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These files provide excerpts from our Guru's Lair Blogs
mostly to provide a historic time line and discovery record
for our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canals. Some other
outdoor stuff has also been included.

Closed out the 2017 What's New file and started a 2018
one.

Our latest pseudoscience bashing post has been newly
revised here. With its sourcecode here. Along with a
historic third party coverage here.

Some rules...

NEVER attack pseudoscience with manic
religious fervor. Or you become what you
think you are attacking.

NEVER directly confront a pseudoscience
proponent. All this does is piss them off
and get them into a "shoot the messenger"
mode.

ALWAYS try to give third parties useful,
authentic, and genuine scientific resources.
Such as here and here. Let them fight the
actual battles.

ALWAYS remember that rectocranial inversion
can be both acute and chronic at the same time.
Especially when they are "not even wrong".

And some links to our other pseudoscience stuff...

How to Bash Pseudoscience
How to scam a student paper
      This one is only "slightly"
       incorrect. But which?
Supraluminal Dowsing for Brown's
      Gas in Roswell.
Trashing auto electrolysizers
Debunking water powered cars. 
Arguments AGAINST the hydrogen
      economy
Investigating Brown's Gas 
The bogus magic lamp.
The actual bogus magic lamp paper. 
My very first perpetual motion machine
Our main Pseudoscience library

Time for our usual end-of-year predictions...

Long overdue public increasing awareness of power
and energy consumption, partially brought about by
power utilities making meter readings owner accessible.

Total elimination of "unintended consequence" federal
price supports and marijuana farm subsidies dropping
street prices under a cotton comparable 59 cents per
pound. With standardization on 500 pound bales.

Unlikely third world countries very soon dropping their
pv panel prices to the utility grade twenty five cents per
peak panel watt demanded for true renewability and
sustainability.

Major increase in home butane honey oil explosions.

Expanding interest in "water from air" devices.

The sudden and total demise of coal.

Controversial but credible detection of extra-terrestrial
mid-level intelligence "real soon now". Perhaps a planet
full of asparagus. And more "WTF" signals yet to come.

Full width static self-duplexing printheads that can offer
dramatic printer simplification and speedups.

Reduction in traditional auctions and auctioneers brought
about by explosive online popularity. Many traditional
auctioneer  skills are clearly no longer useful.

Dropping relevance of ISO fire ratings, combined with
volunteer daytime response problems, dramatic cost
increases, and major funding issues. ( But - hey. TFD
just got a three! Which is the best it can get. Top dog.
It seems the paid departments hog all the twos and ones. )

Strong sales of ultra resolution smart tv's despite zero
available content. Whose largely unintended  side effect
will dramatically increase the quality of IP print screen
violations.

The terabyte revolution being largely ignored, moving
directly instead into the petabyte revolution. One thumb
drive to hold all movies, or all books, or all history. With
emerging utterly disruptive IP issues.

Increasing climatic and weather variability, combined
with size and frequency of outrageous fires. All clearly
caused by human activity.

Dramatic increases in near field power transmission.
Wireless chargers going from fraction of inches up
to several feet. Driven by WiFi contactless charging.

Total self-destruction of traditional politics.

Merging of tv sets and monitors into identical products.

Substantial medical breakthroughs, especially in the areas
of cancer, diabetes, female sexuality, dentistry, nootropics,
and Alzheimers.

Santa Claus rapidly becoming politically incorrect.

Social media eye siphoning dramatically cutting into more
traditional website present and future use.

Dramatic increase in the popularity of hackerspaces, fab
labs, and makerspaces.

Memory availability increasing exponentially, while
memory needs are only increasing linearly. "Throw
another million calculations at it".

Rapid demise of conventional desktop computers with
laptops utterly dominating.

AI Artificial Intelligence soon crossing a self-awareness
threshold. Boy, are they gonna be pissed.

Computers that are so cheap there is no longer any point in
charging for them.

Stunning new HVAC efficiency breakthroughs by way of
nanotechnology and other new or yet unapplied concepts.

The stranglehold on technical research publication finally
being broken, with open source dissemination dominant,
low access costs, easy publication, long term retention, and
peer review taking place after publication rather than before.

The encounter of the long count keeper.

Updated and posted our latest Reay Canal Field Notes here
and its sourcecode here.

Updated our latest Field Notes links here. With much more
on our Bajada Hanging Canals here.

The overwhelming majority of historic bajada canals seem
to have moderate to compelling evidence of having clearly
been "steal the plans" reworks of prehistoric originals.

But the Roper Lake Canal raises several age issues...

It seems to be orthogonal (!) to Henry's Canal
near 32.74629 -109.72657 presently defying
rational or credible prehistoric explanations.

Roper Lake may not have existed before the
1960's or might have been a local artesian pond.
It is not on the 1960 topo, but appears on the
1985 topo.

The concrete ditch grade seems too steep for
a mud original around 32.74529 -109.73730

The aggregate seems much less coarse than
other historic rework, such as Marijilda.

Significant canal portions are cardinal oriented.

These puzzlements should be resolvable by appropriate
ditch bosses or historians. Contact us if you can help.

So, what percentage of obviously historic bajada hanging
canals were clearly based on prehistoric originals?
A best current guess is "well over 95 percent".

Firstoff, there is very strong bias in favor of "dig out an
old ditch", "steal the plans" or "borrow the blueprints", as
compared to  skillfully engineering a complete and working
new canal system from scratch.

Secondly, we have strong "Rosetta stone" evidence of
canals that clearly have co-linear segments that strongly
show distinct "human" and "machine" scale portions.

Particularly compelling evidence is found in the CluffNW,
Minor Ditch, and Deadman canals. Along with a CNF
Frye Mesa pipeline rework.

Thirdly, the historic rework typically applies only to a
small and obviously repurposed portion of an initially
longer construct. Examples include Deadman and the
Allen Canal rework into Dams and cattle tanks. As were
Robinson, Goat, and Ledford.

Fourthly, the bajada landscape is literally littered with
dozens of easily exploitable examples of  original and
undeveloped prehistoric canals. Ignoring these would
have been sheer folly.

Fifthly, the prehistoric constructs clearly exploited every
reasonably available water source. Leaving a scant few
few unburdened and available for new historic use.

Sixthly is a typical lack of negative historic evidence
that did not particularly preclude a prehistoric origin.

We will look at an enigmatic counter example tomorrow.

How can you tell if a Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal
at least once had a prehistoric original? While any one
factor might be "weak", an overall preponderance of
evidence of similar weak and largely unrelated factors
can often utterly and totally overwhelm.

Here are some factors that might be considered...

"Hanging" portions serve uniquely prehistoric needs.
Construction across, rather than along, the route.
Slopes made strongly independent of local terrain
Run over by roads, fences, dams, and cemeteries.
Meets prehistoric use source and destination criteria.
Lack of original concrete, headgates, wood, or rebar.
Lack of service or maint roads.
Huge cuts or aqueducts used only where essential.
Absolute human scale minimum energy constructs.
Presence of cacti, mesquite, and others midstream.

Long statistical germination time of midchannel plants.
Consistent unshifted patina, lichens, and caliche.
Obvious"mid route" human to high tech scope switching.
Sizes totally consistent with construction by human hands.
Brilliant adaptation of "pinch points" and "knife edging".
Credible "Steal the plans" and "Borrow the blueprints".
Notable lack of cardinal or magnetic direction runs. 
Longer routes favoring meticulously constant slope.
Associated well defined end user fields.
Not in any manner "cow oriented".

Sophisticated route combination and splitting.
Unknown to modern land users.
Lack of modern development along traces.
Does not have a "Gradeall" look about it.
Not in common and popular clan histories. 
Use of water sources considered trivial today. 
Teacups versus acre feet of water.
Watershed crossings of crucial prehistoric import.
Associated artifacts and habitation sites.
Overwhelming preponderance of prehistoric use.

No pipes. No siphons. No eroding steep runs.
Only a small fraction obviously historically reworked.
Historic use stopping midway around the canal route.
"Dig out an old ditch" requiring few historic skills.
Gentle and constant slopes.
Preponderance of evidence from unrelated factors.
Overwhelming "exploit every Mt. Graham water drop".
Many of the canals have no obvious historic purpose.
Styles of CCC constructs wildly different.
Use of local, rather than hauled rock resources.

Channel being significantly on higher ground.
Lack of evidence of iron tool use during construction.
Human size consistent spoil piles where appropriate.
No rocks used that could not be easily hand lifted.
Possible uses of pilot water levels as survey tools.
Historically unlikely to insult"Grandpa's Ditch".
Unified specialized exotic engineering skills required.
Reasonable evidence of historic bajada rebuilding.

But the crucial main reason of all, of course, is...

Because an archaeologist said so.

Just added a bunch of revised field notes. Those presently
available bajada hanging canal docs now do include...

Allen Canal **
Bear Springs Canal **
Cluffnw Canal   **
Deadman Canal **
Frye Complex **
Jernigan Canal  **
Longview Area **
Lower Frye Construct  **
Mud Springs **
Reay Canal  **
Robinson Canal  **
Tranquility Canal  **
Tugood Canal  ** 
Veech Canal  **

Intended for early major upgrade are...

Freeman Canal 
Henry Canal* 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 

For soeurccodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

A catalog of most field notes can be found here and new
additions are are first likely to appear here.

Our intent is to post many of these to ResearchGate.

Your proofing assistance and critique welcome.
As are field mice, drone operators, and ATV honchos.

Added updates to our prehistoric bajada hanging canals
and field notes that do include Mud Springs, Tranquility,
Tugood Canal, and Veech Canal .

Also updated our previous field note link farm here. As
before, substitute .psl trailers to get at the sourcecode.

We hope to get these onto Researchgate shortly

Your proofing assistance and critique welcome.
As are field mice, drone operators, and ATV honchos.

Presently available newly revised bajada hanging canal
field notes do include...

Allen Canal **
Bear Springs Canal **
Deadman Canal **
Frye Complex **
Jernigan Canal  **
Lower Frye Construct  **
Mud Springs **
Tranquility Canal  **
Tugood Canal  ** 
Veech Canal  **

Intended for early major upgrade are...

Cluffnw Canal 
Freeman Canal 
Henry Canal* 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Reay Canal  *
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 

For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

A catalog of most field notes can be found here and new
additions are are first likely to appear here.

Our intent is to post many of these to ResearchGate.

Presently available newly revised bajada hanging canal
field notes do include...

Allen Canal **
Bear Springs Canal **
Deadman Canal **
Frye Complex **

Intended for early major upgrade are...

Cluffnw Canal 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Henry Canal* 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Reay Canal  *
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

A catalog of most field notes can be found here and new
additions are are first likely to appear here.

Our intent is to post many of these to ResearchGate.

The latest revisions to our bajada hanging canal field
notes can be identified by a new final page that will
include one or more topo maps.

Presently available are...

Deadman Canal **

Intended for early upgrade are...

Allen Canal
Bear Springs Canal 
Cluffnw Canal 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Henry Canal* 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Reay Canal  *
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above.

Unwritten field notes are listed here and are first likely
to appear here.

Bear Flat Canal redirects here
Bigler Canal redirects here  
HS Canal redirects here 
Tailwater Canal redirects here

A second release from blog hell would be the purposely
long delayed The The Curious Saga of the Magic Lamp.

Find its .pdf file here and its sourcecode here.

And a third party confirmation here.

More on pseudoscience bashing here.

There are several older entries I'd like to release from
blog hell and upgrade them to real live .PDF GuruGrams.

The first, of course, is our technical treatise on Enameled
Dealing With Four Paws and Groundswill. Find its .pdf here
and its sourcecode here.

Fixed a link glitch and improved and updated our Tugood
Canal Preliminary Field Notes. With new sourcecode here.

A probable destination is now a tank at 32.82118 -109.86670,
but this still needs field verified.

This canal is an ideal candidate for a field camp, or even
for preservation or gasp! as a full restoration. It remains
in a virtually undeveloped difficult access area on the
wrong side of both private and state land postings.

More on these stunningly engineered prehistoric bajada
canals here. With its usual key paper here.

Field mice and drone operators welcome.

Our latest prehistoric bajhada hanging canal publication
is being preliminarily uploaded as A Gila Valley Bajada
Hanging Canal Directory. Find it here and its sourcecode here.

A few dozen links have yet to be completed, and I sure could
use your proofing help in checking those already active.

We expect to have this on researchgate and wesrch shortly.

The key bajada hanging paper can be found here, with bunches
more of them available here.

Field mice, ATV's and drone operators are urgently needed.

Our classic Fundamental Factors Underlying Recent
Technological Innovation paper can be found here
with its sourcecode here.

Concluding our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal list...

20. XXX2
( awaiting reassignment )

19. XXX3
( awaiting reassignment )

18. TBP1
TB Ponding Area
N 32.76739 W 109.73803 to N 32.76465 W 109.73400
Receives and redistributes TEC1 and TWC1 water. 
Highly distinctive aerial profile. Field notes here.
rinc1 rinc2

17. TWC1
Twin West Canal
32.76226 W 109.74374 to N 32.76739 W 109.73803
Hanging canal is SECOND feeder to tb ponding area.

16. TEC1
Twin East Canal
N 32.76068 W 109.73500 to N 32.76472 W 109.73426
Routes UNDER the Lebanon Cemetery, one of TWO 
feeders to the TB ponding area.

15. DPC1
Discovery Park Canal
N 32.79267 W 109.72830 to N 32.79450 W 109.72781
Possible feeder to potential Discovery Park fields.
Vague - still needs additional verification.

14. TQC1
Tranquility Canal
N 32.75754 W 109.73294 to N 32.77477 W 109.72751
Artesian sourced and historic use from presumed original.
Older field notes here.
tranq1 tranq2

13. RIC1
Rincon Canal
N 32.73410 W 109.76325 to N 32.76222 W 109.74402
Marijilda branch possibly becomes Twin West canal.
Further study required, especially mid route.

12. RPC1
Roper Canal
N 32.75567 W 109.70885 to N 32.75567 W 109.70885
Modern feeder to Roper Lake, presumed originally
prehistoric. Possible cardinal realignments.

11. HNC1
Henry's Canal
N 32.73712 W 109.74229 to N 32.74456 W 109.72996
Southern branch of main Marijilda, portions unexplored.
Field notes here.
henry1 henry9

10. SXP1 
Sixpack Canal
N 32.72290 W 109.76052 to N 32.74449 W 109.73391
Branch of Marijilda south of access road, still needs work.

9. HMC1
High Lebanon Hanging Canal
N 32.72410 W 109.76239 to N 32.74113 W 109.74677
Spectacular portion hangs mesa edge 200 feet in the air.
Associated with a major aqueduct.
hangcan1 mary2lebanon_route3

8. MAQ1
Marijilda Aqueduct
32.72356 W 109.76257 to N 32.72411 W 109.76235
Delivers between Main Marijilda and High Lebanon
Only known major system aqueduct crosses a saddle.
Heavy construction energy comparable to HS Canal
and Culebra Cut.

