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Also on the bajada study areas are these woefully
under researched areas that likely are "real" but
still remain crucially unresolved...

N 32.74507 W 109.83903 - Frye Creek Watershed
Crossing seems to have only one possible takein
point that would raise serious questions should it
remain unproven.

N 32.78035 W 109.78675 - Golf Course Canal
projected sourcing connection likely from the
HS Canal remains unknown. Possibly this lies
under or is otherwise related to a historic
pipeline route.

N 32.76770 W 109.79213 - Lower Frye Construct
would appear to be part of a 13 mile long canal
system linking Freeman to HS Canal. But it seems
to be lacking two as yet undiscovered major sections.

N 32.83355 W 109.81200 - Mud Springs Canal
lacks its Ash Creek source, likely obliterated by
tropical storm Octave. It also lacks a proven
destination, although the Central Cemetery
would seem possible. Plus a fairly short mid
reach section of difficult access still remains
unexplored.

N 32.83898 W 109.81860 - Central Dump Canal
While potentially impressive, it utterly lacks a
crucial mid section leaving its credibility still
somewhat open. If real, this would strengthen the
premise that the Smith Canal is a partial historic
adaption of a prehistoric original.

N 32.75449 W 109.78161 - Deadman East Canal
has an utterly spectacularly engineered routing
viewed from web resources but remains without
any field verification. It possibly sources Upper
Deadman tank or TB West canal and seems to
be one of the foremost constructs of the entire
bajada canal system.

N 32.75138 W 109.83730 - Upper Frye Mesa
remains open to speculation, despite having
reasonably postulated source and destination
reachers. An adapted Forest Service pipeline
routing may prove informative.

N 32.79352 W 109.72817- Discovery Park Canal
Evidence remains fairly weak with only a short
reach  studied and is in need of further research.
This would  be one of the more northerly routings.

N 32.76764 W 109.73963 - TB West Canal has two
potential sourcing routings from Deadman East and
Rincon Canyon that appear to need resolution.

N 32.76131 W 109.73375 -TB East Canal lacks a
definitive linking to Upper Lebanon. Historic and
modern development makes resolving the exact
route unlikely.

N 32.82220 W 109.77292 - Reay Canal appears
crictically endangered in that it is in the middle
of a housing development. Certain portions do
remain conspicuously absent and its sourcing
from Robinson Canal or Golf Course Canal
remains undetermined.    

N 32.68467 W 109.72937 - A Historic Pipeline
attachment to edge of Goat Canal cliff may or
may not have been used for hydroelectric power
generation. An obvious side project.

N 32.81292 W 109.92311 - the Lamb Tank Canal  
is suggested by satallite imagery but is unexplored.

N 32.55385 W 109.76416 - Short Hog Canyon Canal
remains unproven and unvisited. This is potentially
the southernmost of the Mount Graham canals.

N 32.81438 W 109.97445 - Taylor Canal is associated
with the UFO Fish Fillets and appears as a smaller
and fairly rough construct. It needs further study.

N 32.94154 W 109.92111 - Klondyke Road Area
appears to have a group of prehistoric and larger
likely reworked historic canals likely fed from a
now dry artesian lake. These do seem possibly
unrelated to the Mount Graham bajada canals.
First mentioned by Bandelier.

N 32.74121 W 109.69681 - Jennings Canal West
has been reported by area landowners but remains
to be field verified. It likely would hang on a mesa
and be locally artesian.

N 32.80775 W 110.04887- Tripp Canyon Canal
has only a short portion proven and potentially is
the westernmost Mount Graham bajada canal.
It appears to include a third watershed crossing.
This is another possible Forest Service project.

N 32.64335 W 109.74269 - Veech Canal remains
of difficult access and has not yet been field verified.
Well known and often visited historically. Should be
an excellent Forest Service Project.

We have over 100 bajada study areas, the overwhelming
majority of which are eventually ending up as "real"
canal parts or else seem to be "of a genuinely prehistoric
original source".

But we have also accumulated a small handfull of "losers"
along the way. These should be kept and cataloged so
not too much more mainstream time is spent on them...

N 32.74625 W 109.72715 - Roper Lake Canal likely did
not exist before the 1950's when the park was created.
It conflicts with the Henry's Canal routing, is steep, is
concrete lined, and is partially cardinal.

N 32.83544 W 109.82073 - The Layton Canal sure looks
prehistoric but it has no credible source. It is possibly a
modern road floodwater diversion. Also is very short.

N 32.77764 W 109.95564 - Nuttall Canyon watershed
crossing would be a third spectacular example, except
there is no credible evidence for it having been used.
Except recently by a Forest Service water tank.

N 32.67724 W 109.77496 - Jacobson Fence Lines once
were more suggestive. They do not appear to have been
prehistoric, although major features including Goat
Canal and Ledford Canal can be found downstream.

N 32.82242 W 109.90162 - Old Jeep Trail sure looked
promising on satellite imaging but failed to field verify.

N 32.81653 W 109.84094- Old Wagon Road also was
promising on satellite imaging but failed to field verify.

N 32.77540 W 109.78211 - Horshoe Canal ended up
with a horseshoe in it and was deemed a historic
wagon road. But an obvious intermediate route north
of the Lower Frye Construct still needs located.

N 32.83912 W 109.81549- Strange Construct appears
associated with the Jernigan Canal and even hints of
an aqueduct stream crossing, but likely remains as a
historic enigma.

N 32.74335 W 109.69073 - East of Jennings Cannal
are two short satellite hints that appear to lack a
source or destination. Field visited but presently
believed weak.

Here is yet another stunning but unrelated example
of prehistoric canal engineering.

In this case, it is in South America and they were
using the canals for long term water storage!

