The Arizona sentinel., 1904-06-01
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS
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 all mankind. The facts are, that after careful investigations the engineers reported that it was feasible to irrigate in Arizona and California vast area of one million two hundred thousand acres: that California is today support ing one person to every seventynine- hundredths of an acre of irrigated land they reported upon the same area in Arizona possible population of one million five hundred thousand; in other words. we will be able to support 8 greater population than either one of 3 states of the Union, and probably not exceeded by either one of 20 states.
 The government On the 20th of last October, through Engineer Perkins, filed an appropriation of water from the Colorado of 100000 cubic feet per second. This was claimed in the name of the United States of America. Now, when this filing was made, something IIdDI)cDCds IC SO-SdllCt IIlElIClS n T. gation bill was introduced, and for the first time Monopoly stood face to face with the United States of America, and the friends of irrigation realized that they must buckle on their ;srmOr and fight another battle for Arid America. There was the California Development Company's bill, which, together with the Daniels bill, is dead and buried. What did we ask for this river? We asked that Uncle Sam shall have free hand on those waters from the Yellowstone Park to the Mexican line. 1 believe in the freedom of the white man, just as Abraham Lincoln did in the free dom of the black man. 1 am happy to say that we did not have to fight that battle long: the administra- tion stood like a hero. We asked the interior depai tment whether the Cali fornia Development Company or any other person had a legal right to the waters of the Colorado: to which the interior department replied: Appar- ently there are and can be no laws in force in the state of California or any other state which do not give congress exclusive jurisdiction over navigable streams.
 As rode upon yoar beautiful mesa yesterday thought Of the splendid op- portunities of that and the surrounding lands, and I prophesied that 8 part if not all of it would be irrigated in time, and by the national irrigation system.
 want to tell you a little story about Mir. Lippincott: Mrs. Lip pincott told it to me herself, coafden- tially.) One day Mir. Lippincott went home and told Mrs. l.. what he intend- ed to do. She showed plainly that she was disappointed, as wives are some times disappointed. He bowed his head, then standing up he said: ''Jo- sephiHe, 1 would rather build dam on the Colorado river and make it stick than to do anything else in the world. :" Well, he is going to build that dam and promise you that it will stick.
 Mir Lippincott is an enthusiast on national irrigation, and especially as to the opportunities for great engineer ing possibilities presented here. He gave up q lucrative private business to enter the government reclamation ser vice at much less remuneration. to sat isfy his ambition in this direction.
 Mr. Smythe continued:
 Now, there are two things to be done. First, that you sign up at least fifteen thousand acres more tonight before you go to bed; and, second, that you favor complete national control Of the river.
 At the close of few remarks by Mr. Winsor the meeting adjourned. At once there was grand rush of land owners to the ante room to follow Mr. Smythe's injunction to ''sign up." Twenty thousand acres had been pledged during the day and 15,G00 acres were added that night. Since then the acreage signed up has increased the total to over 40,00uacres. The amount yet to be pledged is about 10000 acres, and it will all soon be in the fold.