Arizona republican., 1903-10-02
SEEN IN A SUMNER
Return of Dr. Duffield After an Ab-
 sence of Four Months.

attend the reunion of his class of the 1 University of Pennsylvania after which he made a short visit to Chicago and then returned cast to attend the meeting of the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine at Saratoga, N. Y. Hav- ing transacted other business which called him to that part of the country. | pr. Duffield spent three weeks at the summer home of MT. l.. T. Howes at | Dennis, Mass, on Cape Cod bay. l He next visited New York where he met most O; the members of the Ar- zona colony among whom were Col. w. P. Harlow, Charles R. Drake formerly of Tuc.on and George Becbe. All of them have grown rich. They are bring l ing most successfully to the notice of the investing public the Cieneguita and Yaqui river properties in Sonora.
 It was during the stay of pr. DufIield i'll New York that a telegram signed by Dr. J. M. Ford who was then in the city was received at this office describ- ing the visit of pr. Duffield, W. C. Foster P. A. Tharaldson and other Phoenicians to Coney Island and con- taining the statement that in conse- qucnce of their presence the police of that pleasure resort were mere than usually active and alert.
 | That telegram tte doctor says was base and damaging islander. He was at no time at Coney Island nor were the other gentlemen mentioned in the telegram. On that particular night ! they went in body to see "The Earl of Pawtucket which was being played by D'Olsay. The slandered gentlemen are all at home now impa tiently await ing the return of Dr. Ford.
 
 MT. and Mrs. Vaudeville at Clean, N 1., and then he went to Pittsburg and made q tour O: the oil regions He found that much of their pristine glory had departed, but there is still much of interest there for ore who is curious to sec the birth place of an industry which in little more than a genera tion has grown to be the greatest the : world ever heard of.
 The doctor then returned to Chicago . and while there he was overwhelmed with letters and telegrams urging him to go to the national irriga tion con- gross a Ogden. He understood at the time, or rather he imagined that the Tonto Basin dam had been put in seri- ous jeopardy and he believed that he was needed to pull victory out of the very jaws of defeat
 He was both surprised and disap- pointed when, on his arrival in Utah, he learned that he was not expected to have much to do with the delibera- tons of the congress. He was appoint ed to take charge of certain unruly youth, moderate their spirits as much as possible and keep them cut oi d part of the mischief which Satan was find ing for them to do. They were Walter | W.a1+ T1l , w. H. Wallace, Vernon l.. Clark and H. l. Latham.
 The task of Dr. Duffield was heart
 breaking. The subject of irriga tior
 from the beginning had presented nc
 such puzzling problem to any of its
 advocates. The official guardian ol
 these ebullient spirits, doing the best . he could, could not keep the names o his charges out of the papers and some
 of them actually printed the pictures
 oi MT. Fowler and Mr. Wallace One night a a public ball he caught . MT. Clark in the very act of dancing with the most beautiful girl in the
 state of Utah. When the congress wa:
 over and none of the delegates had tn
 shadow of an excuse for remaining any
 longer in Ogden. Messrs. Clark ant
 Latham promised the doctor mos
 solemnly that they would return tc
 Phoenix. He was afterward pained tc
 learn that they fingered somewhere fol more than a week. He has lost al l track of MT. Fowler though he say. l. that he has iheard that he is m Chicag g, making some arrangement for tn, 3 building of a road from Phoenix to the 1 Tonto Basin dam.
 Regarding the building of the dam
 the doctor repeats what had been give.
 out before as inside information thar
 there is no earthly doubt of the build l, ing of it. Though no order has yet
 been signed, the delay in making the
 contract is not in any way delaying
 the work. The government is already doing all it could do if it had bound | itself to the Water Users associa tfor by dozen contracts.
 From the congress the doctor went to Denver and Colorado Springs. He l also visited the famous Poudre River 7 valley which he says is the most beau tiful agricultural region he ever saw . It is mere beautiful indeed than tht Great Salt Lake valley though it is not ? so large. It Is divided into two parts I great harvest field and great gar.
 den. Every fruit that can be growI l in the temperate zone is found there t in abundance. Wheat and oats run 6t , bushels to the acre and the alfalfa l stacks are more frequent than they are in the Salt River valley in the mos favored years. All this is the, resul : of a perfect irrigation system. Ther, $ are numerous small reservoirs whict catch the rains of winter and tn, . melting snow. Only three irrigatons ! are needed and they are supplied by r the reservoirs. One can see. says thr
 doctor. in the valley of the Pcudrc . what the Salt River valley will b.
 when the Tonto Basin dam is built. Q Dr. Duffiaid took great interest II l the beet sugar operations in this val = ley. elsewhere in Colorado and in tht
 Salt Lake valley.
 But" said he. while waiting fo1
 the dam there is much that we can dt f and if it is lot done before, which WI
 will have to do later when we will no r. have so much leisure. We can beautif, . the city and make it attractive to tho
 visitor Shade trees might be set out 6 They will grow into beauty Withou