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<br />oe <br />~ <br />o <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />5. About 60 families live in the project area. The small town <br />of Chino is located in the area on U. S. Highway 89. County roads <br />are adequate and a branch line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe <br />Railway in the proximity furnishes shipping facilities. Electric <br />and telephone services are available but shopping facilities in the <br />area are very limited although they are fairly adequate in Prescott, <br />the closest shopping center. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />6. Irrigation in the Chino Valley is a remnant of a land <br />development plan started in 1913 by the Arizona Land and Irrigation <br />Company. Watson Lake Dam, named for former United States Senator <br />Tom Watson of Indiana, who was one of the group who started the <br />project, was constructed in 1914 on Granite Creek to furnish a <br />water supply for the development. It is a gravity-type, concrete- <br />arch structure about 85 feet high which impounds 3,760 acre-feet <br />of water at spillway crest. It was to furnish a water supply for <br />a contemplated 20,000 acres of irrigated lRnd but proved to be <br />inadequate for the acreage on which cultivation was attempted and <br />the area irrigated declined, The enterprise was operated as a pri- <br />vate corporation until 1926 when the Chino Valley Irrigation District <br />was organized under the laws of the State of Arizona. <br /> <br />7. Willow Creek dam, a reinforced concrete-arch structure 65 <br />feet high with a storage capacity of 3,352 acre-feet, was constructed <br />on Willow Creek, a tributary of Granite Creek, and put into operation <br />during the irrigation season of 1937 to augment the water supply. The <br />drainage a~ea tributary to Willow Creek reservoir is small and the <br />reservoir ~Jnnally does not fill, A cut was mEde through a narrow <br />neck of land separating the two reservoirs to divert-spills from Wat- <br />son Lake into Willow Creek reservoir. Through error, however, this <br />cut was not made sufficiently deep to permit water to flow through <br />it and it has never functioned. <br /> <br />8. In 1930 an artesian basin was discovered immediately adjacent <br />to the project on the north. To augment its inadequate water supply, <br />the District installed a well in 1942 in the project area apparently <br />on the edge of this basin. It was drilled'to a depth of 450 feet and <br />equipped with a pump, bottomed at 208 feet, which has a measured dis- <br />charge of 1615 g.p.m. The location of the well permits it to serve <br />about 886 acres of land although it does not furnish a complete supply <br />for that acreage. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />..'; <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />9. An inadequate and leaky diversion dam on Granite Creek was <br />replaced in 1946 by a new concrete structure which functions-satis- <br />factorily, To reduce excessive water loss in the main canal, it is <br />being replaced with 36-inch concrete pipe. Over 10,000 feet of this <br />pipe has been laid and the _rork is continuing. <br /> <br />~' <br />.~ <br />~~. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />i; <br /> <br />10. The District now operates two storage reservoirs, a pumped- <br />well, two small diversion dams, over 11 miles of canal and pipeline, <br />lat~rals and distribution systems, The present total water supply <br />is still not sufficient to furnish a full supply for the lands which <br /> <br />2 <br />