7. SMB1
Marijilda Southern Feeder Branches
N 32.71096 W 109.77108 to N 32.71327 W 109.76696
Short delivery and diversion canals south of Main Marijilda.
Needs further work.

6. MAR1
Main Marijilda Canal from diversion takein.
N 32.70628 W 109.77702 to N 32.73322 W 109.76149
Major prehistoric development likely sourcing Henry's,
High Lebanon, TB East, TB West, and Roper Lake.
Still flowing in maintained modern use.

5. UMC1
Upper Marijilda Delivery Canals
N 32.70648 W 109.77932 to N 32.70930 W 109.77709
Group of small delivery canals near main Marijilda takein.

4. JAC1
Lower Jacobson Hints
N 32.67671 W 109.77610 to N 32.67736 W 109.77472 
Largely discredited. Aerial evidence became a fence
line in canal hostile terrain.

3. LDC1
Ledford Tank Canal.
N 32.68454 W 109.76209 to N 32.69198 W 109.72801
Jacobson Canyon to middle of  Ledford Mesa.
Apparently still in modern use, difficult access.

2. GTC1
Goat Tank Canal
N 32.68467 W 109.76160 to N 32.68914 W 109.72106
Jacobson Canyon to south edge of Ledford Mesa.
Apparently still in modern use, difficult access. Partial
private lands. Includes curious historic pipeline.
goat4 goat5

1. VCN1 
Veech Canal
From middle Veech Canyon to possible P Ranch Fields
N 32.64151 W 109.74348 to N 32.64386 W 109.74218
Only preliminary explored, should be significant.
Entire canal is on CNF lands.

Continuing our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal list...

39. ALD1
Allen Dam Failure 
N 32.83324 W 109.79383 
Back in its water skiing (!) days, might have
been fed by the Allen Canal. GuruGram here.
N 32.83324 W 109.79383

38. ALC1
Allen Canal
N 32.78237 W 109.83540 to N 32.83253 W 109.80507
Major prehistoric canal possibly includes Frye Watershed 
crossing. Includes impressive Culebra Cut Destination
remains unknown. Earlier field notes here.
allen0 allen1 culebra1

37. RBC1
Robinson Ranch Canal
N 32.75997 W 109.81147 to N 32.79930 W 109.79027
Major hanging canal with strong down = up illusion sources
from Lower Frye Mesa ponding area. Relation to Reay
Canal not yet resolved.
Field notes here.
rob1 rob2 rob3

36. TAP1
Twin Artesian Ponds
N 32.79956 W 109.78347 and N 32.80264 W 109.78091
No obvious links to nearby Golf Course Canal, but unlikely
to have been prehistorically ignored.

35. GCC1
Golf Course Canal 
N 32.79811 W 109.78286 to N 32.79895 W 109.77587 
Major prehistoric canal serviced Daley Estates area.
Includes hanging portions. Some routings remain
unknown. Likely related to HS Canal and Riggs Canyon
and Reay Canal. .
golf1map gc1 gc2 golf3

34. RGC1
Riggs Mesa Area Braided Channels
Area of N 32.77763 W 109.78729 to N 32.77831 W 109.78694
Enigmatic channels may be routing between HS Canal and Golf 
Course Canal. Needs further work.

33. BPC1
Blue Ponds Canal
N 32.78118 W 109.77771 to N 32.78064 W 109.77607
Short disused historic pond routing canal is likely a
portion of Lower Frye Construct and Freeman Canal.
Presently has been "lost" and awaits rediscovery.
Includes obvious concrete headgates.

32. LFC1
Earlier Freeman Canal Search
N 32.76634 W 109.79377 to N 32.77185 W 109.78715
This initial search for a Blue Ponds to Lower Frye
connection was discredited due to horseshoes on an
apparent wagon road. See #75 LFEX1 for current
interest.

31. HSC1
HS Canal
N 32.75987 W 109.81163 to N 32.75771 W 109.81511
Spectacular hanging and counterflowing structure RETURNS 
water to Frye Creek, possibly sources Golf Course, Blue
Ponds, and Freeman Canals. Among the three most major
known constructs that include the Aqueduct and the
Culebra Cut. Absolutely and unquestionably world class.

30. FPA1
Lower Frye Mesa Ponding area.
N 32.75995 W 109.81148
Gathers in Frye Mesa braided channels to support HS Canal, 
and Robinson Canal. Also likely still unproven Golf Course,
Blue Ponds, Lower Frye, and Freeman Canals.  Also
still unproven is an upper Frye watershed crossing.  

 29. MFC1
Main Mid Frye Mesa Delivery Canal
N 32.74573 W 109.84033 to N 32.75995 W 109.81148 
Partially undiscovered but demanded by Frye Ponding
Area, HS Canal, Golf Course, and Robinson Canal.
The simplest to explain source would be an Upper Frye
watershed crossing that remains unproven.

28. FWD1
Upper Frye Watershed Diversion
N 32.74427 W 109.83918 to N 32.74558 W 109.84033
Unproven potentially spectacular watershed crossing 
seems demanded by HS Canal and others. With any
present alternates lacking credibility. A significant
and obvious watershed crossing has been previously
proven on the Mud Springs Canal at 32.79159
-109.85379

27. LVC1
Longview canal
N 32.78956 W 109.75971
Obvious short wall on otherwise unsupported short
canal segment with local destination. Sourcing
unknown and unproven. Early field note here.

26. ALS1
Alberto's Signature
near N 32.79690 W 109.75485
Of the thousands of conflicting CCC structures
locally, this one  is the only known one that is
autographed in stone. Associated with Freeman
Canal.

25 CKD1
Check Dams with Aprons
N 32.77872 W 109.76472 or N 32.78840  W 109.87113
plus many others Rock diversions across secondary
washes are quite common. While not hanging canal
related, they represent significant water management
features.

24. MRG1
Mulch Ring Arrays
N 32.78491 W 109.74642 plus many others.
Typically 2 feet in diameter by one rock high in 
groups of 20. Rather common. Likely older.

23. XXX1
( awaiting reassignment )

22. WS1
Water Spreader Rock Alignments
Such as 32.78883 W 109.73843 and N 32.79273 
W 109.75897 and elsewhere. The more obvious 
of these are CCC, but many, many prehistoric 
examples also exist.

21. DMC1
Main Deadman Canal
N 32.73735 W 109.81291 to N 32.76277 W 109.77392
Still flows in original channel serving cattle tanks. 
Portions are buried pipeline. Field notes here.
deadman3 deadman4> deadman5

Continuing our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal list...

60. BSC1
Bear Springs Scam
N 32.85049 W 109.94399 to N 32.87226 W 109.92596
Apparent scam huge historic canal from a source highly
unlikely to have been prehistorically ignored. The
history part needs resolved first as the present canal
is much too large for prehistoric development..

 59. NWD1
Nuttall Watershed Diversion
N 32.77471 W 109.95411 to N 32.77774 W 109.95532
Postulated third watershed crossing would supplement 
Sand Canal. Largely Discredited. Present Sand Canal
takein believed near 32.81238 -109.94797.

58. SWC1
Sand Wash Canal
32.81238 -109.94797 to N 32.83508 W 109.92274
Ideal short tour candidate has nearly everything including 
easy access. May be prototype as final channel minuscule.
Mysterious historic "cluttering" with random "stuff". Tri
branched. Earlier Field Notes here.
sand4 sand6 sand8

57. MR1
Mystery Reach
N 32.81793 W 109.90207 to N 32.82478 W 109.90003
Once convincing aerial evidence field verified more as
a disused vehicle two track. Largely discredited.

56. LMC1
Lamb Tank Canal
N 32.81196 W 109.92310 to N 32.81445 W 109.92266
Difficult access. Additional study required.

55. SLC1
South Lefthand Canal
32.83101 W 109.91453 to N 32.83366 W 109.91555
Yet to be verified aerial image.

54. LWC1
Lefthand West Canal
N 32.82077 W 109.91835 to N 32.82564 W 109.91851 
Prehistoric original adapted for historic field reuse.

53. MLC1
Main Lefthand Canal Complex
N 32.80850 W 109.91812 to N 32.81680 W 109.91872
Shorter canal segments primarily used for end use delivery.
Paper here.

52. TGC1
Tugood Canal
N 32.80923 W 109.87115 to 32.82100 -109.86675
Most impressively pristine of the known hanging canals. 
Superb restoration candidate. Older field note here.
tugood1 tugood2

51. MWD1
Minor Webster Ditch
N 32.79771 W 109.87296 to N 32.81310 W 109.86638 
Historically redeveloped canal shows reasonable evidence 
of unmodified prehistoric origins. Somewhat paired with
the Tugood Canal. Older field note here.
minor1 minor2

50. CNW1
Cluff Northwest Canal Complex
N 32.82494 W 109.84652 to N 32.83635 W 109.84302
Strongly redeveloped canal system includes convincingly 
authentic prehistoric reaches.

49. CSW1
Cluff Southwest Canal
N 32.81586 W 109.84971 
Branches from the Smith Canal takein on Ash Creek.
Still unexplored. Likely a short destination.

48. STC1
Smith Tank Canal
N 32.81870 W 109.84689 to N 32.82055 W 109.84458
Likely has unproved prehistoric original. Early field
notes here.
smith1 smith2 smith3 smith4 smith5

47. LMT
Lower Mud Trace
N 32.80803 W 109.84448 to N 32.81882 W 109.84093
Aerial images appear to be field verified as a historic
two track. Largely discredited.

46. JEC1
Jernigan Canal
N 32.82765 W 109.81953 to N 32.84131 W 109.81649
One of few canals with obvious destination. Conspicuous 
hanging portion, habitation sites. Three "U" turns.
Portions still unaccounted for. Older field note here.
jern1

45. MST1
Mud Springs Tank
N 32.82766 W 109.81896
Apparently historic construct would seem to demand Mud 
Springs Canal for its water.

44. MJB1
Mud Jernigan Branching Point
N 32.82765 W 109.81953
Apparent location of the beginning of the Jernigan Canal,
branching off the Mud Springs Canal. Three portions of the
route remain unresolved.

43. THP1
Troll House strange structure
N 32.82538 W 109.82281
Enigmatic pithouse like mud springs canal related 
structure lacks charcoal evidence and is intimately
mud springs canal related.
troll1

42. MSC1
Mud Springs Canal
N 32.79153 W 109.85375 to N 32.84796 W 109.81105
Major canal system branches to Jernigan, includes several
hanging portions and spectacular proven watershed crossing.
Plus a troll house. Destination remains unknown.
Earlier field note here.
mud1 mud2 mud4 troll1

41. ACF1
Ash Creek Feeder to Mud Springs
N 32.79016 W 109.85478 to N 32.79140 W 109.85388
Source for Mud Springs canal via proven spectacular watershed 
crossing but not yet fully explored. Possibly obliterated by
Tropical Storm Octave.

40. CUC1
Culebra Cut
N 32.83567 W 109.79796 to N 32.83560 W 109.79841
Spectacular major large cut in Allen Canal below historic dam.
One of the three largest known local hanging bajada canal
constructs. Others include the HS Canal and the aqueduct.
Allen field notes here. Dam failure docs here.
culebra1

We seem to be due for another revision of our Prehistoric
Bajada Hanging Canal list, perhaps adding images.

There are presently two ways to count the canals, the study
candidates list ( now 82 ) that may include multiple names
having missing pieces and a very few discredited entries kept
to avoid duplicate efforts. Plus a certified list in the forties
of  those strongly validated.

Either way, the total lengths awaiting drone mapping appear
likely to well exceed a world class and utterly spectacular
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILES!

Starting today with some of the latest...

82. LOWR2 -
Understudied Lower Rincon
Near 32.77355 -109.74263 to 32.77360 -109.74166
Possibly part of still unproven Discovery Park Canal.

81. TBD1
Thunderbird Canal
32.74350 -109.73323 to 32.74353 -109.73261
Previously unnamed portion of CC:5:51 under restudy.

80. REY1
Reay Canal
32.80623 -109.77622 to 32.82236 -109.77287
Endangered possible Golf Course Canal Destination.
reay1 reay3 reay5

79. LPZ1
Lopez Canal
32.82141 -109.76650 to 32.82376 -109.76307
Discredited - likely a 4wD track.

78. ARTS1
Artesian #1 Canal
32.75273 -109.72032 to 32.76247 -109.71188
Flowing historic canal in strong artesian area
likely to have seen prehistoric use as well.
artes1a artes1b artes1c

77. ARTS2
Artesian #2 canal
32.75288 -109.72043 to 32.75288 -109.72043
A second but apparently commonly sourced and still
flowing historic canal in a strong artesian area. Has
possibly been cardinal redirected from original.

76. TALW2
Tailwater2 Canal
32.83987 -109.91578 to 32.84067 -109.91407
Discredited - likely historic orchard overflow.

75. LFEX1
Lower Frye Extension
32.77325 -109.78377 to 32.77428 -109.78270
Required but unproven link between Frye Complex,
Blue Ponds Canal, and Freeman Canal.
frye_lead200

74. GCC1
Grant Creek Canal 
32.59825 -109.96483 to 32.58887 -109.96758
South of Mount Graham historic canal that may or may 
not have had prehistoric origins.

73. HCC1
Hog Canyon Canal 
32.55361 -109.76449 to 32.55407 -109.76414
South of Mount Graham possibly prehistoric
canal currently unexplored. Possibly perennial.

72. CNU1
Canal near UFO Fish Fillets
32.81428 -109.96678 to 32.81536 -109.96618
Short canal previously studied by Dr. Neely.
Location is approximate.

71. CBAE1
Bandelier Artesian Extension 
32.93523 -109.94128  to 32.94158 -109.92112
Dried up artesian lake may have enormous
potential. Definite signs of historic reuse plus
possible Bandoleer Canal source.
band2 band3 band4

70.LFC1
Lower Frye Construct
32.76749 -109.79289  to 32.76824 -109.79178
Mysterious and unexplained construct may have
major prehistoric canal significance. Likely
Blue Ponds Canal and Freeman Canal related.
Extensive study still needed. Field notes here.
frye100 frye101 frye106 frye108

69.UMC11
Upper Marijilda Canal 
32.70664 -109.77779  to 32.70693 -109.77729
Smaller hanging canal near Marijilda diversion.

