The Arizona sentinel., 1890-06-07
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mine and near the new Placer mines at Mejor mountain on Hardy's Color ado. Ool. Allen is, and has been the land inspector of the Iuternationa Company of Mexico ever since it be gan it's operations Iii Lower California. In his work for the company, in in specting its lands and other interests, he has travelled over l5.000 miles, eX- amining in detail each valley, mesa, canon, range of mountains, estimating the acreage of each: examining ano testing the soil, taking samples fo' assay, visiting all of the springs, creeks, wells, tanks and holes of water, taking observations, heights and dis tances of waters for irrigation, making maps of the whole, in tact, gathering every fact of interest for the lnforma- tion of the company. Bred farmer and specially adapted for this work, his labor in Lower California has beeu an important one. A resident of that territory for nearly twelve years, ia miliar with the people and their Ian guage and habits, he has found his work a most pleasant and agreeable one.
 Last September the company sent him south to spend the winter in his work, beginning at the company's south line, degree 28 h. lat. When he reached Rosario near San Fernando, the company recalled him, on an order from London to send him to the Desert Region of the Colorado to ex- plore this interesting section. In Oc- tober he began hIs work and i'll De- cember reached Campo with his party ready for the winters work. Since that time he has been constantly on the go, examining in detail each sec tion of the great valley lying between the Colorado river and the Sierra Madre range of mountains. He has travelled over 4,000 miles on his mul.s and on foot wherever the trail was lm possible for his saddle animals While Col. Allen prefers to give his report to his company before 1t is made public, still he is free to say that he believes that there is a great future for the 6oforeae- River Nalley. As eo tl,, railroad, he says, q cannot reveal any secrets of my company nor it's plans. but the railroad will be built, If not by one compauy then it will be built by another. Capitalists are ready with the money to develop thlS great region, and it will be done, and that too, not in the far distant future. It IS Iuma's back country and your town has much to hope and gain from thIs hitherto supposed desert region" Col Allen has travelled over every foot of New river from it's head to the Colorado river, as well as up and down its various branches, the lower part having been explored in boat tie has visited and examined the great saltpetre beds, salt deposits, mineral springs, the curious and won- derful hot water, sCeam, mud, sul phur aud other volcanos of the desert, of which he estimates that there are not less than 5000 of them. The sulphur regions are wonderful. While noth- ing has as yet been done in the devel- opment of the mineral resources or this vast region, he believes that 1t has an important future. The subject of irrl- gation, artesian wells, reservoirs and preserves for water have received his careful attention and his views will probably be made pubic by his com- pauy in due time. He has carefully mapped the whole region, noting care fully every road, tral, old and new, every sprIug or tank of water, the places where grass or other feed can be found for animals, and, in fact, every item of interest. The Interna- tional Company will have this map engraved and put on sale for the bub- lie. It will be a great help to those who wish to visit any portion of this hitherto almost unknown region.
 Col. Allen has been assisted in his work until April by Engineer D. c. Mendenhall and P c. Wright, formerly of the N. W. Short Line. Prof. c. R. Orcutt, the botanist, was one of the party for awhile. Sickness in his family recalled Engineer Mendenhall. and other duties sent home Wright and Orcutt. Since April Col. Allen has done his work alone General Mananer Snntt nf the International