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Show Ballinger was not with te mixed company arriving at the site of St. a oseph Mar-ch 2lt, 1876; and perhaps came no farther than Sunset Crossing, if Jesse O. ven to that point. His, company made location rosinp: just mentioned, some 4 miles below te river the south side of the Little Colorado; ard perhaps Both these lower setlocation of Smith's company. on mile above the second Lcment s also constructed forts':"--Snuth' s group using perhaps most.Ly cottonwood :>p:s f'or- t.h= sf.oc kadey and s?me stone; and BalLiner I1sinp; much stone wal l . , First Diversion Dams---Near Crop Failure le It te impr>rative ta,t t!)e new set t.l.er-s on year of their i;rum.l2:ration, or food 'would the Little Colorado produce a crop ceo hau led long di et.anc es to was have to settlements either from southern Utah or from as far away as Aibuquerque, Qnick work was necessary not only in the preparation of the,fields Mexico. cut especially in the constrction of diversion dams in the )r 'platin, Lver and canals from them to the fields. Ballinger first constructed a dam in, 1€ river almost opposite t.he Camp; but find$ng it too low to ,put, the water ) t'1eir fields,. bu i Lt anot.her some ditance up t!1 Little Colorado. 1e w ' T.SJI!;i.thlA910ny constructed their first dam. farther p the river; but. seme. n confluence of CLear' Creek the Li.t t.Le Colorado, s mce Lt.xi, stated that only about, 3 miles ditch vias necessary. the ) w1.th. . . " • . .' " • ( . I I . Ladd, ...;, The Allen company was fortunate in having "lith t.hemSamue l, G: 'W10 t.ae :otter remembers as a 'somewhat eccent.r-i,c old gentleman; well educated and the »saee sor- of his own, surveying instruments of good quality for. the time---he 1S,' a native- of t.he State of Naine, a bachelor until his death at, St. -Jo seph )ri 1 7, 1893. -, Allen's Camp ad Obed combined teir efforts in the constlction of a , ,- . , dam, 12 feet hih across the river-bed, near or at the present ocation of the This neessitat€d some 3 miles of lpper dam" south of the later Penzance. .t ch to carry t'le water t o the f'LeLds of the upper. settlement, and of cour-se ich more to p;et to the fields near the Old Fort. Obed' s ditch was some 6 )me length. One chronicler r-e cor-ded r-e-t'Our- company done 561 days hand 136 days team labor on the dam. The total hand and. team Lacer on dam by both companies (A lien and Obed) was 1696 days. \>1.e al.so done Lies in ibor- and ie on te ditch. Else1ere we find the atement that the total cost of the diversion dam was $6,244.00, divided The dam was finished on the iproxtmat.e l.v equal between .the tl10 colonies. .h of June, and the water taken out of the'river on that date. Under the ii.t ed Order system of pooling labor, crops had been most planted-- 7 davs and, an92l8 days team work nne 50 acres On the 19th of rd Obed ; and already July, ly 60 ares o'r corn, and pot.at.ccs and melons at Allen., of wheat , flood swept away the dam built by ALLen's Camp t.he structures used by the other two colonies at best but about 6 weeks alon from planting were almost a a reatly injured low. Crops A cener al. chronicler records t.he product.i.on of about 75 cushe l,s ri.Lur-e wheat by Smith's Camp, and a little corn, rae lons, etc. by t.he others. .ed , it appea r-s produced pr act.Lca.Ll.y not.ai.ng Another local writer re.r-ds the production at A. L Len IS Camp of about 10 brshel.s of corn and a few .l.ons , not to exceed $20.00 in valuation. Anot.hez- records Vle production 54 bushels of whea.t at Allen---Vlis may have been accomplished by the Ie of "sand dams", Which some of our older people remember as , · , . quic:ly earthen levees put across te river at low water time folicwing flood, t'1us enar-Lfnz t.he settLers to Hater some of their land until ano ter flood, or even a slight rise in the river st.r-eam would overfLow the nd structure. The failure of crops made it necessary to haul food from Utah- entry in atlocal United Order Acct. Bk reads: "Provisions received from sbr Flour #3336, corn meal 505#, shorts Pork 177 3/LJI, 165#, .no l.asses mst ruct.ed , :mse on wa ' 69#, |