68.DEC1
Deadman East Canal 
32.75295 -109.78502  to 32.75655 -109.77688
Potentially significant prehistoric canal remains
largely unexplored due to difficult access. 
Field Notes here.
deadman5

67. SCC1
Sand Canal Center Branch 
32.82953 -109.92950  to 32.83441 -109.92705
Destinations of easily traced canal remain unknown.
Canal apparently uses a natural drainage partial route.
sand19 sand30

66. SCW1
Sand Canal Western Branch 
32.82953 -109.93063  to32.83441 -109.92705
Destinations of easily traced canal remain unknown.
sand40

65 SR1
More Spear Ranch Work
32.83348 -109.91548 and 32.83616 -109.91440
Additional survey required north of Lefthand.

64. PRM1
P Ranch Mysteries
32.61817 -109.72829 to 32.61611 -109.72809
Additional survey required beyond Veech.

63. UFO1
UFO Fish Fillets
N 32.81203 W 109.97330 to N 32.82299 W 109.96420
A highly atypical apparent CCC project that may or may 
not have had prehistoric origins.
ufooff

62. BDC1
Bandelier Canal
N 32.94446 W 109.91120 to N 32.94677 W 109.91317
Appears to be deep vee riverine canal possibly linked to
artesian source at 32.93522 -109.94131 but apparently
unrelated to most mountain stream fed resources.

61. GRD2
The grids
Near N 32.78651 W 109.74353 to  N 32.79408 W 109.75260
Rectangular agave farming arrays. Many thousands north 
of the Gila river, a few hundreds south. Not directly canal
related, but enormously significant area features.
bestgrid

Some unresolved losers here.

Almost all of our Guru's Lair is my own original work,
but we do have a Third Party Library for some other
"credit where credit is due" contributors.

This library is sorely in need of better indexing, updating
and revision, so here are some of the other participants... "

Mitutoyo -
       Digimatic Interface Details

Bee Lancaster -
     Bee's Library Pages
     Exploring Arizona for Gems
     Where to Order Maps
     Hiking Grand Canyon

Ken Shirriff -
    VCR Plus Codes

Everset
     WWVB ES100 Application Kit

Frederick Jonnsson -
    Lorenz "Owl's Mask
    Lorenz "Owl's Mask Sourcecode

Jim Fitzsimmons -
    Real Length of a Bezier Curve
    Exploring Binary Chain codes
    Magic Sinewave Higher Harmonics.
    Bezier curve recursive midpoint rule
    Bezier curve through four points ( old - better here )
   Bezier circular arc approximation
   Fitting points to a Bezier curve
   Fast Bezier curve evaluation
   Alternate view of a Bezier curve
   Bezier curve sinewave approximation
   Accuracy of PostScript Circles

Warren Lail -
    Mount Graham Archaeological Survey

Jim Neely -
    Co-authored Papers
    Preservation Archaeology Blog
    Lefthand Canyon Paper
    Prehistoric Ag Paper
    Gila Canals Paper
    Tecoatles Paper
    Purron Dam Paper
    Iran Settlement Patterns

    2009 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2010 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2011 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2012 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2013 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2014 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2015 Blog Canal Excerpts
    2016 Blog Canal Excerpts

    Restricted access ( ask )
    Additional Material on Researchgate

Robert Ackermann -
    Marbelous Stacks of Pancakes
    Marbelous 4   
    Lagrange Bezier Fit #1
    Lagrange Bezier Fit #2
   Lagrange Bezier Text Code
   Lagrange Bezier PostScript Code
   Legendre Lowpass Filter Comparison

Aubry Jaffer -
   Mathematics of Marbeling

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Dayhikes.
We are now up to 517 primary entries!

The latest of which include new birding resources, access
to Lidar alternatives to  to the satellite imagery of Acme
Mapper or Google Earth. Along with some newly revised
Gila High Tech Resources with its sourcecode here.

A sampler of some of the more unusual day hikes can be
found here.

And more details on your spectacular research opportunities
of our Prehistoric Bajada Hanging canals here.

A fer of the many open "help wanted" projects were
summarized here. There are dozens of newer ones.

For years, I've been creating what, for a better name,
we might call Lancasterisms. These are intentional but
apparent topographical errors intended to reveal a
higher or greater truth.

Such as a groundswill of popular demand. Or what
those French Veterinarians call a "four paw". Or being
overly enameled on some idea. Or ending up a few
bricks shy of a full deck. Frosting the lily or gilding the
cake. Or not being able to hit the barn side of a broad.
Or the mythinterpretiation of something.

Or sources close to an associate of the barber of a
usually reliable spokesperson. Some  New uses for
Chebycheff Polynomials would take the Cheby to the
Leby. Many of the web perpetual motion schemes
and those electrolysis fantasies involve electrocity.

All in one swell foop. Provided there's no oint in the
flyment An unauthorized autobiography. A jerk of
all trades. The local hysterical society. A fragrant
volition. The word  "gullible" is not in any major
dictionary or spell checker. 

Godzilla versus the Night Nurses. Especially the
tapioca pudding scene.

Letting the cows come home to roost. So long as
they are elected by acrimination. That little dip
between the winter slump and the spring slack
period. Sort of the qualm before the scorn. Confusing
Cannabis and Cannibal tasting tours. Geranium
transistors. A wine that "pours well".

Plays a mean eclectic guitar. Pioneers new methods
of animal husbandry. Speaks Esperanto like a native.
Bruno's attitude relateralization facillitation. The long
lost oriental martial art of Tai Wun Oun. Will be
persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Reaching
a new millstone.

Geologists, of course, classify rocks as sedentary,
ingeneous, or metaphoric. And New Mexico hikers
might call an emergency rain shelter a Poncho Villa.
The illegal aliens in the Alabama Grits Harvest, will,
of course, be used for flavor only. 

Right after the Ayatollahs Bar Mitzvah. Rectocranial
Inversion being both simultaneously chronic and acute.

"I'll give you just three hours and fifty one minutes to
STOP THAT!". Norfolk & Waay is the leading eBay 
supplier of drop ship items. Separating the useful
adjuncts for porcine whole body cleanliness from the
total hogwash. 

These are somehow related to the Yogi Berra's of
others, such as "Nobody goes there because it is too
crowded", "Deja Vu all over again", or "Let's keep
the Status Quo right where it is. Or "When you come
to a fork in the road, take it".

Or Ed Abbey's classic "Androgynous Ammonia".
Which might even involve an engendered species.

I have a hollow feeling I've lost some of the better
ones of these somewhere along the way. As you go
through some of my older books and stories, please
 report any that may be missing in action.

Because Opporknockity tunes but once.

Much more here, here, and here.

Yesterday's Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canal
explorations may have revealed a new study
candidate #81 (!) in or around 32.74355 -109.73242.

It is indistinct in heavy brush just off an ATV
track, likely is a Henry's Canal branch or is
supplied by it, and definitely needs a second
opinion as to its scope and validity.

Moderately dense potsherds and similar artifacts
are in somewhat nearby association.

The actual canal count is somewhat lower and
remains ambiguous in that a canal with a nonobvious
segment connection presently may count double. A very few
study candidates ( perhaps 8 ) have also been dropped
from present further study as lacking enough credibility.
These are purposely  kept in the listing to avoid later
effort duplication.

Nonetheless, there are a great heaping bunch of
these highly unique world class structures. And
their total length now appears quite likely to
exceed ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILES!

Counting ONLY the perennial mountain stream
candidates and, of course, ignoring all of the plain old
ho hum Gila sourced riverine alternatives.

Much more on these spectacularly engineered world
class constructs here and a key paper here. Your
participation as a field mouse or ATV or drone operator
are very much welcome.

I've always considered PowerPoint to be mesmerizingly
awful, so I wrote my own emulator using my Gonzo
Utilities to generate Acrobat .PDF equivalents.

These files are much more compact, are totally
device independent, load much faster, and offer 
significantly better graphics.  It is not even close. 

A newly revised Gila High Tech slide can be found
here with its improved sourcecode here.

Other available Powerpoint emulation resources and
emulations now include...

A Gonzo Tutorial and Directory
A Gonzo PostScript PowerPoint Emulator

High Tech Gila Valley Features ( sourcecode here )
Successful eBay Buying Strategies  ( sourcecode here )
Successful eBay Selling Strategies  ( sourcecode here )
Little known Gila Valley Dayhikes  ( sourcecode here )
Prehistoric Hanging Canal Lecture  ( sourcecode here )
Energy Fundamentals Intro & Summary  ( sourcecode here )
PV Panel Intro & Summary  ( sourcecode here )
Mount Graham Aerial Lumber Tramway  ( sourcecode here )
An Introduction to Magic Sinewaves  ( sourcecode here )
Three Phase Magic Sinewaves  ( sourcecode here )
Alternate Lores Magic Sinewaves

Consulting, custom design, and training services available.

Lidar is an interesting alternative supplement to the
satellite imagery of Acme Mapper or Google Earth. It
consists of monochromatic aerial infrared illumination
and can offer significant resolution  improvements and
unique visualization enhancements.

Only a tiny fraction of Arizona is provided for in this
directory, but, amazingly, just about all of our
prehistoric bajada  hanging canals are covered.

This 2016 sample printout extracted from "2016 AZ
Fredonia Safford D16" from the United States
Interagency Elevation Inventory is of interest to our
Reay Canal Field Notes. The location is 32.81484
-109.77578 and can be compared against this Acme
Mapper Image.

The image was further enhanced by a "print screen"
and Imageview32 magnify and sharpen stunt. Note
that a decompressor such as WinZip is needed.

The corral area is dramatically improved, and a previously
unviewable structure can be observed near the now wet
streambed. But so far, the projected central "required"
canal route  ( bearing 15 degrees ) does not seem to yet 
yield obvious and crucially needed new info.

Field mice and drone + ATV  operators are urgently needed.

A reminder that we have a set of links to our Guru's Lair
Directory of filetypes here. These are useful for finding
any "lost" or "underlinked" or "hidden" files.

Here are the individual fieltype links...

.asp web files 
.aspx web files 
.bas Basic files 
.config web files 
.bmp Bitmap Image files
.eml email files 
.gif compressed image files
.gz compressed winzip files
.htaccess files
.htm files
.html files ( most redirect to shtml )
.ico fast nav icon files
.jpg compressed image files
.js JavaScript files 
.kml Google Earth files
.lnk shortcut files
.log files 
.pdf Adobe Acrobat files 
.png compressed image files 
.ps PostScript Language files
.psl "PostScript Lancaster Sourcecode" files
.shtml html + include files
.txt text files
.xml files

The secret to making your own links by filetype is to first make a local
copy of your website and then do something like this...

C:/Users/don>dir "F:/webbackup7.17/*.asp" /S /OEN /W

Plus our usual reminder that you can now own your own personal copy
of one each of everything per these details.

Newly available is a tentative early release of the
Reay Bajada Hanging Canal  Preliminary Field Notes
along with its sourcecode.

In general, the field notes are horribly incomplete and
have gone through several generations. Those considered
"current" ( with an "*" ) can be identified by upper left PDF 
nav buttons and a new upper right KML clickthrough. All 
of the notes demand more images and ongoing revisions.

The KML itself remains an out-of-date and inaccurate pilot.
At present, Chrome only returns KML sourcecode which 
you have to manually save to drag and drop into Google Earth.

Here are most of the presently available field notes...

Allen Canal
Bear Springs Canal 
Cluffnw Canal 
Deadman Canal * 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Henry Canal * 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Reay Canal  *
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

 ( For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above. )

Bear Flat Canal redirects here
Bigler Canal redirects here  
HS Canal redirects here 
Tailwater Canal redirects here

New field notes are likely to first appear here or later.

Meanwhile, please drop all your of live video spare drones 
into our driveway.

Newly available is a tentative early release of the
Henry's Bajada Hanging Canal  Preliminary Field Notes
along with its sourcecode. .

In general, the field notes are horribly incomplete and
have gone through several generations. Those considered
"current" ( with an "*" ) can be identified by upper left PDF 
nav buttons and a new upper right KML clickthrough. All 
of the notes demand more images and ongoing revisions.

The KML itself remains an out-of-date and inaccurate pilot.
At present, Chrome only returns KML sourcecode which 
you have to manually save to drag and drop into Google Earth.

Here are most of the presently available field notes...

Allen Canal
Bear Springs Canal 
Cluffnw Canal 
Deadman Canal * 
Freeman Canal 
Frye Complex 
Henry Canal * 
Jernigan Canal 
Lefthand Canyon West 
Longview Area 
Lower Frye Construct * 
Mud Springs 
Minor Webster Ditch 
Riggs Mesa Canal 
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal 
Smith Canal 
TB Ponding Area* 
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

 ( For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above. )

Bear Flat Canal redirects here
Bigler Canal redirects here  
HS Canal redirects here 
Tailwater Canal redirects here

New field notes are likely to first appear here or later.

Your participation and support of this unique world class
research project would be much appreciated.

Meanwhile, please drop all your of live video spare drones 
into our driveway.

Newly updated and expanded our Gila Valley Dayhikes.
We are now up to 514 primary entries.

More here and here.

Just after WWII, our sun suddenly became a radio star.
owing to widespread expansion of VHF television broadcasts.

And Captain Video, Roller Derby, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
suddenly became our goodwill ambassadors to outer space.

These signals have now swept out over ONE MILLION CUBIC
LIGHT YEARS of space and have been overwhelmingly likely
to annoy many distant extrasolar Goldilocks planets.

At signal levels that remain detectable with our current 
technology. Curiously, the signal strength drops off with
the square of the distance, but the number of annoyed 
planets increases with the cube of the distance.

Consider this: What interpretation would "they" make over
a lucid ten second clip of Roller Derby as the sum total of
Earth based humanity?

BTW, Additional Captain Video clips newly appear here.

A reminder that we have THE definitive Gila Valley
dayhikes guide here. It includes exact locations of
all but the most sensitive of places to go and things
to do.

The trips can be greatly added to by using Google
Earth, or my very favorite Acme Mapper. A local
hiking club can be found here.

Some of the lesser known dayhikes have now been 
gathered together here. This is also a great example
of how PostScript can completely and utterly blow
Power Point out of the water on all counts. Many
more examples here.

Separately, if you want your outdoor activities to
make a significant contribution to ongoing exciting
world class research, check out our Prehistoric
bajada hanging canals you'll find here.

A collection of field notes can be linked here. And
we are now newly posting to Research Gate. Or
contact us for more  details.

A copy of our latest hanging canal field notes has just
been newly uploaded to Researchgate.

You'll also find many Dr. James Neely papers here,
both on our local hanging canals and worldwide. As
well as many different response and participation
options for you.

Meanwhile, here, here, and here are our latest images
of our latest possible hanging canal find that potentially
are located here.

Sadly, the evidence to date is "not quite" strong enough
and further study is definitely needed to see if it is real.

Your participation welcome.

Let the sleeping dogs lie. Because I will not believe
them anyway.

