Arizona republican., 1898-11-27

tion Of reservoirs. The Indians along
 the GiTai river have always been friend
 ly to the whites, and they must have
 water storage in crdeir to held their
 own. Whatever may be the merits Of
 the case, western people a~s always
 willing to do for tha Indians what they
 would net do for their Clxn sons and
 daughters. It is to be hoped that the
 construction Of he Buttes reservoir
 will not hav- t.. wait 2 great while.
 "In cur own immediate vicinity,
 much money, labor, time and self-sac-
 rifica have been davo,ed to the prelim
 mary work upon the Verde rivcr by
 the Rfc Verde Canal company, and up-
 on Inc Salt river by the Hudson ReEe.-
 voir & Irrigating company. No cn@
 unfamili7r with the mater, can cc1-
 ceive of what it has cost to bring th9ss
 two enterprises to the present stage or
 deyelopment In each case, hundreds
 of thousands cf dollars have been ex- pended of which, thus far, the Salt riv-
 CT valley pecple have received the ben
 eft. Beth are enterprises of supor42- tive merit Frctm the standpoint cf natural conditions, 10th have besn in telligently and conscientiCusly prose cuted. One of the obstacles to he com plation of these eEteIprises hsretCfore, has been the black eye which has been given tcr iTwigaticn invos msnts by So many projects in which either inte-- ligence CT interest have be1n a minus quantity.
 Not wisely conceived and consci- entioI4sIy conducted storage reservoir car be namgd (which has proven fail arc. Many things have to be taken into consideration, one oF which, the abundance Of the water supply stands a. the foundation. Not a dollar should be invested in any enterprise until the of tn water supply has b5en definitely ascertained. On this s-ore there is no question. either uLon the Salt river or Verde.
 '"The true policy of Salt rivcr people, it seems to me, is to give the utmcst loyal support to those people who are using their influence and crcdit in tn matter which stanCs at the foIndaion Of the valleys onlaEg:d prosperity. Where a profit of one dollar accrUes to these directly interested, other pe-ple will make ten dollars as a direct result of the investment. This, in the nature of things, must be 50. There is tendency in Arizona 4o throw cold water upon any effort in which an indi- vidual is nc directly interested. The northwest has been bui.5 up upon a different platform There any public effort has the loyal support and sympathy of the community, and if. is 0 be hoped that a similar sentI- ment will gradually prevail in Ari- Lona"
 MT. J. Ernest Walker is als5 inter ested in the further development of the valley. ''When we consider what has been done here," said he. without water storage, but simply depending ol tho discharge If water from the noun tain rivers and streams, wha5 would be he result if we had been favored with an abundance Of water? The pr0duc- ton of this valley under thsse uafav- orable conditions has attracted the attention of the entire country. With water stCra ge, yCu cannot cCnc9iV7 me that will come. Phoenix, which has made such rapid prCgrss5 with the irrigation of t1is little patch of land about it on all sid5s, will be- come a city Of greas importance, and the metropolis Of one cf the richest farmingi districts in the world. We have extended our productiveness to he full sccpa our water supply will al cM The lands under GU tivatiOn are but g small portion Cf what they are capa5ie Of doing with lots Of watsr, and fer miles there is good land which must remain dormant until the water problem is properly consummat- d. It is a proposition which the people of this valley are directly interested ia, md they should lend their encourage nent to the people who are trying to attain water storage fer them
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