More on the bajada canals here, here, here, and here.

We just relisted our stunning Southern Oregon Gold
Hill spectacular view property for sale. 20 acres. Find  
it on Craig's List.

Price has been reduced to $158,000. This is the very
last remaining large developable property immediately
adjacent to the northern Gold Hill city limits.

We have secured a full access easement for these 20
acres. Power and cable are on the property.

Legal description is T36 R3W S16 Tax Lot 400.

Attractive financing is now available. Mid-size city
amenities are twelve minutes away at Medford. The
property borders directly on the town of Gold Hill. The
Rogue River is very close; beaches and mountains
are only an hour away.

Here's a group of photos...

You can click expand these. Then click again.

This steep to sloping parcel is immediately adjacent to
the Gold Hill city limits and offers absolutely outstanding
views. It is in one of the most in-demand rural areas in
the country, and has really great access both to recreation
and to midsize city resources. Plus superb climate, low
crime, and good schools.

Here is a map. Property is the green rectangle "pointed
to" by Thirteenth Street. You can click here for an aerial
photo and flyby.

Contact the owner directly by phoning (928) 428-4073
or don@tinaja.com.

Additional older photos here. More info here and here.
Guided tours can be arranged.

Phased out our whtnu19.shtml blog and started a new
whtnu20.shtml one.

Yeah, we are working on making this much more mobile
friendly. This may take a while. The first three candidates
will be this blog, the homepage, and Gila Hikes.

Meanwhile, much of this "purposely and intentionally
retro" website design works best with larger screens
and is more than likely to stay that way.

So, please use big screens!

Just posted a Dr. Neely paper on the riverine San Jose
Canal. Managed to compact it somewhat.

More on the bajada canals here, here, here, here, and
here.

Similarly, a complete directory of HTML5 commands
along with interactive exercises can be found here.
Again, it almost certainly pays to cycle each and every
entry.

Many of the earlier HTML commands have now gotten
depreciated by CSS and typically will generate errors in
the usual Verify Web resource, along with its Verify CSS
and Verify URL companions.

Among other no-no's are upper case and certain width and
height commands. Even tables are strongly discouraged
with their recommended replacements using newer CSS
techniques.

A complete directory of CSS commands along with
interactive exercises can be found here.

There really aren't than many commands, when you
allow for all the related or "gee whiz" ones.   It
almost certainly pays to cycle each and every entry.

Note that these commands interact with the HTML5
ones and may not be available on older browsers.

We have already seen that there is a sitemap.xml
file that is essential for your website to dramatically
improve your SEO search engine optimization. And
that it has other benefits of finding web errors and
helping your viewers spot your more obscure files.

We also saw that this source is one free to low cost
resource for generating your own greatly improved
sitemap1.pdf "or .xsl eliminator" files.

But there is also a serious downside. There are now
malware services that use your .xml files to "click
here to steal an entire website".

Used even once, this may triple your normal web hits
at questionable benefit to you. Used several times a
day might mightily piss off your ISP. And clearly
consist of a DOS denial of services attack.

There are several workarounds. The simplest is to
block any "steal this site" hits when and where they
show up.

These are obvious whenever your hourly traffic
suddenly goes through the roof. Sourcecode for a
fancier tool can be found here and an example
here. With the rest of the gang here.

Better might be to try and get your ISP to throttle
more than, perhaps 200 immediate hits and then
inserting a few seconds delay per hit after that.

Requiring "steal the plans" permission each time is
a polite solution that ain't likely to happen.

Please let me know any alternative solutions.

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

Stunning breakthroughs in quantum computing
making highly disrupting cryptocurrency value
generation nearly free.

Because of their production similarities between
cotton and marijuana, standardization emerging on
500 pound bales. With partial bales being deemed
"personal use".

A rapidly accelerating rate of conversions of the
few remaining coal fired power plants into singles
bars. As their highest and best use.

Single passenger drones ( possibly tethered ) that
make border fences even more utterly ludicrous.

Dramatic improvements in presently terrible HVAC.
In theory the SEER max is 300 or a COP of 120.

Effective solutions in making older display or print
formatted info becoming much more mobile friendly.

Significant improvements in solid state Peltier-like
cooling, but still restricted to specialty aps.

All hell breaking loose after PV cell pricing having
already blasted through the crucial eight cents per
peak cell watt threshold like it was not even there.

Utter dominance of LED lighting techniques driven
by its outstanding efficiency and design flexibility.
Especially for vehicle headlights.

Hangnails rapidly becoming a qualifying condition
for medical marijuana.

The latest in nootropics going well beyond placebos
and possibly even impacting Alzheimers.

Significant improvements in Google Drive getting
able to not choke on PostScript.

Resolution of open source and creative commons
issues in scholarly publishing, with embargo times
newly a year or less.

Increasing climatic and weather variability, along
with the size and frequency of outrageous fires. All
clearly caused by human activity. As to the deniers,
they better hope and pray that it is human caused,
because otherwise it will be a lot harder to fix.

Imminent elimination of the traditional outrageous
federal farm subsidies and price supports dropping
marijuana pricing into the 59 cents per pound range.
With tax revenue estimates off a tad, but perhaps
only by four or five orders of magnitude.

Several major dental breakthroughs.

Libraries dramatically downscaled or repurposed
based on information no longer needing returned.

The latest update for our Bajada Hanging Canal image
menu is newly available here with its sourcecode here.

Yeah, Its taking a long time, but we probably are halfway
there. More on the canals here, here, here, and here.

A heretical approach to understanding and using field
theory appears as Fun with Fields and More Fun
With Fields.

The technique is so stunningly simple it can even be
used to generate vignettes such as these.

The Curious Saga of the Magic Lamp.

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