Turns out there are dozens of "lost" Guru's Lair pages
caused by underlinking or even no linking at all. Here's
a few of them that might remain of some interest...

aafont01.shtml - Bitmap manipulation Library
acrob01.shtml - Acrobat Library
adeptinv.shtml - Long sold out robotics
advt01.shtml - Banner advertising opportunities
amlink01.shtml - Book access
ara01.shtml - Historic conference record
aucres01.shtml - Your own regional auction finder
barg01.shtml - Bargain page catalog software
beewb01.shtml - Bee's own library pages
capvid01.shtml - Captain Video's secret mountain laboratory
consul01.shtml - Older consultant's network
flut01.shtml - Flutterwumpe machines that spit or chomp
glair01.shtml - Guru Archive Collection
golly01.shtml - Golly Gee Mister Science
info01.shtml - Your InfoPack Solutions
image01.shtml - Image Postproc Graphics Library
libry01.shtml - Main Library Page ( still needs revision )
msquant/retry_m/xxxx.shtml - Latest magic sinewave calculator
magsn01.shtml - Main Magic Sinewave Library
magsna1.shtml - Magic Sinewave Historic Archive
map01.shtml - Site Map ( still needs revision )
navcub01.shtml - Navicube navigation library
picup01.shtml - Some older PIC resources
psweb01.html - Some older PostScript web resources
synlib01.shtml - Synergetics library page
third01.shtml - Third Party Resources
tinaja01.shtml - Tinaja Questing Library
wave01.shtml - Wavelets Library
weblib01.shtml - Older web resource library
webwb01.shtml - Some ancient web resources

Plus our usual reminder that we have one each of everything
here and bunches of resources on our prehistoric hanging
canals here.

Managed to upload our Lower Frye Construct field
notes to Researchgate.

Who are a major open source research free publishing site
with many millions of current papers. Yes, "independent"
researchers are welcome here, but you will need a referral
or two or significant evidence of your published research history.

Competing open source research publishers include...

Academia
Archive
Arxiv
Carnegie OLI
Doaj
Figshare
Free Video Lectures
I Programmer
Justfree eBooks
Lulu
Mendel
MIT Open Courseware
MyScienceWork
OSTI
PDF Drive
PLOS One
Quartzy
Questia
Researchgate
SSRN
Vixra
Wesrch
Wikipedia

Please email me on others who belong on the above list.

More field notes here and more hanging canal info here.

Just added a new bunch of things to do to our
Gila Valley Dayhikes page. Which is now up to
512 major entries.

Extended details on a few of the more obscure
trips can also be found here.

Quite a few YouTube videos of the area are starting
to appear and probably should be mentioned in passing
for our Gila Valley Dayhikes.

Some random samples of varying interest and quality...

"McNary" Tunnel
Ash Creek Flash Flood
Climbing Frye Mesa Reservoir
Hiking the Gila Box River Trail
Frye Mesa Natural Waterslides
Wilderness First Recovery
Road Less Traveled US191
Exploring Mount Graham
Frye Mesa Video #1
Frye Mesa Video #2
Frye Mesa Video #3
Frye Mesa Video #4
Frye Mesa Video #6
Frye Mesa Video #7
Frye Mesa Video #8
Frye Mesa Video #9
Frye Creek Potholes
Safford Hanging Canals
Mount Graham Ice Cave
Mount Graham Streams
Frye Canyon
Smores Canyon
Hike to the Potholes
Frye Mesa Cruise
Stone Fire
Dankworth Pond

As is usual and even typical of street signs, McEniry Tunnel
is misspelled. His own signature appears here.

More on our hanging canals here, with their Field Notes here.
While not Gila Hike related, my own video can be found here.

I'd like to start a definitive directory of utterly useless ( but
nonetheless absolutely true ) factoids. Such as...

The Canary Islands were named after a large dog.
The eastern end of the Panama Canal is on the Pacific Ocean.
There are forty six states in the US. ( plus four commonwealths )
Reno is west of San Diego. 
The propane fire training simulator often adds icicles to its fireball.
Arkansas has six states on its southern boundary .
There is more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline than there is
       in a gallon of liquid hydrogen. Mole fractions and all.
Lake Havasu City AZ has more lighthouses than anywhere else.
The tallest mountain in the world is in South America.
The original Woodstock closing act was supposed to be Roy
      Rodgers and  Dale Evans singing Happy Trails.
Lawrence Welk did a cover on One Toke Over the Line
New York state is north, south, east, and west of Norwalk, CT. 
It is possible to score a one point safety in NFL football.

The latter has not happened since the 1940's, but they have since
tightened up the rules. It still remains possible. There have been
two more recent NCAA college calls.

Please email me your contributions.

A now even more famous media newscaster has just 
inadvertently confused "cannabis" with "cannibal"
in describing a tasting tour.

The definitive video on all this appears here.

You are welcome to participate in the following world
class research...

1. Does a reach of the Freeman canal
    exist near 32.77320 -109.78400?

2. Can you re-find the "lost" historical
    Blue Ponds Canal near 32.78073
    -109.77904? Can you strengthen the
    premise that it had a "steal the plans"
    prehistoric origin and in fact is part
    of the Freeman Canal?

3. What, if anything, is at 32.78051 -109.78214?
    Does it have prehistoric significance?

4. What, if anything, is at 32.78904 -109.78401?
    Is it Golf Course Canal related?

6. Can you acquire more evidence that 32.76386
     -109.79526 is in fact prehistoric and not a wagon
    road or 4WD track? How far southward and
    ultimately westward can you trail this?

7. Is the image at 32.80811 -109.84444 significant?

8. Can you find additional evidence of a prehistoric
    origin for the Tugood Canal at 32.82097 -109.86675?

9. The entire Deadman East Canal still needs explored,
    particularly its destination. Start at 32.75644 -109.77729

10. Is there a prehistoric canal trace at 32.76117 -109.80065?
      How is it related to HS, Freeman, and Golf Canals?

Particularly needed are GPS keyed images and videos of drone
flyovers. Much more info here.

Updated a revised index for our woefully behind Hanging
Canal Field notes.

In general, the field notes are horribly incomplete and
have gone through several generations. Those considered
"current" ( with an "*" ) can be identified by upper left PDF
nav buttons and a new upper right KML clickthrough. All
of the notes demand more images and ongoing revisions.

The KML itself remains an out-of-date and inaccurate pilot.
At present, Chrome only returns KML sourcecode which
you have to manually save to drag and drop into Google Earth.

Here are most of the presently available field notes...

Allen Canal
Bear Springs Canal
Cluffnw Canal
Freeman Canal
Frye Complex
Golf Course Canal
Jernigan Canal
Lefthand Canyon West
Longview Area
Lower Frye Construct *
Mud Springs
Minor Webster Ditch
Riggs Mesa Canal
Robinson Canal *
Sand Canal
Smith Canal
TB Ponding Area*
Tranquility Canal
Tugood Canal
Veech Canal

 ( For sourcecodes, substitute .psl trailers above. )

Bear Flat Canal redirects here
Bigler Canal redirects here 
HS Canal redirects here
Tailwater Canal redirects here

New field notes are likely to first appear here or later.

Your participation and support of this unique world class
research project would be much appreciated.

Meanwhile, please drop all your of live video spare drones
into our driveway.

Just added a Revision 1.04 update to our Don Lancaster's
Vintage Early Classics USB.

This includes over 100 Megabytes of new files, sourcecodes,
eBooks, and videos. Now well over two Gigabytes total!

Easily searched for "hidden" or "lost" material. All totally open
and unlocked. Immediate availability.

When it comes to Italian food, you can't be both
anti pasta and pro volone.

I've long been fascinated by Hugo Gernsback's Science
and Invention Magazines, many of which are now available
for free download by American Radio History.

These are a curious mix of concepts decades ahead of
their time, on down ( waaay on down ) to the utterly
ludicrous. The later of which today give us a new depth
of meaning to "WTF?".

Fascinating are the advertising scams that ranged from
more miles per gallon to patents to bodybuilding to
perpetual motion to psychic prizes, to "win a car"
puzzles that bore a striking resemblance to today's
penny auctions.

Oh yeah, you can also earn up to $300 per month just
by taking a radio correspondence course. Or build your own
dining room furniture. Or an airplane.

One of the lesser known features of Google-earth is its
ability to go back to previous or historic satellite imagery.

Yeah, most of these will be blurry and they do not go back
all that far,

BUT...

The satellite appearance of a prehistoric hanging canal very
much depends on time of day, time of year, recent moisture,
and especially if it is full of dead flowers from a recent bloom.

This image suggests a prehistoric canal route exactly
where it is needed. The slope elevations also seem credible.
Of interest is the slanty SW to NE route through the center.

To recreate the image original, search Google Earth to
32.77364 -109.78318 and then use the history bar to go back
to November of 2011.

I'm not yet sure this adds credence to a projected THIRTEEN
KILOMETER (!) supercanal. Foot access is mesmerizingly awful.

More on the study area here and on these stupendously mind
blowing world class engineered canals here.

If you are the sort of hiker that brings along all your own
catclaw just in case there is not enough along the route ( the
word "trail", of course, is not in your vocabulary ) , please
contact us.

Ether way, please drop off all of your excess drones in our
driveway. We particularly need the type with live video
continuous feedback.

Certainly the most important drill any volunteer or
paid firefighter can do is following hose couplings
out of a burning building.

One magic incantation is "SMOOTH BUMP BUMP
TO THE PUMP."

Be able to sense this with your eyes closed. Another
hint: Drop the hose to sense which coupling is nearest.

Just added a new bunch of things to do to our
Gila Valley Dayhikes page. Which is now up to
508 major entries.

Extended details on a few of the more obscure
trips can also be found here.

The Lower Frye Construct  prehistoric field notes are newly
available, with their PDF file here and their PSL sourcecode
here.

Other hanging canal field notes were recently linked here.

A reminder about our "one each of everything" USB.

A computer without Cobol or Fortran is like a chocolate
cake without ketchup or mustard.

Outside of that, Missus Lincoln, how was the play?

The TB Ponding Area prehistoric field notes are newly
available, with their PDF file here and their PSL  
sourcecode here.

Other hanging canal field notes include...

Allen Canal field notes & sourcecode
Longview Area field notes & sourcecode
Mud Springs Canal field notes & sourcecode
Riggs Mesa Canal field notes & sourcecode
Robinson Canal field notes & sourcecode
Tranquility Canal field notes & sourcecode

And some of our previous ones due for updates or revisions...

Bear Springs Canal field notes & sourcecode
Cluffnw Canal field notes & sourcecode
Freeman Canal field notes & sourcecode
Frye Complex field notes & sourcecode
Golf Course Canal field notes & sourcecode
Lefthand Canyon West field notes & sourcecode
Minor Webster Ditch field notes & sourcecode
Sand Canal field notes & sourcecode
Smith Canal field notes & sourcecode
Tugood Canal field notes & sourcecode
Veech Canal field notes & sourcecode

This one is not quite ready for a prime time demo
just yet, But it is exciting enough and mind boggling
enough to demand an immediate heads up.

It seems there is this language called KML that
lets you add all sorts of personal custom features
to Google Earth and similar resources. KML
is similar to .xml and .shtml but also has its own set
of highly specific and arcane rules.

KML is poised to completely blow away GIS and
its relatives in that it is flyable! In the end, nothing
else matters! The outcome is not the least in doubt.

A KML file is created as an ordinary text file
with a .kml trailer. Clicking on it should automagically
link to a local copy of Google Earth. Otherwise, you
can drag and drop into any text editor for creation
or edits.

Typically, as part of a .kml program, you will create
any number of paths and then add descriptions to
those paths.

Clicking on the path causes a box to appear
with a title and a message. What is ultra exciting is
that, besides the text in the description, you can
add .html like links to any website, an external
Acme or similar map, videos, animation, .PDF's,
or any number of photos.

Here is a preliminary code fragment...

<Placemark>
<name>Allen Canal</name>
<description>Sources in Spring Canyon --
Overrun by Allen Dam --
Major Culebra Cut --
End fields unknown <br/>
<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.website.com">
Site Name</a>.]]> --
<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.acmemaplink.com">
Map Name</a>.]]> -
<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.image.jpg">
Image Name</a>.]]> -
</description>

Links can be either web or local pc based. More info
on the CDATA tag can be found here.

Among its other exciting possibilities, you should now be
able to directly link topo maps to Google Earth.

There's a few minor details I haven't picked up on just yet.
The links seem to trash normal carriage returns and I've
yet to make the links bold. Removing the underlines would
also be nice.

And so far, loading a kml file with Chrome seems to give
you text only. The annoying workaround is to save the
Chrome download as a file and then click on the file.

Surely this detail will soon be resolved with one or more
working Chrome extensions.

Much more to follow.

Yorg. We were just the victims of a double home invasion
and a double identity theft. Seems two neighborhood
pussy cats cracked the security on our cat doors.

In hindsight, we probably should have changed the
default door factory password from "meow".

The Robinson Canal prehistoric field notes are newly
available, with their PDF file here and their PSL
sourcecode here.

Other hanging canal field notes include...

Allen Canal field notes & sourcecode Longview Area field notes & sourcecode
Mud Springs Canal field notes & sourcecode
Riggs Mesa Canal field notes & sourcecode
Tranquility Canal field notes & sourcecode

And some of our previous ones due for updates or revisions...

Bear Springs Canal field notes & sourcecode
Cluffnw Canal field notes & sourcecode
Freeman Canal field notes & sourcecode
Frye Complex field notes & sourcecode
Golf Course Canal field notes & sourcecode
Lefthand Canyon West field notes & sourcecode
Minor Webster Ditch field notes & sourcecode
Sand Canal field notes & sourcecode
Smith Canal field notes & sourcecode
Tugood Canal field notes & sourcecode
Veech Canal field notes & sourcecode

Yorg. It sure can be frustrating when you "almost"
end up with a software solution.

I want our hanging canal field notes to have an option
where the .PDF file can directly click through to a
custom .KML map in Google Earth.

The PostScript and Acrobat end of things was rather
trivial, as these Gonzo code fragments show us...

/clickforkml { save /ksnap exch store 34 53
translate 0 0 mt 2 pu 7.2 pr 2 pd closepath
gsave 0.94 0.94 0.98 setrgbcolor fill grestore
0.8 0.8 0.8 setrgbcolor line2 stroke 0.6 0.6
(|6|/surl Click for KML |/kmlx ) cl ksnap
restore} store

<< /kmlx (https://www.tinaja.com/canal
      /mapimage2.kml) >> {mark exch
      /eurl cvx ] cvx def} forall

The rest of the sourcecode should shortly appear
here. And its generated field note here.

The only tiny missing detail is that Chrome
returns a kml textfile instead of linking to
Google Earth. And I have not been able to
get the kml Chrome extensions to fix this.

The present awkward workaround is to take the
returned Chrome .kml file, do a save as locally
and then click on the saved KML file to actually enter
Google Earth.

Your suggestions on how to eliminate this painful
and klutzy step are more than welcome.

Chemistry 101: If you are not part of the solution, then
you are part of the precipitate.

Acme Mapper has strongly suggested a previously
unvisited routing and end field destination for the
Tugood Hanging canal you can find at...

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=32.81985,-
109.86602&z=18&t=H&marker0=32.81945%2C-
109.86662%2Cunnamed&marker1=32.82123%2C-
109.86665%2C5.7%20mi%20SxSW%20of%20Pima
%20AZ&marker2=32.82038%2C-109.86672
%2C5.7%20mi%20SxSW%20of
%20Pima%20AZ&marker3=32.81827
%2C-109.86684%2Cunnamed

Energy considerations and materials used strongly
suggest Tugood has prehistoric origins. But
the apparent cattle tank destination would suggest
historic reuse and would seem to reasonably demand
additional proof of prehistoricity.

