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Show , June 24, 1882, in t1e Mexican part San Juan '.s Day was being celebrated rode in---v;ith them was Nat and Texas of a cowboys when the t.own, .ban_d had not been popular "lith r€ers The Greer the of boys. rhaps others one of them pilfering one of their colts, had since caught they e Hexicans rn [e.f:>re r-e Leasdnr- him. had executed the uunderslopelt e ar-enark on h; d Hexicans attacked the .cowboys , killing one oft-them and wounding Harris leer. Eigt of the cowboys are said to have road away;' but four wer-e sur lunded ad compelled to take refuge in an ucompleted adobe structure. mshot s were exchanged---some have asserted, per-haps with exaggeration, sever e t,ousands of them. Wen a Lu 1.1 came in the . .diem mi e s Lona rv Ammon use fighting, 'Nata.n 1-1).-' Tenney, .at.t.empt.ed r-S'wEfyre the Greers were C. Tenney, f'st.her- of the not ed by walking to taking refuge, and induced peac emaki.ng the them The sheriff was in the act of t.ak ina the "pr-Lsoner a'' to wher-e some Nexica.ns had taken teir Ll., when a shot. f'r-orn the Barth house, sition---robably intended for one of the Greers---struck "Father" Tenney, "sur-r ender-". V'rouh his head and neck;' and per-haps killing him instantly. Exct.t ement and indi9'nation of course ran high; end t1ere was some. talk of The sheriff, E.S .Stover, however, !!)t them safely en lynching t.he Greers. for trial; and were released with a very Prescott to They were taken ray. ssing ,Q"ht sent ence . Of t.he water supply, at first the 1exicans cLaimed the larger portion; . Mor-mons 3/5 and the l'lexicns 2/5. A"tO'lt sett s the south of 6 mi.Le lement---creating :86, a dam It vias decided to con T1is dam washed out in 1903. e ttSlough Reservoir". 12 miles up the stream; and under it some ruct a much larger dam some t compromise was was 1,000 "Stem !nse gi vi.ng the some ]land, too igh for irrigation under the ear-l.i.e r irrigation expected to be used. The project was carried through at en ex- acres was made constructed of of perhaps $200,000.00. Lyman Reservoir Dam, as this was called since Francis M. Lyman, a church .gni.t.ar-y, 'lad taken much interest in its const.ruct.Lon, , was washed out in '15. r.-1y own diary speaks of theis event thus: "the largest flood in the history of t. Joseph passed here lc:st Friday, broken The Lyman Reservoir above St. Johns had the 16th of April, 1915. the Hunt Reservoir dam gave' tl'Jay; and in the on the llth; the next forenoon, Im early morning of t.he 16th, t he \'loodruff diversion dam was swept out. because of pounded waters added to the already badly swo l len river-stream, storms, caus ed t he water to rise to about 10 inches below the top of the St. Joseph dam; but the Uhigh-dryU structure was practically undamaged, .t.hough thE' low spillway dam Has taken out; and damage was done to thE headgate H and its protective r i.pr appi.ng and to the ditches between the dam and fie1.ds. Il5 is spoken of as one of Arizona's exceptd onal.Ly "viet year-s", Ie --- The Lyman Reservoir dam was reconstructed at much greeter cost, . / |
