Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-29
Phenix Herald.

eye Canal to Cover 15O,OOO Acres of
 Land.
 Phenix Herald
 The Denver parties who, with Judge | Platt Rogers and Chief Engineer Don aid G. Campbell recently visited Phe- nix and the Buckeye Canal country, were wonderfully impressed with the | great future of this entire region of county.
 A Republican reporter secured most enthusiastic interview with Engi- neer Campbell, who said:
 PHENIx FRUIT ACTIVITY.
 "Judge Platt Rogers and I went down to Arizona a few weeks ago to look after the interests of a Denver man in an irrigating enterprise to be inaugu- rated west of Phenix, which you know is the capital of the Territory and IS situated south of the center of the Territory. Now, around Phenix there are from 60,000 to 10000 acres of land which has been reclaimed by the waters of the Arizona Canal. This canal takes it's water from the Salt River, twenty-six miles east of Phenix, and has turned the dryest, most arid, undesirable and uninvit- ing desert in the United States into a garden spot. A rapid growth of that part of the country as water is put over 1t Is inevitable, and a very desir- able class of settlers are now occupy ing the land. They are mostly fruit growers from Southern California, who are attaining perfection of fruit culture that will shortly be the won- der of the United States. Beside the ordinary farm products, large orchards of figs, oranges, raisin grapes, apricots, olives and all the semi-tropical fruits, have been set out, and the returns from these crops, even at this early day, are so large that the fact is giv- ing an air of liveliness around Phenix that would be impossible to be devel- oped by ordinary farm products. 4 MARKET FOR COLORADO PRODUCTS.
 This, you see, before long will be t great market for farm product ts, coal etc. as the residents of that sectie
 will cultivtae nothing but fruits of all kinds, as considerably more can be realized therefrom than from the ordinary products of the farm
 "They have an immensity of water as compared with the fruit-growine country of Southern California, and a
 great number of the settlers are Den
 yer people, whose sympathies and
 ties still remain with their friends in
 this city, and it behooves the mer
 chants of Denver to watch the pro
 gress of this country more especially
 in the matter of perfecting the line' : of communication
 THE COLORADO ROAD TO REACH IT. "The Colorado Canyon Railroad in which cause Frank M. Brown o Denver lost his life while surveyin, through the Canyon of the Colorad river, last season, and which MT. Stan ! ton and his party have so recentl ! completed, will, if built, give direc communication to this valuable sec :, tion of the Western country. "Mr. Rogers and l." continued MI Campbell, fare connected with an CT
 terprise to furnish water for trac
 of land covering upwards of 15000
 acres west of the Gila river, and tn , headgates of the canal will be abou :. twenty-two miles west of Phenix." .'Will the Colorado Canyon railroad I if completed, touch this newly mad ;. section of ArizonaW interrupted tn ,, reporter.
 5 "Yes, the Colorado Canyon railroa , as now surveyed, would run throug U this magnificent body of land to tn south and west of Grand Junction ', and afford a means of conveyin coal and farm products to both Ar zona and Southern California, wher all kinds of farm produce is vel , high. If the road is completed, v will afford a means of transportin . . Colorado coal to Southern Californi v where that staple article brings tf 's enormous price of $14 per ton" r. TWO GREAT PROJECTS. e "Then you think the building a the proposed railroad through Il i Colorado Canyon would, beside ma al ing the most direct route to the coas Opch up OAAC Ol tllC lllOob OColl dD l fruit-growing countries in the Unite n States?" interposed the reporter. |e 'I most certainly do," answered M ,t Campbell, enthusiastically. "I thin is the two, building of the railroad an
 these irrigating canals, will be the mo
 grandly successful ever undertake
 in the Western country"
 BIG DENVER MONEY IN THE PROJECT. if "Are you at liberty to divulge Il r names of the Denver parties interestt 5 in the enterprise with which M II Rogers and yourself are connected .t asked the scribe
 if "No, am not, at present, aithoug 70 70 I will enlighten you this much: TT II II company for which we are working = = composed of Denver's most prom al nent capitalists and business me z and I have every reason to belle If they will push the work as rapidly o o possible"