SRP Tempe Canal
Part of: SRP Canals
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Other Keywords
Irrigation •
Charles Trumbull Hayden •
Charles Hayden •
Jack Swilling •
Swilling Ditch •
Arizona History •
Informative •
B. W. Hardy •
Tempe Irrigating Canal Company •
W. H. Kirkland
Culture Keywords
Hohokam •
Historic •
Euroamerican •
Historic Native American •
Mexican
Investigation Types
Historic Background Research
Temporal Keywords
1870s •
19th Century •
Historic •
1880s •
1890s
Geographic Keywords
Salt River •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Maricopa County (County) •
Salt River Valley •
North America (Continent) •
Maricopa (County) •
Gila River •
Tucson, AZ •
Phoenix, AZ
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The Early History of the Tempe Canal Company (1965)
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In 1892 Judge Joseph H. Kibbey, one of Arizona's illustrious pioneers, described the Salt River Valley before the settlers came as a desert, uninhabited except by jack rabbits, coyotes, and rattlesnakes. Its main vegetation was sagebrush and cactus. It was a level, fertile valley about fifteen miles wide, through which the Salt River flowed west for forty miles to its junction with the Gila. The Salt River was a fluctuating stream. Sometimes it was a raging torrent which flooded the level land...