The Arizona sentinel., 1905-03-08
A NEW EGYPT ON
 TIE AMERICAN NILE
Wonderful Possibilities Of the Co.,
 0radG Rivaf Region.
BY GEORGE H. MAXWET.L.
Mid Winter Edition Los Angeles Times:l

have their eyes turned toward national irrigation as our great est resource for the expansion of our internal trade, and to the Orient as the greatest possibility for the expansion of our foreign trade.
 Itis to the people themselves that we must look for wise sO- lution of the many problems to be solved; in order that we may as nation enjoy to the fullest extent the great results to be ob- tained from national policy which will develop to the utmost the irrigation of our arid lands, and the extension of our Oriental trade.
 Iu the past, we have, as a peo- pie been too prone to imagine that the people themselves need do nothing but vote for some political party, or some candid date for office, and ''let it go at that" leaving to our law makers the solution of all such problems.
 Problems of Internal Develop ment. Whatever may have been the condition in the past, noth- ing is more certain than that the right progress of our country to- day demands that the great ma iOrity of our citizens shall be close students of these intricate problems of internal develop ment and foreign trade, so that the action of our legislative bod lies will be merely reflection or disqualification of an understand ing of the subject and common conclusion already reached by 1, the majority of the people them selves, aS the result of their own thought and knowledge. If the inauguration of a nation al irrigation policy had been left to the lawmakers of the country { assem bled i'll our national Legis Elatare, nothing would have been done. It was not until a great educational campaign among the people themselves was inaugur: ated and carried forward to a sue ceSSful conclusion that the peo- pie were assured of the great national benefits certain to flow from the reclamation and settle ment of the arid lands of the country, through the construc- tion of great irrigation works by the national government. Even yet there are comparatively few of the people who realize the gi- gantic possibilities of agricultur al production and wealth that lie latent in our desert, because the water that would irrigate them continue to run to waste into the sea.
 Need of an educational campa- ign. It is the very magnitude of these possibilities that pre- vents a clear conception of them getting into the public mind. And right here lies the necessity for a continuance of the educati- onal campaign which has brought us so far on the road to an actu- i, al realization of the possibilities of national irrigation. When we undertake to give figures of these possibilities they are almost in comprehensive to the average mind.
 Look at the Colorado River!
 There is little doubt that the eventual future that would util- ize to the fullest possible extent every acre-foot of water flowing to the sea through this great river estimating the lands irl'iga- ble through return seepage as we'll as the original flow, would bring under. irrigation and i'm | tenSiye cultivation by a dense population more than 5000, ,000 acres of land.
 This land is to-day a desolate, dreary and uniDhabitable waste. l If reclaimed and irrigated, close fly settled and intensively culti- vated, it would yield an annual product of from S100 to $500, and even as. high as S1, GOO per .acre.
 Possibilities of the American i Nile. There Is no instance of high intensive culture and 8 high acreage product which cat l be found anywhere in California or in the world that cannot be reproduce3 in the Valley Of the Colorado River.
 Take the average Of the annu al production of this 5, GOO, GOO