARIZONA LEGISLATURE
The Members Expect Arizona to Become
a State and are Taking It Easy
Will Adjourn UntH Tuesday.
C. H. Shulz, a prominent stockman
of Coconino county, Is In the city.
Mr. Shulz at present has a large num
ber of sheep wintering in the valley.
Phoenix Review.
As a result of just thirty days of
legislative business one law has been
placed on the statute books. Two bills
had been passed by both houses and
sent to the governor but they could
not even then be called laws for they
were nothing but small appropriation
bills to meet the expenses of one kind
or another of the members of the legis
lature. The bill which has become a
law Is the Kibbey bill authorizing the
mayor and common council of incor
porated cities and towns to order reg
istratlon of voters, a counterpart of
the bill which was stolen from the
chief clerk of the council. The Kibbey
bill was passed by the house on
Wednesday. It was sent to the gov
ernor Thursday and was immediately
signed.
On Friday last a bill granting the
women of Arizona the right of suffrage
passed the house by the following vote:
Ayes Collins, Cowan, Herr, Henry,
Marlar, Morrison, Parr, Lamont, Roe-
mer, Schilling, St. Charles, Webb,
Whiteside, Williams, Woolf and the
speaker 16.
Nays Barrow, Bernard, Gonzales,
Ingalls, O'Connell, Page, Rowe 7.
The announcement of the vote as
well as the speeches of the champions
of the bill was received with the wild
est applause from the floor and the
galleries, but unfortunately the lead
ers in the equal suffrage movement
were not there to witness their tri
umph. Many of them had not heard
that the bill would be taken up. They
bad learned later that it was under
discussion and some of them arrived
at the capitol as the house adjourned.
Mr. Ashurst Introduced a bill mak
ing sweeping reductions In freight
rates. It is a voluminous document
containing what purports to be a com
plete schedule. Mr. Ashurst also in
troduced a bill providing for the use
of the label of the International Typo
graphical Unidn on all territorial
printed matter.
Mr. Roemer introduced an omnibus
appropriation bill providing for the
maintenance of the two Normal
schools, for the establishing of a ter
ritorial poor farm in Graham county,
for changing the name of the reform
school to the territorial industrial
school and for its maintenance. The
bill provides for a tax levy for these
purposes of seventeen cents on $100.
The Primary election bill was de
feated in the house by a vote of 13 to
12. There is however, a chance of its
being resurrected again.
Speaker Powers introduced a bill,
authorizing the issuance of $100,000
fifty-year bonds for the improvement
of the insane asylum. The bonds are
to become available at the rate of not
more than $20,000 a year.
It was discovered Saturday morning
in course of the council session that
some one had committed a penitentiary
offense. House Bill 31 had been stolen
from the possession of the chief clerk.
It was missed shortly before it was
called up for the third reading having
been favorably reported. Judge Kib
bey who is In charge of the bill, sug
gested the appointment of a ferreting
committee but President Ives believed
it would be better for the present to
leave the matter with a standing com
mittee. This Is known as the Marlar
bill giving mayors and common coun
cils of incorporated cities and towns
authority to order registrations for
regular and special elections. The
bill was drawn and presented at the
request of the advocates of a munici
pal water works system for Phoenix
and provided that for an election on
a bond proposition only those might
be registered who appear on the tax
roll as the owners of personal or real
property.
The following new bills were intro
duced In the house : By Mr. Ingalls
to protect fish in rivers by putting wire
netting over the heads of canals and
ditches; by Mr. Marlar, providing for
the display of the American flag over
school house and for patriotic cele
brations by the schools on Washing
ton's birthday and other holidays.
The council committee on counties
and county boundaries reported favor
ably on Mr. Ashurst's bill authoriz
ing counties of the second and third
class lo appoint a clerk of the board
of supervisors. The report of the
committee was adopted after consider
able discussion. Mr. Ashurst wanted
the bill to pass to its third reading,
but Judge Kibbey asked that it be laid
over for the day. This, however,
failed to secure any action and the
bill takes the regular order.
The house committee on appropria
tions reported favorably on the bill
providing a tax of 3 cents on the $100
for improvements on the Northern
Arizona Normal; the bill appropria
ting $10,000 for a monument to "Buck
ey" O'Neill; the bill providing for
improvements on the Tempe Normal
and making the tax 21 cents and 4
cents on the $100.
Ancient Arizona.
Antiquarian researches have shown
that at one time, of which we have no
historic account, the valleys and mesa
lands of southern New Mexico and
Arizona teemed with a busy popula
tion which followed the peaceful pur
suits of husbandry. Ruined cities
proclaim that fact and other relics of
handiwork. They possessed a high
degree of civilization and were un
doubtedly destroyed by a race of
savages whose decendents have been
the bloody foes of a civilization in the
southwest. Their fixed habitations
show that they lived by tilling the soil
and that they practiced the methods
now in vogue, is shown by extensive
irrigation canals, reservoirs and stor
age dams In the mountains. Many of
them are as extensive and perfect
specimens of engineering skill as those
now being constructed by the aid of
capital and which will again make
Arizona capable of sustaining a dense
population. In the works now being
undertaken capital is but walking in
the footsteps of a prior civilization.
It is making no new experiments and
running no risks.
A petition is In circulation in Pres
cott today and is being signed by
every one to whom is presented pro
testing against the ceding of the pro
posed strip from northern Arizona to
Utah. While It is called a strip, in
reality the territory asked for is great
er in area than the state of Massa
chusetts. Journal-Miner.
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