Arizona republican., 1905-03-19

nix. We have waited years for this | time when water could be assured and i now that the time is but two short | years off we can scare realize that 1t is here. I believe in Phoenix and | think that this city will be a center | of importance before many years elapse."
 MT. Pratt of the Pratt Gilbert com | pany in speaking of the prospects to be looked forward to in the completion of the reservoir, remarked: What I consider the most important feature of the whole affair is the surety it makes for investors. For years we have had to trust to the rains for our main tenance; if none fell there was a drouth. Water is essential for the prosperity of the country and with it there is security for the investor. The TOnto reservoir provides this se curity and for that reason Phoenix will no longer be a place for specula- tton but where money may be invested with absolute safety"
 MT Diamond of the Boston store remarked: "We are all happy over the outlook. Business will be rushing next fall and winter or I am a poor proph- et When the outside world realizes the possibilities for investment in this valley no one can keep them out"
 MT. Goodman of the Goodman Drug store says: With the money that will be expended in the erection of the dam and the water insured at the comple- tion of the work. means better times than Phoenix has even known before"
 R. H. Greene, the real estate man, said Now we have obtained what We want, our next business is to advertise the fact. I think that steps should be taken at once to have the board of trade or the business men of Phoenix send a man to represent the interests of Phoenix at Los Angeles. We should get out illustrated booklets telling the people of the east and west what we have here. T. for one, am willing to give twenty-five or fifty dol lars toward keeping representative of the Phoenix board of trade in the city of Los Angeles to there circulate literature and tell the tourists who come to California of the prospects in Arizona and the Salt River valley"
 H. l. Latham, another real estate man, said: "I wonder that at the time the news was received in Phoenix that the contract for the building of the TOnto dam had been awarded that there was rot a demonstration of some kind and martial music. Such news meaning so much to a town is seldom heard. and the importance Of it cannot be thought about too seriously. The government has seen fit to make the city of Phoenix the first place in the United States to receive the benefit of its great irrigation schemes. The time is fast approaching when our fondest hopes for this city are to be realized" :" Walter Talbot in speaking Of the growth Of the town said: 'I believe that Phoenix will double her popula- tion within the next three years. The influx until the completion of the dam will be steady and after it's completion it is probable that there will be a grand rush. I look for brighter times in this city in the next few years than she has ever known before"
 Dr. Hubbard in speaking of the pros poets before the city Of Phoenix, said: There are three great reasons why Phoenix is bound to come to the front within the next few years. The pres ent rains. more abundant than I have known them in seventeen years. give us bright hopes The completion of the great reservoir and dam means a permanent water supply and the build ing of a main line railroad through Phoenix will bring thousands of visi- tors here who will ultimately become permanent residents"
 A. Goldberg of Goldberg Brothers, is q firm believer in the city of Phoenix and the Salt River valley. "The pres ent rains" said Mir. Goldberg, have
 shown what water can do If we have ] enough of it. With the TOnto reservoir in operation another rain of this kind
 would not go by unused. With tine
 dam complete we would not be incOn-
 Venicnced to such an extent by floods
 The mountain floods would go to fill
 our artificial lake"
 Vernon L. Clark said: 'T desire tC
 compliment the engineers in charge oi
 the work on the Tonto project upon tho thoroughness with which they have at
 tended to every detail. While the work
 has not been delayed. sufficient time has been taken in every instance tc
 insure no mistakes. The work if com pleted in two years means much to the
 ranchers of this valley and the impor- tance of the project can not be dwell upon too much or too strongly"
 l.. LaChance of the WalSelin coInpa- ny thinks that the building of the dan will double the business of every mer- chant in the city. 'I know that th' work already done,r said MT La Chance, has helped business in thi city and will continue to do SO I'm benefits to be derived from the dam art too numerous to mention and as for m I am ready to stay with Phoenix"
 Charles Korrick Of the New Yorl store thinks that Phoenix and tn Salt River valley property will sool be iH great demand and predicts great increase in the business Of thi city before the coming summer ha passed.
 Barry Goldwater of Goldwater Bros said: Phoenix has always proved it self to be a good town but with a per manent water supply it is bound t double it's population and prosperity. MT. Cooper of Cooper & Blacks stor in reply to the question of what ar < the possibilities of Phoenix, respond ed: q believe that the people do nc q begin to re1lize the benefits which wi Fl 1pcY1,es tp this 1-1IlpX on ac~n-rr1f pF tn