Arizona republican., 1908-05-28
OPENING OF TOWNSHIP
 A MATTtR OF INTEREST
Mir. korrick Says Parker Country Has All the Symptoms of Healthy Growth.

Charles Korrick of the New York store returned yesterday from a busi- ness trip to Parker and adjacent min | ing districts, very enthusiastic over ! the prospects and future outlook for | that rich section which has been ! brought into prominence by the ad- vent of the A. and c. and the early | completion of the fine steel bridge at Parker. MT. Korrick said that the
 bridge was a magnificent structure.
 beautiful to gaze upon. The cement work was finished on Tuesday at four
 in the afternoon and all of the con
 crete men have left. The work being
 done is now on the last span of the
 bridge. the piers being all finished and nothing remains but the raising of the
 steel superstructure which is being
 pushed rapidly.
 This last span he thought would be finished in less than thirty days and the bridge be ready for service. Many heavy cars and engines have been on
 the bridge and the track is connected to the California side of the river The Colorado is now rising but the
 bridge is at a stage where the big stream will do no harm and before the floods come, it is probable the sounds of the last hammers of the builders will have died away
 Parker itself is booming in a quiet but very noticeable degree. The Par ker Commercial company is preparing to increase it's stock adding several new departments and lines getting ready for the general increase in pop ulation. mining activity and the in flux of trade which gradual develop ment will bring. C. w Mckee is per sonally in charge of the store and will remain there all summer and later be joined by his family. Greatest inter est attaches to the opening of the town site and everyone is looking for ward to this event with the hopeful feeling of the born optimist
 Just when this will take place is not now definitely known, but the sale of lots may be inaugurated any day The Indian agent was sometime ago ordered to map out the tOwnsite, and he has sent those prints to Washing ton and as soon as they are approved 1t is likely that the date of the open ing will be named. There is consid- erable navigation on the river and the company which has been formed to operate boats on the Colorado will in a few months have a number plying from Yuma and mining camps up the river and between mining camps above and below Parker which will be the distributing point. Mir Korrick while there took a steamboat ride up the river. There is considerable farm ing and MT. Ross who is the farmer for the Indian reservation said that they expected to cut at least seven crops of alfalfa this year They were at work cutting Tuesday. Water can be obtained at forty feet in depth from wells, and there is a basin on the Colorado which MT. Korrick said of fered possibilities for water storage to irrigate over 100000 acres of very fer tile land
 Quiet sales will describe what is doing in mining lines. A number have been consummated lately, of which but but little mention has been made. These sales run all the way from SS5,OOO to $150,000 most of them cold cash propositions. There is much stir in the Bill Williams country and in the Carrigan district and around Quartzsite and Salome Telephone lines will soon be one of the facilities enjoyed by number of the camps in the country tributary to Parker, sev- eral camps are now installing phones and others will before the summer is past Prospectors and mining men from Colorado and other states are numerous in that section. MT. Kor- rick says he believes that Parker las | the country back of 1t and the mak | ing of city of importance in a few years or soon after the A and c. is | connected up with the coast cities. | Parker will be division point a rail- road town, mining town, an agricuI- tural town and a sort of inland port | for ships that will pause and pass both | day and night.