The Seven Cities of Cibola

The younger Arnetts won't see anything special about this video, but when you know the history of how Grandpa Howard carved this ranch out of a bonafide wilderness and acknowledge the sweat, work and good times he had with his family at Cibola, it still brings tears to my eyes.

The canal is what Howard dug by himself and where we swam. I was even baptized there.
The canal ran from the head gate at the Colorado River about three miles to the pump from where he irrigated approximately 1000 acres.

There are still BLM administrators that marvel that he was able to get the water in the canal to run uphill from the river to the pump. See Jeff for the details. He is the Cibola historian and has done a great job of chronicling the Arnett history there.