Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-18
FUTURE GREATNESS OF FINAL COUNTY.

or FINAL COUNTY.
 The Arizona Blade, published at Florence, county seat of Pinal coun- ty. is carrying it's head high these days in anticipation of the wonderful agricultural development in that coun- ty. for which it seems every actual condition is most favorable, Says the Blade:
 Five years from this date Pinal county will rank as the richest agri- cultural and mining county in Ari- zona. Her deposits and veins of cop per, gold, silver. lead. iron, zinc. plati- mum and coal. judged from the devel- opmsnts so far completed and the sur face indications. are without equal, while her agricultural and horticultur- al possibilities are simply beyond the reach of all rivals. There are 45,Oo0 acres of patented and 415,O 1000 acres of unpatented government land in this valley that in fertility is not equaled by any other body of land on the face of the earth. It contains no aikali and lies as level as a parlor floor. The eli matic conditions are also perfect. It is 45O feet higher than is the Salt river valley and on a general average the temperature is five degrees cooler in the Summer and five degrees warm CT in the winter than is the tempera- tare of the Salt river valley. Every variety of deciduous, citrous and semi tropic fruit grows and natures here to perfection and ripens about four weeks in advance of the California fruits, hence fruit growers here would get the benefit of the higher prices of the earliest eastern markets. All the cereal crops, alfalfa and every yarie- ty of the vegetable family grow and yield more here successfully than else where on the face of the globe. And we have the best water for irrigation purposes on the face of the earth aside from the Nile and it is equal to that water in enriching chemical con stituents It is rich in phosphates, the greatest of fertilizers and con tains neither alkali nor saline matter, as does the Salt river. We also have two of the greatest reservoir sites in the United States, one of which is 1 now being utilized to some extent, but which admits of an enlargement that will increase its storage capacity by about ten times. It now covers 1700 l acres of ground and can be enlarged I without a very great expenditure to cover over 5000 acres of ground. The other site here referred to is the San Carlos reservoir site. proven by fig ures and surveys of the government | engineers to be the most feasible and perfect storage reservoir site in the west and the one, of all the great res ervoir sites surveyed, involving the least cost of construction. It's water. shed is 17OOO square miles, while that
 of the Tonto reservoir is only 6,O00
 square miles. According to the fig ures of these engineers it would cost
 only $1,02S,000 to build this reservoir
 while, according to the report of Sec
 retary of the Interior Garfield, sub
 mitted to congress last week, the Sal
 river dam has already cost S4,362, ,10t
 and it has not yet grown beyond ths
 surface of the stream. He estimate.
 that it will take s2,0O0.0Oo more tc
 complete it, or that the total cost O
 the dam will be s6,SOO,0OO, but if VI
 may estimate the cost of the uncom pleted work of the dam by the cost 0
 completed portion, s1O,OOO,OOO vii
 come nearer being the total cost. A
 this cost will be assessed upon tn