Arizona republican., 1906-09-15
For Delegate to Congress Wm. r. Cooper
LOOKING FORWARD.

The speech of J. J. Hill, the railroad magnate, at the recent Minnesota fair has served a most excellent purpose, for it has set people to thinking. Not that his ideas are entirely new and certainly they are not novel, but the sstterances were the words of man who commands attention. Though he stated facts that students and scien- tific men have given the world before, his personality and the occasion on which he spoke gives these facts a wide publicity.
 MT. Hills warning in some respects is needIessly alarming but in the main he calls attention to subjects that should be given more thought followed by suitable action. Few people are fear full that this country will be unable to support it's population for many gener- ations to come, if ever though all will readily admit that it cannot do so without some changes in it's industrial life, and MT. Hills address vii do much toward stimulating these changes as they shall become necessary.
 1t goes without saying that when the population of the country becomes five times as great, if the same quantity of coal, per capita, is required for it's business, it is very likely coal will become a scarce article, even with the vast, inestimable supply of it now available. Even in these days a little coal is able to develop a great deal of power by electricity and in other ways. and electric power is being developed amazingly by water power. Only a start has been made in this direction The country is full of small streams that will some day be furnishing power; streams that at present are never considered in connection with such purposes. Denatured alcohol prom ises much in the same line and un- doubtedly as necessity suggests it there will be numerous other discoveries, in ventions or improved applications that will further supply fuel requirements.
 Similar facts may well be applied to many other lines of thought suggested by MT. Hills speech the text of which. undoubtedly for the mere purpose oi q that necessities would increase with out compensating increase of faciIi- ties. His strong point, however, was calling attention to a necessity that is already here, and that, it may happily be said, is being met That is. more intensive cultivation of the soil, a more economic use of natural resources. IL has been demonstrated that a compe- tent farmer in these days by properly eultiVating and caring for a iifty-acre farm, can make more money than can De made on a hundred acres by old fashioned methods That is being Illustrated everywhere in good farm ing countries and particularly in this valley. George H. Maxwell for in stance, is engaged in the experiment. Of trying to make five acres support a family or at least furnish a home and a large measure of it's support. This idea is good one and will be further developed as the days go by. There are no doubt large farms in this valley. the odd and neglected corners of any one of which if utilized. would support a family National irrigation is the greatest promoter of this most impor- tant line of development and though it's eastern critics are not vet convinced of the wisdom of the policy it will be proved to the entire country in inc very, near future,