Williams news., 1903-08-15
HIS DREAM LIES
 YET IN ARIZONA
PeraIta Reavis Out With Another Gigantic Proposition and Has
 Great Faith of Success.

Cl d llGL leSoNlS, loiiOoS III SOii nection with the lost Spanish land grant of 5O,OOO,OOO acres in Arizona and New Mexico, is in Denver with a new plan for making a fortune, says the Denver Post. Reavis is 60 years old. His hair is as white as snow. His eyes flash with the hope of his new plan, which shall make him worth $S,OOO,OOO. and then he will retire to devote him. self to rearing his twin boys.
 Reavis has been the familiar friend of millionaires. He has travelled abroad and met kings and queens. All his old cronies are dead except two. He was the inti- mate friend of c. P. Huntington, of John w. Mackay, of Senator George Hearst, and all are dead.
 Two of that band of millionaires who were interested in the Peralta land grant are still living. Reavis is now on his way east to lay his last great scheme before them and divide the millions. It is his last stand. The genius which has made him the promoter of gigantic enter prises has gathered itself together out of life hampered somewhat by ill health and has centered upon the idea that which Reavis now carries east to lay before his friends.
 The idea which is to make Reavis a millionaire in his old age is the control and distribution of the un- derhow water on the Gila and Salt rivers in Arizona. It is a relic of the old land grant. When Reavis was investigating the grant in 1885 he stood at the Gila buttes and with a prophetic eye saw quarter of century ahead when the whole country should be populous and productive by means of the distri- button of water for irrigating pur- poses.
 Reavis will build dams across and under the river and will make this underfow rise and will sell it to the farmers of Arizona. At two points it is 1000 cubic feet per sec ond and will irrigate 75O,OOO acres of land. The original water right was sold at $1O an acre, which will bring in $7,5OO,0OO. Then the an nual water rent will be $1 an acre, which will make an annual income of $75O,OOO. There are two of these places so that will be total an- nual income of $1, 100000. This is not reckoning on the $15,OOO,0O0 for the ori ginal water rights, for that will be used up in building the two dams. Reavis will only get half of the annual income of $1, 100000.
 The Bisbee Miner puts the popu- lation of Cananea at 6OOO-only a small matter of over 5000 short. The Cananea Consolidated Copper Company Gust one company alone operating here), has over 4OOO peo- pie in its employ. The Miner should guess again.-Cananea Herald.
 The spindle shanked, one lung specimen of Gods carelessness that thinks he is editing the "Wicken- burg Martinez Congress Junction and elsewhere Herald?" may get himself disliked if he continues his slick and slimy utterances about his betters. The editor of the Dem ocrat does not know this thing that seems to be the spawn of wasted humanity, but will wager that someone spit him up against a granite powder in some secret place, where the jaybirds matched him out. He writes of decent jour- nalism in that fitting piece of pa per that he daubs his gall onto once a week and tries to tell old and tried journalists how Sunday paper should be conducted .-Democrat.