Tugood would seem to be an excellent candidate
for restoration or preservation in that it is largely
single owner controlled in what to me appears to
be largely unused and marginally secondary rangeland.

Some earlier Tugood field notes are found here
with their sourcecode here and an earlier KML main
map of  the entire canal system here.

The latest GIS map version is found here.

Deeply buried in our Guru's Lair is some medical
stuff, mostly oriented towards a wellness lifestyle
and aerobic exercise. I still use these occasionally
for fire department fitness drill training exercises.

The big three are...

Don't Get Sick
A wellness Lifestyle Quiz
Aerobic Pulse Rate Chart

A review by a real doctor here...

Bee's Website

And these also rans...

Understanding Pulse Monitors
Recording Aerobic Exercise Sessions
Aerobic Fitness PostScript Sourcecode

The leading web medical resource is Medline.
You normally search this with PubMed.

Also check out Healthy.Net.  And one collection of
the top 25 web medical resources can be found here.

Some older alternate medical book resources here.

I may have completed our website catalog directory
arranged by file types. Please report any omissions.

This should be most useful for finding "lost" or
"hidden" or "underlinked" files. It is also gives
you new search options. And eases finding which
directory a particular file is in.

Another way to search is with our "one each of
everything" USB.

Key catalog textfiles include...  

web_asp_directory1.txt
web_aspx_directory1.txtweb_bas_directory1.txt
web_bmp_directory1.txt web_config_directory1.txt web_eml_directory1web.txt web_gif_directory1web.txt web_gz_directory1web.txt web_htaccess_directory1.txt web_htm_directory1.txt web_html_directory1.txt web_ico_directory1.txt web_jpg_directory1.txt web_js_directory1.txt web_kml_directory1.txt tweb_lnk_directory1.txt web_log_directory1.txt web_pdf_directory1.txt web_png_directory1.txt web_ps_directory1.txt web_psl_directory1.txt web_shtml_directory1.txt web_txt_directory1.txt >web_xml_directory1.txt

Watch out for the cliff!
        What CLIFFFFFfffffffff?

Watch out for the ping pong ball!
         What ping pong gloulckkk?

Watch our for the ladder!
         What ladder dedadder dedadder dedadder?

Watch out for the revolving door!
         What revolving door .. ing door .. ing door?

Curiously, there does not seem to be the faintest hint
of these on the web.

I'd like to try and find the rest of these and give them
a long missing home on the web. Please email me
with your candidates and suggestions.

Let's repeat it one more time...

Assumption is the mother of mistakes.  

This from Buckaroo Banzai, which is by far the
finest medical, science fiction, rockumentary, love story,
comedy, racing, comic book, quantum mechanical, 
musical, pro nerd, watermelon ode, survivalist,
intergalactic war documentary movie of all time.

Overwhelmingly the best movie of its type that
was ever made.

Also present: No matter where you go, there you are.

A video of the original turbo encabulator can be found
here. Along with decades of "me too!" coverts here.

My own approach can be found here.

In addition, of course, somebody needs to restore
and ebookify the UAAC Songbook. Sadly, this
item remains banned in all civilized nations of
the world. And even in parts of Texas.

Two Texans bragging about how big their lands were...

"Why, my spread is so big, I could drive all morning and
not get half way across it."

"Yeah? I had a truck like that once."

Alexander Graham Kernatski was the first telephone pole.

I still feel that this paper has not ever gotten the coverage
I that feel it rightly deserves.

Amazingly, rectocranial inversion can easily be both
chronic and acute at the same time.

One of the more amazing features of American Radio
History is that you can search virtually every word
of a century's worth of just about any publication
that is even remotely radio related.

Buried in this treasure trove were three early Color
Organ projects newly found here, here, and here.

My own color organ projects are linked here, with
additional notes here and here.

If there is one thing I can't stand, it is intolerance.

I find those inane surveys needed to access some web
stories to be maddeningly infuriating. An obvious defense
is to make their results utterly useless by ALWAYS
lying like a rug and ALWAYS generating the most 
wildly improbable responses.

Ferinstance, when asked for your favorite brand of 
Smoke Detector, you reply "Pepsi".

When asked what products you associate with the
Acme Veeblefeltzer company, you reply "ketchup".

And otherwise generate the most mesmerizingly awful
responses that you can possibly dream up.

This fiendishly subtle math puzzle has been newly
kicking around the web...

The problem is to find the yellow area, given the  
other areas shown. IF you are willing to think
waaaay out of the box, the obvious answer is
seven, and it should take you about four seconds.

If you do not rush things.

On the other hand, a formal solution will take
a quarter hour or so. Unless you insist on
dragging Pythagoras kicking and screaming
into the fray, which would be totally unneeded
and take you much longer.

Here's the formal and mind-numbingly subtle solution:

Call x the width and y the height. Call a the  left
width and b the right width. Call c the top height
and d the bottom height.

Oops.

You can only write five equations in six unknowns..

x = a + b
y = c + d
c = 8/x   ( from the triangle area formula )
b = 6/d
ay = 4

There is no way to explicitly solve for x or y and it
turns out there are an infinite number of solutions to
these equations. The best you can hope to do is
find y = f(x).

Eliminating variables a b c and d leaves you
with something like this messy result...

xy = 6xy/(xy-8) + 4

Let z = xy and chew on this for a while to get this
quadratic (!)...

z^2 -18z + 32 = 0

Which factors as...

(z - 16) (z- 2) = 0

This tells us one possible total area is 16. Thus x = 4 and
y=4 is one of an infinite possible set of solutions. One
solution is square and the rest exhibit rectangularity.
All demand that xy = 16.

I am not sure of the significance of the second root.

The "outside-the-box" solution? 180 blue for  a rectangle
of 8 and double it for a total area of sixteen. Subtract
2 + 3 + 4 for the seven result.

Much more math stuff here. And here. And
especially here.

Expanded our Gila Valley Dayhikes pages. We
are now up to 405 main entries.

Newly added are the Roper Lake kayak rentals,
a bunch of hidden CCC water projects, and
a seldom visited "secret " hanging canal.

I've long been a fan of the law of the unintended consequence.
Especially when nobody seems to be paying the slightest attention.

An obvious analysis here. And additional predictions here.

Many years ago, a certain New York editor who had
never been off the block at Lawn Guiland visited a
Texas ranch. He was amazed at how greasy the sheep
were and asked why they greased their sheep.

The ranch hands had a big laugh over this and tried
to explain lanolin. Then they moseyed up the draw to 
the cow oiler.

Pico de Gallo - A very small parrot.

Speaking of baud rates, the day the world clearly
went to hell in a hand basket was when "they"
shifted from 110 to 150 Baud. Comm has clearly been
downhill ever since.

But the ultimate baud rate story is the century long run
made by the Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph. Yup, they
had a baud rate -- ONE BAUD!

They were clearly the LAN of the nineties. The
EIGHTEEN NINETIES!

These amazing devices were a fist sized clockwork
that included such stunning concepts as private URL's,
error trapping, collision detection, network reconfig,
and even emergency re-routing.

More here.

There's a new toned down video version of "Debbie Does 
Dallas" out. It is titled "Doris Does Des Moines".

There is an easy way to spot an extroverted engineer:

They stare at your shoes rather than their own.

A free web interactive version of the original Collosal
Cave adventure can be found here.

And, while you certainly should not rush these things,
the latest new Scott Adams Adventure can be found
here.

And most of the older Scott Adams adventures here.

And, amazingly, a voice driven Alexis version of
Collosal Cave here.

Did I ever tell you about the time Mad Magazine stole
my Spring Training cover suggestion without paying for it?

This was somewhat after my involvement with the CIA
Bay of Pigs incident.

The recent mention of our ongoing successful eBay
nuclear holocaust fashion accessories brought to
mind many of these mostly no longer available
Synergetics products...

WATER SOLUBLE SWIMSUITS - Long gone are
these designer kits absolutely guaranteed to dissolve
in warm water. Nearly all of which were snarfed up by
quilters, felters, boat builders, magicians, and the many
aficionados of kiddy slime.

DIMPLED CHAD - And the obsolete voting booths
they were in literally stolen at an action were, of
course, quickly sold out to amateur astronomers.

CAVER'S WRIST SUNDIALS - Still in development,
but absolutely guaranteed to attract more attention
than a Rolex. Synthetic spent carbide also remains
under beta testing. Owing to declining interest in
the genuine item.

TINFOIL HAT LINERS - Genuine Chomerics nearly
instantly sold out. But you had to be sure to place the
material outside the foil to stop thought control and
inside the foil to prevent them from reading your mind.

PONCHO VILLAS- Remain quite popular with many
southwestern hikers as emergency rain shelters.

GODZILLA VERSUS THE NIGHT NURSES - Cross
genre classic had to be pulled from theaters and directly
released to 8 track after the restraining order from the
Tapioca Pudding Institute.

REVERSIBLE TRUCK TIRES - Currently easing the
vehicle repacking and reloading hassles owing to different
tire sizes and spacings at the New Mexico ports of entry.

CLONABLE TELEPORTATION - Present sales limited
to unprecedented demand by importers of specialty herbs
and spices. The 4:1 duplication factor lets you set your
own foreign exchange rates and greatly reduces all the
waiting around at Customs.

BRUNO - Continuing services by the attitude relaterization
facilitator for a major eBay newsgroup.

SIX new bajada hanging canal study candidates... (!)

A dried up artesian lake at 32.93522 -109.94131
A UFO Fish Fillet neighbor at 32.82028 -109.96201
Grant Creek historical reuse at 32.59503 -109.96552
A Hog Canyon mystery at 32.55377 -109.76436
Still barely flowing artesian at 32.75469 -109.71762
And its adjacent neighbor at 32.75704 -109.71886

An interesting consequence of current product development 
is that form no longer follows function. 

Not so long ago, if you wanted a telephone, you had to place
a heavy transformer and a klutzy dial in a box too big and too
heavy to pick up.

If you wanted a camera, you had to have space for two cylindrical
rolls, a film plane, and the bottom out of a coke bottle or some
similar piece of glass out front.

Television sets and other display devices had to be heavy and deep 
because of how far you could bend electrons in a vacuum.

If you wanted some information, you had to carry it around either as
a flat disk or a long strip of tape or film.

If you wanted some light, you ended up with a high intensity point 
source and severe heat management problems.   

These days, a telephone can be any shape and size, and routinely 
can include a video camera, a pocket watch, a flashlight, a GPS
receiver, and a laser pointer as an absolute minimum. 

Display devices can now be arbitrarily flat and thin. Flexible, even.
Cameras can be any shape and size. Even ( a mystery to me )
including SLR lenses that once cured a long gone defect.

Gigabytes ( and soon, cup ) of data storage can be any shape
or size and often totally static. With a present size limit of slightly
larger than an USB connector. 

And point source LED lighting makes no sense whatsoever, as multiple
sources with manageable heat become the norm. 

Much more on technical innovation secrets here.

Have added a new set of Allen Canal Field Notes in
our Bajada Hanging Canal series.

Sourcecode is here with additional notes here. And
more field notes here.

Along with some limited Allen Dam failure docs here.

Can you prove that (1) the dam actually was used for
water skiing, and (2) The Allen Canal was its main
water source?

Our prehistoric bajada hanging canals seen uniquely
original this side of the Canary Islands. ( aside --
which were named for a large dog! ).

A reasonable question could be exactly where "they"
got the idea to extend the unique perennial streams
from Arizona's highest mountain ( measured from its
base ) and hang them on the sheer bajada mesa edges
to make their slope independent of terrain.

Yes, there were riverine canals. But the engineering on
these seems orders of magnitude less sophisticated than
the hung ones. And certainly vastly less unique.

A dried up artesian lake at 32.93519 -109.94131 may
reveal some clues. This may have been a large lake
that attracted evidence of both prehistoric and historic
use. The lake may have overflowed to a natural
wash and likely ran all the way to the Gila River.

And thus could have served as a prototype example
of "get some water and move it elsewhere".

A second artesian source and delivery system can
be found at 32.75294 -109.72004 More might appear
unproven but likely.

Additional info here. Your participation welcome.

A reminder that we likely have the world's entire
remaining supply of "kiss your onager goodbye"
nuclear holocaust fashion accessories here.

These are absolutely mint.

Here's a tentative update for a master list of our bajada
prehistoric hanging canals candidate study area field notes...

1. VCN1 
Veech Canal
From middle Veech Canyon to possible P Ranch Fields
N 32.64151 W 109.74348 to N 32.64386 W 109.74218
Not yet explored, should be significant.

2. GTC1
Goat Tank Canal
From Lower Jacobson Canyon along southern edge of 
    Ledford Mesa
N 32.68467 W 109.76160 to N 32.68914 W 109.72106
Apparently still in modern use, difficult access.

3. LDC1
Ledford Tank Canal
From Lower Jacobson Canyon along middle of 
    Ledford Mesa.
N 32.68454 W 109.76209 to N 32.69198 W 109.72801
Apparently still in modern use, difficult access.

4. JAC1
Lower Jacobson Hint ( largely discredited )
N 32.67671 W 109.77610 to N 32.67736 W 109.77472 
Aerial evidence became a fence line in hostile terrain.

5. UMC1
Upper Marijilda Delivery Canals
N 32.70648 W 109.77932 to N 32.70930 W 109.77709
Group of small delivery canals near main Marijilda takein.

6. MAR1
Main Marijilda Canal aka Lebanon Ditch from Marijilda 
      Dam to Lebanon Reservoir
N 32.70628 W 109.77702 to N 32.73322 W 109.76149
Major prehistoric development, still flowing Modern Use

7. SMB1
Marijilda Southern Feeder Branches
N 32.71096 W 109.77108 to N 32.71327 W 109.76696
Short delivery and diversion canals south of Main Marijilda

8. MAQ1
Marijilda Aqueduct
Delivers between Main Marijilda and High Marijilda
32.72356 W 109.76257 to N 32.72411 W 109.76235
Only known major system aqueduct crosses a saddle.

9. HMC1
High Marijilda Hanging Canal
N 32.72410 W 109.76239 to N 32.74113 W 109.74677
Spectacular portion hangs mesa edge 200 feet in the air.

10. SXP1 
Sixpack Canal
N 32.72290 W 109.76052 to N 32.74449 W 109.73391
Branch of Marijilda south of access road, still needs work

11. HNC1
Henry's Canal
N 32.73712 W 109.74229 to N 32.74456 W 109.72996
Southern branch of main Marijilda, portions unexplored.

12. RPC1
Roper Canal
N 32.75567 W 109.70885 to N 32.75567 W 109.70885
Modern feeder to Roper Lake, presumed mostly prehistoric.

