Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-29
Industrial PrOgress.

assessed for more than a third of its value yet the rolls for this year will show nearly $30,000,000. The barri- CTS which for generation closed our doors to immigration and capital have been removed, and brains, brawn and money is coming to us to assist in developing the latent industries which will, in few years, make us rich and powerful state. Mines are being opened, canals are being dug, water storage companies are being con constructed and railroad system is being perfected that will soon, by giv- ing cheap transportion, create ready markets for our aoal, lumber, copper, agricultural and horticultural pro ducts.
 In five years time thousands of acres in Yavapai and Apache, now used for grazing will be utilized by the. thrifty husoandman. Where practic- able, artesian wells will give the fluid that invests the arid plains with fertile v,gor of restored productiveness. T e pose indicated in the original resolu- ton. The house cut the appropria- tion down to $l00,000, and refused to consent to an increase. To-day the senate conferees agreed to accept the house amendment, and the appropria- ton will be $100,000.
 Prof. Powell director of the geOlog- ical survey, states that he will put four surveying parties in the field at once to begin the examination of the arid regions. In this connection NIT. Powell says;
 "It is undoubtedly true that the greater the delay in the selection of areas for irrigation the greater will be the knowledge which can be brought to bear in making wise selections; but it is also true that the greater the de- lay the more complex becomes the practical problem by reason of the in reference of vested rights. The ditti- culties arising from vested rights far outweigh, in my judgment, all con sideration in favor of delay, and there is even ground for regret that such surveys and selections as are now pro- posed were not instituted atan earlier stage in the development of the arid regions"
 The four surveying parties will therefore, begin immediate operations. One will go into Colorado, working in the valleys of both the Arkansas and the Platte, a second one will explore the Walker River valley in Nevada, a l third will examine the regions of the upper Rio Grande and it's tributaries in New Mexico the fourth party will make preliminary surveys in Arizona along the Gila and Colorado rivers. The surveys will be continued so far as the limited appropriation will allow, but it is stated that if the results prove satisfactory congress will not allow so important a work to stop for want of funds. The advocates ofirrigation are exceedingly well pleased at the pros pect.
 It seems from the following, copied from the Magdalena Mail, that other prospectors claim to have struck the Adams diggings. Charles Bottoms prospector may be one of the number ::
 "A party of fifteen men arrived here from Socorro the other day, on their way to the Adams diggings', which they think have been found to the northwest of this place somewhere in the Navajo country They went from here to Patterson's, and then, with Patterson as guide they will go to the diggings. Frank W Evans, George Christelaw and Mir. Barker went with the company. Patterson, who has spent several years in search of the Adams diggings, thinks he has them located at last, although Ee was not allowed to enter the canyon where he believes the placers to be, that Adams and his companions found, on account of the Indians forbidding him leaving the main trail. The deep box canyon with the round mountains at its head and general appearance of the sur roundings are just as Adams described them to be-"