The Arizona sentinel., 1905-03-08
4 NEW EGYPT ON
 TIE AMERICAN NILE
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its junction with the Colorado, it would reclaim chain of irri- gated oases and valleys if its flood waters were stored in sue ceSsian of reservoirs existing on the Gila tnl its tributaries in both New Mexico and Arizona. Add to this irrigable area what can be reclaimed from the Salt and Verde rivers and their trib- utarieS, and we have more land capable of reclamation than Is needed to bring the aggregate Of lands reclaimable from Colorado River and its tributaries up to the entire cultivable area of Egypt
 Let it not be for a moment un- derstood that these tremendous results can be obtained by any such slipshod and unstable schemes of development as those which lave prevailed in the Inn perial country, in the New River Valley, in San Diego county Cal ifornia. It would serve no good purpose at this time to point out the vital weaknesses of that scheme. It is enough to say that the resources of the Cobra do River can never be utilized to their full extent and capacity un- less the entire control of the river and it's tributaries is aSsum- ed and retained by national gov ernment. The irrigation system of the whole Colorado River Val ley, from the point where the river emerges from the canon un- til it crosses into Mexico, must be treated as one great system, under government control and management.
 One Great Irrigation System. It must be planned from the start and developed as one great system, and all the money that is necessary to be expendee to acquire such private rights as might complicate the constrnc- ton of such a great comprehen- siye government system, and to survey and lay out that system as an entirety at the beginning, and then to build it afterward. should be forthcoming just as rapidly as it can be judlciously expended in the construction ot the works.
 It is nothing less than national stupidity to sacrifice any part ot the future possibilities of this great source of national wealth. population and prosperity, by niggardly economy either 1T framing the plans or building the works.
 No matter what the eXac' area that can be reclaimed may be, no matter what the exact cos of its reclamation may be, it is a safe and conservative estimate that the lands reclaimed will yield each year and every year for all the years to come, tota annual product exceeding thu total cost of all the irrigation works, provided common sens' Is used in planning the project and the areas to be cultivated b. each settler are limited in acre age to the amount necessary fo the comfortable support of fam fly or that rich and fertile lanC under that semi-tropical sun where every product which cal be grown in Egypt or Southerl California can be grown to per lection.
 Intensive Cultivation with Re elamation. on.-What can be don in the eastern part of the Unite, States in hot-houSes can b9 don in the open fields with better re suits, acre for acre, ia the Col erado River Valley, if the subdi vision of the land into smai farms, is,enforced, as a conditio of it's reclamation, and the sci tiers are trained to the righ methods of intensive cultivatio to insure the success of thei labors.-
 Education in intensive cultiv1 tion by the government must g hand in hand with the goVerl ment treclamation of the Golorad