13. RIC1
Rincon Canal
N 32.73410 W 109.76325 to N 32.76222 W 109.74402
Marijilda branch possibly becomes Twin West canal.

14. TQC1
Tranquility Canal
N 32.75754 W 109.73294 to N 32.77477 W 109.72751
Artesian sourced and historic use from presumed original.

15. DPC1
Discovery Park Canal ( vague - still requires verification, )
N 32.79267 W 109.72830 to N 32.79450 W 109.72781
Possible feeder to potential Discovery Park fields.

16. TEC1
Twin East Canal
N 32.76068 W 109.73500 to N 32.76472 W 109.73426
Routes UNDER the Lebanon Cemetery, one of TWO 
       feeders to the TB ponding area.

17. TWC1
Twin West Canal
32.76226 W 109.74374 to N 32.76739 W 109.73803
Hanging canal is SECOND feeder to tb ponding area

18. TBP1
TB Ponding Area
N 32.76739 W 109.73803 to N 32.76465 W 109.73400
Receives and redistributes TEC1 and TWC1 water. 
      Highly distinctive aerial profile.

19. MFC1
Mystery Feeder
N 32.76738 W 109.74366 to N 32.76681 W 109.74181
Short Canal segment might tie Deadman or Deadman 
     South to Twin West. Needs more work

20. DMS1
Deadman South
N 32.75525 W 109.78008 to N 32.75650 W 109.77712
Unexplored potential canal has strong Acme Mapper 
     presence. Includes mystery alignments.

21. DMC1
Main Deadman Canal
N 32.73735 W 109.81291 to N 32.76277 W 109.77392
Still flows in original channel serving cattle tanks. 
     Portions are buried pipeline.

22. WS1
Water Spreader Rock Alignments
Such as 32.78883 W 109.73843 and N 32.79273 
W 109.75897 and elsewhere. The more obvious 
of these are CCC, but many, many prehistoric 
examples also exist.

24. MRG1
Mulch Ring Arrays
N 32.78491 W 109.74642 plus many others.
Typically 2 feet in diameter by one rock high in 
     groups of 20. Rather common.

25 CKD1
Check Dams with Aprons
N 32.77872 W 109.76472 or N 32.78840 W 109.87113
      plus many others
Rock diversions across secondary washes are quite common..

26. ALS1
Alberto's Signature
N 32.79690 W 109.75485
Of the thousands of conflicting CCC structures locally, this one 
    is the only known one autographed in stone

27. LVC1
Longview canal
N 32.78956 W 109.75971
Obvious short wall on otherwise unsupported short canal segment 
    with local destination. Sourcing unknown and unproven.

28. FWD1
Frye Watershed Diversion
N 32.74427 W 109.83918 to N 32.74558 W 109.84033
Unproven potentially spectacular watershed crossing 
    seems demanded by HS Canal and others.

29. MFC1
Main Frye Mesa Delivery Canal
N 32.74573 W 109.84033 to N 32.75995 W 109.81148 
Partially unproven but demanded by Frye Ponding Area, 
       HS Canal, Golf Course, and Robinson Canal.

30. FPA1
Lower Frye Mesa Ponding area.
N 32.75995 W 109.81148
Gathers in Frye Mesa braided channels to support HS Canal, 
      Golf Course?, and Robinson Canal.

31. HSC1
HS Canal
N 32.75987 W 109.81163 to N 32.75771 W 109.81511
Spectacular hanging and counterflowing structure RETURNS 
      water to Frye Creek, possibly sources Golf Course.

32. LFC1 ( largely discredited )
Lower Frye potential route
N 32.76634 W 109.79377 to N 32.77185 W 109.78715
Possible route includes wagon road with horseshoes, 
      could feed Blue Ponds.

33. BPC1
Blue Ponds Canal
N 32.78118 W 109.77771 to N 32.78064 W 109.77607
Short disused historic pond routing canal may or may
        not have unproven prehistoric origins.

34. RGC1
Riggs Mesa Area Braided Channels
Area of N 32.77763 W 109.78729 to N 32.77831 W 109.78694
Enigmatic channels may be routing between HS Canal and Golf 
      Course Canal.

35. GCC1
Golf Course Canal 
N 32.79811 W 109.78286 to N 32.79895 W 109.77587 
Major prehistoric canal serviced Daley Estates area, includes 
      hanging portions and mystery structure..

36. Twin Artesian Ponds
N 32.79956 W 109.78347 and N 32.80264 W 109.78091
No obvious links to Golf Course Canal, but unlikely to be
       prehistorically ignored.

37. RBC1
Robinson Ranch Canal
N 32.75997 W 109.81147 to N 32.79930 W 109.79027
Major hanging canal with strong down = up illusion sources
    from Lower Frye Mesa ponding area

38. ALC1
Allen Canal
N 32.78237 W 109.83540 to N 32.83253 W 109.80507
Major prehistoric canal possibly includes Frye Watershed 
         crossing. Destination remains unknown.

39. ALD1
Allen Dam Failure 
N 32.83324 W 109.79383 
Back in its water skiing (!) days, might have been fed by the Allen Canal.

40. CUC1
Culebra Cut
N 32.83567 W 109.79796 to N 32.83560 W 109.79841
Spectacular major large cut in Allen Canal below historic dam.

41. ACF1
Ash Creek Feeder to Mud Springs
N 32.79016 W 109.85478 to N 32.79140 W 109.85388
Source for Mud Springs canal via proven spectacular watershed 
       crossing but not yet fully explored.

42. MSC1
Mud Springs Canal
N 32.79153 W 109.85375 to N 32.84796 W 109.81105
Major canal system branches to Jernigan, includes several 
      hanging portions. Destination remains unknown.

43. THP1
Troll House strange structure
N 32.82538 W 109.82281
Enigmatic pithouse like mud springs canal related 
      structure lacks charcoal

44. MJB1
Mud Jernigan Branching Point
N 32.82765 W 109.81953
Apparent location of the beginning of the Jernigan Canal.

45. MST1
Mud Springs Tank
N 32.82766 W 109.81896
Apparently historic construct would seem to demand Mud 
      Springs Canal for its water.

46. JEC1
Jernigan Canal
N 32.82765 W 109.81953 to N 32.84131 W 109.81649
One of few canals with obvious destination. Conspicuous 
      hanging portion, habitation sites.

47. LMT
Lower Mud Trace ( largely discredited )
N 32.80803 W 109.84448 to N 32.81882 W 109.84093
Aerial images appear to be field verified as a historic two track.

48. STC1
Smith Tank Canal
N 32.81870 W 109.84689 to N 32.82055 W 109.84458
Likely has unproved prehistoric original.

49. CSW1
Cluff Southwest Canal
N 32.81586 W 109.84971 
Branches from the Smith Canal takein on Ash Creek. Still unexplored.

50. CNW1
Cluff Northwest Canal Complex
N 32.82494 W 109.84652 to N 32.83635 W 109.84302
Strongly redeveloped canal system includes convincingly 
authentic prehistoric reaches.

51. MWD1
Merrill Webster Ditch
N 32.79771 W 109.87296 to N 32.81310 W 109.86638 
Historically redeveloped canal shows reasonable evidence 
of unmodified prehistoric origins

52. TGC1
Tugood Canal
N 32.80923 W 109.87115 to N 32.82008 W 109.86671
Most impressively pristine of the known hanging canals. 
Superb restoration candidate.

53. MLC1
Main Lefthand Canal Complex
N 32.80850 W 109.91812 to N 32.81680 W 109.91872
Shorter canal segments primarily used for end use delivery

54. LWC1
Lefthand West Canal
N 32.82077 W 109.91835 to N 32.82564 W 109.91851 
Prehistoric original adapted for historic field reuse.

55. SLC1
South Lefthand Canal ( Needs verification )
32.83101 W 109.91453 to N 32.83366 W 109.91555
Yet to be verified aerial image

56. LMC1
Lamb Tank Canal
N 32.81196 W 109.92310 to N 32.81445 W 109.92266
Likely lefthand source. Additional study required.

57. MR1 ( largely discredited )
Mystery Reach
N 32.81793 W 109.90207 to N 32.82478 W 109.90003
Fairly convincing aerial evidence field verifies more as
      a disused vehicle two track.

58. SWC1
Sand Wash Canal
N 32.83099 W 109.92604 to N 32.83508 W 109.92274
Ideal short tour candidate has nearly everything including 
easy access. May be prototype as final channel minuscule.

 59. NWD1
Nuttall Watershed Diversion
N 32.77471 W 109.95411 to N 32.77774 W 109.95532
Postulated third watershed crossing would supplement 
Sand Canal water sourcing. Unverified.

60. BSC1
N 32.85049 W 109.94399 to N 32.87226 W 109.92596
Apparent scam historic canal from a source unlikely to
     have been prehistorically ignored.

61. GRD2
The grids
Southern examples include N 32.78651 W 109.74353
         and N 32.79408 W 109.75260
Rectangular agave farming arrays. Many thousands north 
        of Gila river, a few hundreds south.

62. BDC1
Bandelier Canal
N 32.94446 W 109.91120 to N 32.94677 W 109.91317
Appears to be deep vee riverine canal unrelated and 
       unlinked to present study area.

63. UFO1
UFO Fish Fillets
N 32.81203 W 109.97330 to N 32.82299 W 109.96420
A highly atypical CCC project that may or may 
      not have had prehistoric origins.

64 PRM1
P Ranch Mysteries
32.61817 -109.72829 to 32.61611 -109.72809
Additional survey required beyond Veech.

65 SR1
More Spear Ranch Work
32.83348 -109.91548 and 32.83616 -109.91440
Additional survey required north of Lefthand.

66 SCW1
Sand Canal Western Branch
32.82953 -109.92950  to 32.83442 -109.92704
Destinations of easily traced canal remain unknown.

67 SCC1
Sand Canal Center Branch
32.82953 -109.92950  to 32.83442 -109.92704
Destinations of easily traced canal remain unknown.

68.DWC1
Deadman West Canal
32.75295 -109.78502  to 32.75655 -109.77688
Potentially significant prehistoric canal remains
largely unexplored due to difficult access.

69.UMC11
Upper Marijilda Canal
32.70664 -109.77779  to 32.70693 -109.77729
Smaller hanging canal near Marijilda diversion.

70.LFW1
Lower Frye Wall
32.76749 -109.79289  to 32.76824 -109.79178
Mysterious and unexplained construct may have
major prehistoric canal significance.

71. CBAE1
Bandelier Artesian Extension
32.93523 -109.94128  to 32.94158 -109.92112
Dried up artesian lake may have enormous potential.

72. CNU1
Canal near UFO Fish Fillets
32.81428 -109.96678 to 32.81536 -109.96618
Short canal previously studied by Dr. Neely.
Location is approximate.

73. HCC1
Hog Canyon Canal
32.55361 -109.76449 to 32.55407 -109.76414
South of Mount Graham possibly prehistoric
      canal currently unexplored.

74. GCC1
Grant Creek Canal
32.59825 -109.96483 to 32.58887 -109.96758
South of Mount Graham historic canal that may or may 
      not have had prehistoric origins.

Unresolved losers here.

These are our latest new bajada prehistoric hanging canal field
notes...

Jernigan Canal field notes & sourcecode
Longview Area field notes & sourcecode
Mud Springs Canal field notes & sourcecode
Riggs Mesa Canal field notes & sourcecode
Tranquility Canal field notes & sourcecode

And some of our previous ones due for updates or revisions...

Bear Springs Canal field notes & sourcecode
Cluffnw Canal field notes & sourcecode
Freeman Canal field notes & sourcecode
Frye Complex field notes & sourcecode
Golf Course Canal field notes & sourcecode
Lefthand Canyon West field notes & sourcecode
Minor Webster Ditch field notes & sourcecode
Sand Canal field notes & sourcecode
Smith Canal field notes & sourcecode
Tugood Canal field notes & sourcecode
Veech Canal field notes & sourcecode

Please let me know about any omissions or typos. To date,
we have SEVENTY FOUR (!) known bajada canals for a
total length rapidly approaching ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY miles! Not counting the ho-hum riverine ones.

And most of these are genuine verified absolutely world class
real. Although we do include some still-work-needed enigmas
and even a very few losers that we want to document just for.

The mystery of the day can be found at...

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=32.88479 -109.88944&z=20
&t=H&marker0=32.88475,109.88960,2.7%20mi
%20SE%20of%20Graham%20County%20AZ

Or is it?

No Photoshop was harmed in the making of this dilemma.

Have added a new set of Mud Springs Field Notes in
our Bajada Hanging Canal series.

Sourcecode is here with additional notes here.

Just posted our Gila Valley Dayhikes entry #500!
With four new or updated things to do.

Thus reaching a millstone of sorts.

Here are four new bajada hanging canal images...

TREE1 - An apparently ordinary wash in the Treeline area.
May or may not be tail water from a historic orchard.
Despite very interesting Acme Mapper images, this
does not seem to be of prehistoric significance. 32.83947
-109.91558

KLON1 - Apparently historic major and likely artesian
derived canal looking west from 32.94232 -109.92201

KLON2 - Apparently historic major and likely artesian
derived canal looking east from 32.94232 -109.92201

KLON3 - The delivery channel from the artesian source
at 32.93793 -109.92633 appears to be a largely unmodified
wash.

Consider...

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=32.94074,109.92773
F &z=15&t=H&marker0=32.94232%2C109.92201
%2C1.8%20mi%20N%20of%20Graham%20County
%20AZ&marker1=32.93793%2C109.92633
%2Cunnamed&marker2=32.94270%2C109.91625
%2C1.8%20mi%20N%20of%20Graham%20County
%20AZ&marker3=32.94513%2C109.91171%2C2.0
%20mi%20N%20of%20Graham%20County
%20AZ&marker4=32.93519%2C109.94137%2C1.9
%20mi%20NW%20of%20Graham%20County
%20AZ&marker5=32.94362%2C109.91245%2C1.9
%20mi%20N%20of%20Graham%20County%20AZ
&marker6=32.94158%2C-109.92112%2Cunnamed
&marker7=32.94109%2C109.92135%2C1.7%20mi
%20N%20of%20Graham%20County%20AZ

Managed to find an apparently historic canal segment routing from
32.94158 -109.92112 to 32.94232 -109.92201. This suggests it
was sourced from a now dry major artesian source or spring at
32.93793 -109.92633 by way of a largely unmodified wash
going through 32.94270 -109.91625 and ultimately apparently
terminating in a stock tank at 32.94232 -109.92201.

Previous discoveries including the Bandelier Canal were located
at 32.94270 -109.91625, 32.94362 -109.91245, and 32.94513 -109.91171.
These speculatively appear related.

This suggests that a major spring or artesian source was present
during prehistoric times, significantly flowing through a natural
wash, possibly all the way to the Gila River.

If so, this could conceivably form the key underlying prototype
that influenced the entire concept of the bajada hanging canals.

While the topo maps report this and a second candidate as
a "gravel pit", site visitation suggests instead a strong
and desperate reworking of a falling water table. A
similar but still wet example appears at 32.90616 -109.85373.

Due to unfavorable topography, no actual links between
the bajada canals and this artesian system appear known.

A newsgroup poster questioned why I had to switch my
membership from the Gurus and Swamis Union local
#415 over to #204.

This had to do with the Godzilla Versus the Night Nurses
cross genre classic. Because of the restraining order
from the Tapioca Pudding Institute, the movie release had
to be pulled and reissued directly to 8-track.

More here.

Just read a fortune cookie:

"Help! I am trapped and being held prisoner in a
Fortune Cookie factory".

At present, we seem to have SEVENTY TWO (!)
prehistoric bajada hanging canal study candidates
that are rapidly approaching ONE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY local miles total.

The vast majority of these are now fully credible to
acceptable scientific standards. But a few others
can still be classified as "enigmas" or "losers".

An enigma is a postulated feature not yet fully
convincingly field verified. We will look at some
of these today.

A loser is one whose field verification failed
to be convincing and deemed of low further
study priority. These are retained in the
field notes to largely prevent them from
attracting further attention. We will look at
some of these tomorrow.

One very significant resolved enigma was
finding canals that clearly include portions
that are built to both prehistoric and historic
standards. Such as here and here. Which
greatly strengthens the premise that virtually
all historic bajada canals were "steal the
plans", "dig out an old ditch", or "borrow
the blueprints" based on prehistoric originals.
To date, no convincing counterexamples have
been provenly verified.

Here are some remaining present enigmas...

FRYE MESA DIVERSION - At present we
have proven watershed crossings here and
here. It would seem both necessary and likely
that Frye Creek water be diverted to the
spring in spring creek via this route. But
field investigation remains needed.

DISCOVERY PARK - Strong hints of a
reasonably sourced and destinated canal
can be found here. But the rather vague
evidence does not yet seem compelling.

LOWER FRYE - What could be a highly
significant hanging portion can be found
here and here. This is exactly where needed
to merge the HS canal with the Freeman
canal, but pre- and post-mesa evidence
remains sorely and significantly lacking.

DEADMAN EAST - This hard-to-visit
area shows a potentially significant canal
on Acme Mapper, but still lacks field
verification.

VEECH CANYON - Despite strong
historic and web evidence of its CNF
existence, this site remains unstudied
and field verified due to heavy brush.

ELSEWHERE IN P RANCH - Hints
of canals of unknown age abound but
remain unproven despite numerous
attempts at field verification.

SPEAR RANCH - Despite numerous and
well studied canals, many additional ones
both here and in the Lamb Tank area
remain apparently unvisited and unverified.

THE UFO FISH FILLETS - Curious anomaly
remains largely of undetermined age and purpose.
Totally inconsistent with both area CCC projects.
and hanging canal architecture and engineering.

A church in Gila Bend has decided not to buy
a chandelier. It seems that no one in the entire
congregation knew how to play one.

Besides being a bear to tune.

Vaguely similar stuff here.

The plot thickens till it clots.

A recent visit to a lower Frye Mesa hanging structure
provided highly mixed evidence that it was or was not
prehistoric and was or was not a canal.

Positive evidence from 32.76746 -109.79293 to
32.76827 -109.79176 includes it being halfway
between the known portions of the HS Canal
which needs a destination and the known parts
of the Freeman canal which needs a source. It
appears too narrow to be a road or even a
wagon road and seems to have no reasonable
anglo purpose. There is no evidence of modern
tool use, metals, or other non-manual excavation.
An exceptional amount of hand labor appeared
to be involved. A downhill branch could credibly
be interpreted as a diversion channel to a
lower field. The uniformly consistent slope
strongly suggests intelligent intentional design.

Negative evidence includes no apparent traces
of water structures approaching on mesa top or
leaving on mesa bottom. Mesa top includes
wider vehicle 2 tracks. There seems to be
no aeolian fill. The structure seems rather
steep and wide for a canal, but seems definitely
in the same league as the HS canal. There
is lower and western evidence of CCC and
historic water activities, but such work is
often more anal and more precisely oriented.
A high upslope wall appears unusual. Some
wall areas would seem exceptionally tall
for a prehistoric structure.

Many dozens of photos are available on
request. And your assistance ( especially
if a professional ) is sorely needed to
gather further info.

A reminder that you can find one each of everything
here. Straight from the horse's whatever.

Here's a good way to celebrate 420.

And here are some predictions on what's gonna
happen when the feds unintended consequence
outrageous mj farm subsidies and price supports
inevitably get eliminated.

More on pv here and energy in general here.

Once again updated and expanded our Gila Valley
Dayhikes library pages. We are now up to 499
major listings, and you are more than welcome to
help us break 500.

Newly added is a Mexican Sushi restaurant,
a surprisingly world class new Willcox indie
style racetrack and secrets of going from Dugas
to Childs the hard way over the Verde Rim.

The latter may or may not provide a river
crossing free route to Verde Hot Springs.

Some lesser known hikes here.

Evidence is slowly accumulating that the "mystery"
to 32.83181 -109.92898 is in fact the brilliant adaptation
of a largely unmodified wash as an essential part of the
canal route.

The run in question looks just like a plain old wash in
a very sandy and largely rock free area. There are no
spoil banks. The route is somewhat less straight
than a manufactured canal segment and there are
hints of braiding and alternate routings. Its slope
appears optimal.

A key observation is this: Most of the routing for
the rest of Sand Canal and the others is along the
HIGHEST local terrain. This particular wash section
is clearly along the LOWEST local terrain. As is
usually the custom with washes.

There is no reasonable doubt that conventional
prehistoric engineering proceeds and follows the
mystery segment.

Possibly credible reasons for the segment are (1)
that it is in exactly the right place at the right time,
(2) A total lack of any rocks in this particularly
during construction is paramount.

Other examples of wash adaption also appear
elsewhere in these local hanging canal systems.

An image of where the canal ducks under a fence
can be found here. It is apparently near the transition
between wash adaption and more conventional
prehistoric engineering.

Wonders never cease.

So long as you never cease to wonder.

A reminder that we now have nearly everything on our
website on a convenient and easily searchable USB.

Nearly two gigs of content. Not available elsewhere.
Full details here.

Did I ever tell you about my PostScript video that
you can find here?

And much more on PostScript here.

Shocking.

I just found out that many of the New Mexico subastas are 
now going to be sold at auction!

Even worse, "slippery slope" issues may also endanger 
a large number of the licitacions and even the almonedas!

Thankfully, eBay sales and shipping to New Mexico aren't 
quite as bad as they used to be. Yeah, there is still the 
language barrier and the hassles at customs.

One main problem was that all of the New Mexico truck 
tires are a different size and spacing, so everything 
needed  reloaded at the border crossings.

Fortunately, there are now REVERSIBLE truck tires that
can simply be insided out at the New Mexico ports of
entry.

More details at your nearest New Mexico embassy.

I still continue to be amazed over the vehemence over which 
early personal hobby computers were attacked by all sides of
society. Or the monumental ridicule that piled up against 
anyone who could possibly be stupid enough to want to
put text on a tv set.

Well, there were a very few of us that realized that something
big and fundamentally different and profound was coming down.

We did not have the faintest clue what it was or where it
possibly could be headed, but there was no doubt in
our minds that it was big and it was real.

For want of a better term, it was known simply as "it".

"It" was hard to exactly quantify, but one of its quintessential 
defining moments that it had arrived had to be when the
Castle Wolfenstein guard opened a door to try and find me.

Managed to verify the central and western branches
of the Sand Canal ( older notes here ). All built as
expected to prehistoric standards.

A photo of the diversion can be seen here and a plot
here. The "headgate" consists of a pile of apparently
carefully selected six inch round rocks. These are
presently set on "center".

The strange and enigmatic "deep vee" constructs
near 32.83163-109.92922 do not extend this far north.
A next goal is to find out exactly where the canal
switches from "enigmatic" to "normal".

Speculative reasons for the unusual segment are
a particularly sandy stretch, CCC involvement,
flood or erosion damage, or an attempt at a
historic rebuild. None of these alternatives
presently seem fully convincing.

Destinations for the center and west branch are
not yet known, but one possible prospect appears
at 32.83527 -109.92542

"Welcome to hell."

"Here is your accordion".

Yorg.

I thought I might have been wrong once, but it turns
out I was mistaken.

THE ACROBAT DISTILLER AND THE ADOBE
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EACH OTHER!

Once you work around some minor gotchas that
include (1) Telling Distiller where to find its fonts,
(2) Nailing down your correct PostScript font
names, and (3) Getting familiar with PostScript.

For (1), go to Distiller Settings-Font Locations and
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For (2), a list of many PostScript font names can
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PostScript font name is to send any short .PDF file
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enter this in any text editor and send it to Distiller.

Much more on PostScript here, here, and here.
Or pick up one each of everything here.

Some food updates: After circling for a landing for
a while, the Mexican Sushi Ono truck has newly
moved into the old Cholos building. And now offers
a full sitdown Japanese menu including Teriyaki,
Sashimi, and Tempura. Ichiban.

The hamburger truck is still wandering and it was last
seen at the Thatcher Laundromat. And sadly, Bricks
seems once again vacant.

Our suggestions for superb eats well worth the
travel includes La Paloma in Solomon,  Toni's Kitchen 
in Thatcher, Juanitas in Pima, the Coronado Vineyard
tapas outside Willcox, and the Jade Grill in Superior. 
Curiously, the original purpose of tapas was to keep
flies from getting  drunk and falling into your wine..

The Sand Canal also seems to have more than its share
of enigmatic mysteries associated with it. At present
the three or more destination fields remain unknown
and at least two of the canals may literally run through
modern homesteads. Historic development might
have been more attractive at level and largely rock
free fields. Some yet to be done landowner contacts
may resolve these issues.

While watershed crossings play an important role in
several other prehistoric bajada hanging canals, no
further evidence of a potential crossover at 32.77757
-109.95573 has yet to be verified beyond its recent
CNF tank rework. Its purpose, if any, would now
clearly seem to be secondary.

The relationship between the Sand Canal and fish
has yet to be explored. A presence of the Gila Longfin Dace was verified at the canyon junction
over a decade ago.

A yet to be checked and possibly related canal
is suggested by Acme Mapper near 32.81481
-109.93940 and 32.81841 -109.93807. It is unclear
what purpose this routing ( if real ) may have had.

A portion of the western branch from 32.82998
-109.92913 to 32.83416 -109.92724 appears quite
atypical, being of a deep vee and spoil bank free
construction. Yet it seems clearly driven from and
drives much more typical prehistoric constructs on
both ends. This section may represent highly
unusual flood damage or unexplained apparently
purposeless historic rework, but remains largely
inconsistent and enigmatic.

Several modern historic artifacts seem to have been
placed along the canal route without any apparent
rhyme or reason. These appear to be inconsistent
with any actual canal use otherwise blocked by a giant
mesquite tree. They also appear to be a mixed lot that
was randomly "store bought" likely far later than the
1920's. The total placement effort would appear to be
consistent with two men and a mule in an afternoon...

A terra cota wash entry pipe at
32.83083 -109.92614

A terra cota wash exit pipe at
32.83098 -109.92606

A railroad tie blocking the western
branch turnoff at 32.82958 -109.93058

A huge concrete pipe just sitting also
near the western branch turnoff at
32.82958 -109.93058

A pair of tiny precast commercial
irrigation headgates at 32.82634 -109.93297

No credible explanation for these artifacts has yet
been put forth. One strange possibility might have
been an attempt to discredit prehistoric origins,
possibly as some sort of Antiquities Act workaround.

      ( Continuing our Sand Canal revelations )

The Sand Canal takein starts at 32.81241 -109.94803,
somewhat below the confluence of normally wet Nuttall
Canyon and usually dry Carter Canyon. And just off
of National Forest lands. As is typical, the "climb" out
of the canyon is classic hanging canal. The prehistoric
stream routing may have been somewhat further east
or "up" in this tilted image.

There is a very strong illusion of "water flows uphill."
In reality, of course, the rate of descent of the terrain
somewhat exceeds the canal slope, creating the brilliantly
engineered disparity.

Once on the mesa per this image and this one at 32.81298
-109.94593 "they" had to deal with an extremely gross
conglomerate that included rocks that were a foot or more
in diameter. It is easy to conclude that "they" must have
really wanted to build this canal in the worst sort of way.

The canal route remains fairly obvious on Acme Mapper to
32.81394 -109.94430 but then tends to vanish, apparently
but still unproven to a projected resumption at 32.81897
-109.94174 and then continuing to a "halfway" fence with
this image and this image at 32.82114 -109.93787.

Minor decorated potsherds were noted in this area but
not in obvious canal association. Few artifacts are normally
directly associated in the hanging canal complex.

The next studied area to the east includes a pair of enigmatic
small and modern headgates at 32.82617 -109.93309. The
western headgate seems to terminate in an unlikely steep
drainage. Its purpose, if any, remains unknown.

The canal continues with typical prehistoric construction and
engineering to its initial split between eastern and western
channels at 32.82953 -109.93062. Also present here is a
largely unexplainable modern railroad tie barrier dam and
a nearby unused huge secondhand precast irrigation pipe.

Of the two branches, the eastern one remains the earliest
and most completely studied. It continues by crossing a ranch
road at 32.82968 -109.92869 and is easily traced and visited,
eventually reaching Sand Wash in an ill-defined and apparently
flood-damaged crossing at 32.83084 -109.92636.

Yet another enigma can be found in the pair of terra cota
pipes historically added to the original canal channel,
once again with unknown purpose and no apparent rational
use found at 32.83096 -109.92607 and 32.83114 -109.92576.

The canal continues by "climbing" a modest hanging portion
at N 32.83137 W 109.9247, going through a construction style
more typical of level terrain here at N32.83149W109.92465,
working past a large mesquite tree midchannel at 32.83150
-109.92477 and ultimately reaching the mesa top via a long,
deep, and highly impressive cut found at 32.83200 -109.92436.

This portion of the canal appears quite suitable for tours,
owing to easy 2WD road and hiker access and its "one
each of everything" sampler potential. Nearly the entire
canal would appear suitable for preservation or even an
actual "wet" restoration.

The route continues somewhat indistinctly to the fence
crossing at 32.83183 -109.92405 that marks the boundary
between AZ state and BLM lands.

North of the fence, the canal seems to switch to a much
smaller construct. As shown by this image and this image
found at 32.83271 -109.92404. Possibly marking the
difference between "delivery" and "end use" portions.
Or otherwise potentially being a pilot water level survey
portion that remained uncompleted.

The canal has not yet been traced through private land
north of 32.83510 -109.92273. It appears to literally route
through the living room of a private residence. There is a
rather significant mesa edge cliff further north.

A case might be made that prehistoric fields would likely
be flatter, smoother, and largely rock free, thus making
them prime targets for historic development. Contacting
private landowners remains an undone priority

Returning to the initial splitting point found at 32.82953
-109.93062, the western branch then does its ranch road
crossing at 32.83025 -109.93016 and next goes through a
highly atypical construct phase from 32.83047 -109.93001
to 32.83331 -109.92788

In this area, the canal presently appears to be of a
deep vee construction lacking noticeable spoil banks.

It is not at all clear whether this was caused by highly
sandy soil, by flood damage, or by inexplicable historic
rework. But this area clearly is preceded and followed
by much more typical prehistoric constructs.

A significant but still unvisited fork can be viewed at
32.83443 -109.92706. Of ongoing interest should be any
diversion or routing means present here.

This image and this image at 32.83473 -109.92653 are
found along the central of the three Sand Canal branches
and are also somewhat small in size, again suggesting as
yet unknown end-use fields nearby to the north.

Cottonwood wash at 32.83706 -109.92901 etc... would
appear to limit further major northward canal routing of
any of the three Sand Canal branches.

An earlier to be updated Sand Canal field log can be
found here and more on the canals in general here. Your
participation is strongly encouraged.

Enough of the Sand Canal has now been field verified
that we can reasonably speculate on its characteristics.

This is the westernmost known of the Bajada Hanging
Canals. It is quite similar in construct to many of the
others in its Northeastern Mount Graham Bajada
complex and reasonably may be dated to the 1350 CE era.

Evidence of prehistoric origins include its apparent extreme
construction efficiency; its apparent meeting of prehistoric
irrigation goals; consistent patina, caliche, and lichens; plus
a huge mesquite tree mid channel; and a self-similarity with
nearby largely origin dated canals.

Its water sources primarily from Nuttall Canyon
and secondarily from Carter Canyon. Fish in the
form of Gila Longfin Dace were observed at the stream
junction two decades ago. The canal has three primary
branches whose destinations remain unknown. But it
seems possible that projected level and largely rock-free
prehistoric fields may have ended up as prime choices
for historic Cottonwood Wash homestead development.

Land ownership is primarily Arizona State with CNF
sourcing. Also involved are BLM and several private
landholders. Most of the route is largely undeveloped
except for the destination areas. The terrain is primarily
open to rather brushy and more or less accessible by
secondary rough ranch roads.

Elevations seem to range from 3500 to 3200 feet with an
average slope approximating 100 feet per mile or just
under two percent.

To date, there are at least 78 canal study areas in the
complex with a total length likely exceeding 130 miles
or over 200 kilometers. Currently explored portions
of the Sand Canal suggest a length exceeding three
miles.

Portions of the route appear viewable on Acme Mapper...

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=32.83275,-109.93353&z=14
&t=H&marker0=32.82121%2C-109.93783%2C6.7%20mi
%20S%20of%20Graham%20County%20AZ
&marker1=32.81661%2C
-109.941842C7.1%20mi%20SxSW%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ&marker2=32.82996%2C
-109.92804%2Cunnamed&marker3=32.83515%2C
-109.92557%2C5.7%20mi%20S%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ&marker4=32.83444%2C
-109.92708%2C5.7%20mi%20S%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ&marker5=32.81239%2C
-109.94778%2C7.4%20mi%20SxSW%20of%20Graham
%20 %20County%20AZ&marker6=32.82959%2C
-109.93056%2C6.1%20mi%20S%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ&marker7=32.83515%2C
-109.92665%2C5.7%20mi%20S%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ&marker8=32.81893%2C
-109.94186%2C6.9%20mi%20SxSW%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ&marker9=32.83266%2C
-109.92406%2Cunnamed&marker10=32.83512%2C
-109.92273%2C5.7%20mi%20S%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ

( continues tomorrow )

Once again updated and expanded our Gila Valley
Dayhikes library pages.

The total number of prehistoric bajada hanging
canal study areas is now up to seventy eight!

While this includes a very few purposely included
losers, there is now no doubt whatsoever that
we are talking a "great heaping bunch" here
that clearly attempted to exploit virtually every
drop of Northeastern Mount Graham stream
water.

The present distance between the currently
bounding Veech Canal and the Sand Canal
is fifteen miles. While we will presently
keep our projected total canal lengths at
130 miles, going beyond 150 appears eminently
possible. And thus well beyond world class.

When aided by historic rebuilds, at least five of these
canals intermittently still flow to this day...

Deadman Canal West
Marijilda Canal
Roper Canal
Ledford Canal
Goat Canal

The point where the Goat Canal sometimes cascades 
off Ledford Mesa seems particularly spectacular.
Its season is usually December through March.

Proof is rapidly accumulating that virtually all
historic bajada canal projects were clearly rework
of prehistoric originals.

It would seem fairly obvious that "digging out an
old ditch" aka "steal the plans" beats "engineering
a new canal from scratch" every time. This becomes
rather obvious when only a portion of the original
is rebuilt to more modern standards.

Evidence of prehistorisity includes being run over
by roads, fences, dams, and even cemeteries;
uniform patina, caliche, and lichens, presence
of slowly germinating and slower growing cacti
or mesquite mid channel, and obvious routing
from a source and to a destination clearly meeting
prehistoric needs.

But the real biggie is that construction reflects
the available tools in use. The prehistoric designs
clearly had energy efficiency as a major goal as
they lacked shovels and mules and such. The
whole point of hanging a canal on the side of a
mesa would appear to be making the slope
independent of terrain. With a secondary goal of
construction being mostly across, rather than along,
the canal route. Thus original designs do appear
clearly minimalist small widths and shallow depths.

With some recent discoveries, I guess I want to revise
my list of high technology in the Gila Valley. Presented
here in order of cubic wonderment....

1. Prehistoric Bajada Hanging Canals.
2. The safford grids
3. Mount Graham International Observatory
4. Mine solvent extraction and electrowinning.
5. The Mount Graham Aerial Tramway
6. The five Morenci Southern Railway Loops
7. The EAC Fab Lab.
8. CCC infiltrating water spreaders.
9. Ubiquitous WiFi web com.
10. The Ash Creek flumes
11. The Emigrant Canyon Marble Quarry
12. The tomato factory
13. Cotton drip Irrigation and real time GPS

More on similar discoveries here. 
And my secrets of technical innovation here.

An extremely interesting history of Southwestern fire
lookout towers and trees appears here. 

I personally worked Gentry, Barfoot, Monte Vista, and 
Miller Peak. And climbed many more. Besides using the 
names of many others in our Marcia Swampfelder spoofs. 

One day an untrained relief lookout worked a neighboring
tower. "Dispatcher Dispatcher there's a fire!". Showing
extreme restraint over blatant radio protocol violations,
Dispatch asks where the fire is.

"Right over there in those trees!".

The similar urban lore tale goes something like this:
A frustrated dispatcher asks "How do you get to the
fire?". With the obvious reply "Sheesh. Big red truck".

An interesting collection of fascinating geology
resources can be found here.

And an Arizona geology map index here, a
Thatcher map here, Safford here, and Artesia
here.

Sadly, the statewide collection remains incomplete.
But they seem to be working on it.

A historic regional groundwater paper is here.

Certainly one of the strangest and most bizarre
entries in our Gila Valley Dayhikes is the
WTF UFO CENTRAL Because it is on posted 
private property and involves a three hour drive, 
I'll  leave this one as an exercise for the serious 
student. Previous arrangements are required 
if you want to ride the underground Area 51 
shuttle.

As will a release form from your therapist. 

Never store carbide in a non-locking carabiner!

And be sure to remember that it is always the
greasy whistle that gets squeaked.

One sneaky trick to make a WWVB self resetting clock
more reliable in bad reception areas is to use a GPS
receiver and make a miniature fake low power WWVB
transmitter. Some details are here and here.

Rebroadcasting, of course, will add some delay. Which
means it is only useful for long correct time displays
but not as a precision instant frequency reference.

Some ancient WWVB stuff here and here, but they basically
dropped the football. Their recent major improvements
seem to have been largely stillborn.

New expansions to our Gila Valley Dayhikes include
the WTF UFO Central, details on mines and caves,
some geology stuff, new fossil papers, land ownership
details, and some impressive 4WD and ATV routes..

Do any of you still have a scannable copy of the UAAC
Songbook?

At present, this document is banned in all civilized nations
of the world. And even in parts of Texas.

If you gotta do something, you gotta do it.

It does not matter in the least if it is an utterly
unprofitable time, energy, and money wasting
rathole.

If you gotta do something, you gotta do it.

If you gotta do something, you gotta do it.

The question came up whether our eBay
image postproc also works on animals.
As in before and after.

All done with plain old Paint and Imageviewer32.

Amazingly, the new Adobe TypeKit works just fine
with plain old Paint.

Details on the secret incantations needed to get
TypeKit compatible with Distiller in general and
with my Bitmap Typewriter. can be found here.

Much more on Postscript here.

The plot thickens until it clots.

The Sand Canal is turning into an extremely interesting one.
It is long, easily reached and explored, mostly excellently
preserved, has at least two significant hanging portions,
and is even a possible restoration candidate. Besides
including at least a sampler of most features on most other
prehistoric hanging bajada canals.

But a real mystery is emerging that does not make
any sense to me at all.

It turns out somebody apparently recently dumped
a pile ( present count six ) of purchased store bought
canal bits and pieces along the canal route in utterly
inexplicable locations. With no sign of them ever
being wet or the canal presently recently functioning.

Two of these are terra cota pipes purportedly flowing
in and out of sand wash itself. One is a railroad tie
size wooden barricade damming the west branch.
Another is a huge concrete pipe drug near but not
on the canal at the west-east fork. And a pair of
precast concrete tiny headgates with metal slides.
At a point where a western diversion seems to make
no sense whatsoever.

The question is why. If it was the start of something,
it seemed to me to be enormously poorly thought out.

Possibly it is some sort of play for a state land permit.
Otherwise, the creators did not seem to me to have
the faintest clue what an irrigation ditch was supposed
to do.

The new hardware could have been installed by
two individuals and a mule on a Tuesday afternoon.
But, if bought new, the costs would have been
several hundred dollars. A not inconsequential
cost by Pima outback standards.

No particular changes seem to have been actually
made to the canal itself. The chosen items also
seem to display a remarkable lack of self-similarity.

It is not clear to me how it could be kiddy play or
an investment scam. The nature of the store
bought products in the Pima outback would seem
to suggest a 1920's or much later date.

While the CCC has proven themselves very good
at stupid, this does not seem to at all match their
usual handiwork. There is evidence elsewhere of
CCC willful destruction of prehistoric artifacts.

It would seem unlikely this could be an attempt
at discrediting the true prehistoric age of the
canal, possibly for Antiquities Act related
reasons. I'll note in passing that mature
Mesquite and Cacti lie mid channel and that
some 75 highly similar and strongly dated
prehistoric bajada canal portions do exist
elsewhere nearby.

Any thoughts on why this is confounding a perfectly
good and very significant prehistoric water project?

Sincerity is everything.

Once you have that faked, all else follows.

Managed to field verify a portion of the Sand Canal near
its "halfway" fence line...

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=32.82265,-109.93663&z=18
&t=H&marker0=32.82126%2C109.93778%2C10.8%20km
%20S%20of%20Graham%20County%20AZ&marker1=32.82300
%2C-109.93620%2C10.6%20km%20S%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ

As with the Deadman Canal and elsewhere, the canal here
traverses the HIGHEST possible available terrain. (!) Strongly
suggesting an intentional goal of maximizing the potential
range and optimizing downslope constructs. It would also
seem highly unlikely that a natural wash would ever select a
consistently similar high ground route.

The canal is shallow at the fence but deepens downstream to
a cut of nearly a meter. There do not seem to be spoil piles
and the canal here seems significantly wider than downstream
Sand portions. Adding to the potential credibility of the possible
largely unproven lower western fork.

As is typical, no associated artifacts were noted, but a pair of
potsherds was in the area but not in direct association.
The sherds were distinct, having a reddish brown slip on
one side and a highly granular"fuzzy" surface on the other.

Several barrel cacti were noted at or near mid channel.
Discrediting enigmatic historical rework from its actual use.

The canal here remains quite distinct but not very photogenic
No further evidence of historic rework was noted. Here are
three images...

SAND15.JPG - Looking east from the "center" fence.
SAND16.JPG - Somewhat further east from the "center" fence.
SAND17.JPG - Looking west from the "center" fence

A very obnoxious and obscene parrot gets put in a freezer
for punishment. On release, parrot profusely apologizes
for errant past behavior and asks....

"May I please inquire what the chicken did?"

How can you tell a prehistoric canal from a wash or a trail?
Here are a group of the typical indicators...

• The slope will be remarkably uniform and very
  near one percent. Without original exceptions.
  
  
• The full original route will be very long, perhaps
  three to five miles on the main delivery channels.
  
  
• The route will be quite linear but not CCC obsessively
  so. It will never be cardinal.
  
  
• Significant mesa edge portions may be "hung".
  
  
• The routing may be along the HIGHEST terrain
  to preserve potential reach and downstream options.
  
  
• There will be a purposeful source and destination.
  
  
• Width will rarely exceed one meter and will never
  be a two track. No horseshoes will be present.
  
  
• Barrel Cacti or mature Mesquite may occasionally
  be present at or near mid channel.
  
  
• Counterflow situations may exist where the
  downstream canal goes INTO the terrain. Especially
  on positioning wash crossings.
  
  
• Spoil banks or other raised terrain may define
  the canal edges.
  
  
• Canal widths will normally be constant and uniform.
  Depths will vary to meet a long term constant slope.
  
  
• Sudden or irrational turns will be very rare.
  
  
• The route may typically transcend terrain types.
  
  
• Both walls will normally be well defined.
  
  
• The terrain will have otherwise seen little historic
  or modern development.
  
  
• The "highest and best" use is as a prehistoric canal.
  
  
• While artifacts near a canal are usually sparse, any
  rare potsherds clearly indicate prehistoric interest.
  
  
• Apparent construction tools will be prehistoric
  compatible. As will apparent construction energy
  and the amount of moved material .
  
  
• Except for "steal the plans", the routing will see little
  or no historic or modern use.
  
  
• Branching will be very rare and well defined.

Did you know that Paul McCartney had a group
before Wings?

Another "missing" 500 feet of the Sand Canal has likely
been located, but it seems to have suffered some major
flood damage.

The Acme Mapper portion looks valid centered on..

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=32.83070,-109.92696&z=19&t=H
&marker0=32.83000%2C109.92754%2C9.7%20km%20S
%20of%20Graham%20County%20AZ&marker1=32.83041
%2C109.92698%2C9.7%20km%20S%20of%20Graham
%20County%20AZ&marker2=32.83079%2C109.92645
%2C9.6%20km%20S%20of%20Graham%20County
%20AZ&marker3=32.83104%2C109.92596%2C9.6
%20km%20S%20of%20Graham%20County%20AZ

and would appear to be the most reasonable way to connect
known validated canal portions. But ground truth only
reveals occasional hints of unnaturally depressed terrain
where the presumed canal route should be.

More on our bajada hanging canals here. Your help in
exploration is welcome.

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