Arizona republican., 1908-01-16
THE BUCKEYE COUNTRY
 TOURED BY VISITORS
They Agreed on One Thing that There Are Few Regions Like 1t.

iHcy HgTcec on One fnih9 that heTe
 Are Few Regions Like 1t.
 Buckeye, Jan. 15. Special Corres- pOndence to The Republican).-The panying a party of eastern farmers on a tour of inspection of the fine farms, the cattle and the horses, and visiting with several of the ranchers at their farms under the Buckeye Canal last Saturday. The party was made up at Phoenix, Thursday, and was composed of MT. Glass of eastern Kansas, MT. Layne and Mir. Layne Jr. from west central Kansas and MT. Trout from the San Joaquin valley, California. Mir. Trout is a Missourian and has resided in California only a few years but has visited Arizona once before for his health since living in California and has now decided to buy a home in some part of the valley so he can enjoy Arizona health giving climate continuously.
 The party started out bright and early Friday morning and were driven directly to the head of the Buckeye Canal, IS miles south west of Phoenix, this was done to show our Missouri friend and the others of the party that We do have water at Buckeye and have it as represented, a continuous flow
 into the canal all of the time. there
 is no other canal here to rotate water
 with, the flow is never cut off for any reason except to clean or repair the canal. About one and a half hours was spent at this stop. The team was fed and the members of the party in- spected the dam and headgate, watch ing the large volume of water rushing through the gates into the canal. The visitors commented on the value of so large and continuous a stream of
 water for irrigation purposes, it was very soon agreed that it was worth a price almost beyond reckoning. After finishing a lunch the party proceeded
 down the canal to the division gates
 where the water is divided between the west and south arms of the canal one of the party said there seemed to be more water here than at the head of the canal as there are two canals brim full at this point. Liberty was
 reached about five o'clock in the eve
 ming and everybody was satisfied to rest over night. The party was divid-
 ed here between two ranch homes where they had been invited to spend
 what time was possible while in the neighborhood, Saturday morning the drive over the valley was continued. From Liberty store we went three quarters of a mile west thence south ! to where the work of reopening and extending the south branch of the canal is in progress and nearly com pleted. The members of the party were quick to see the advantage of this work as it means the delivery of
 water right onto the farms of many who in the past have had to keep up
 private "burrow" ditches of a mile or more in length. The visitors also said the work showed good business as all such works of improvements
 not only gave better accommodations to the farmers along it's length, but add ed dollars to every persons property 1 in the community. From the work at this point We went west and passed through a strip of virgin country where mesquite trees stand as nature made them to grow This land is somewhat rough and salt can be seen cropping out in many places. The mistakes of nature will soon be cor rected in this small area as it is fast
 being conquered by the man with the "irrigating shoveT' and the stream of water that overfiows. This rough land has been a blessing to many, as they could get a foot hold in the country
 ny taking a piece of it when 1t would
 have been a more costly deal to have
 secured improved property. And this in few years will be made as good as any that is now in cultivation. here
 was a fine place for a stranger to see how the desert" is reclaimed Land
 was just being plowed. some was in first crop and other fields were cov- cred with fat cattle grazing from pas
 lures that had been established for a considerable time Our little town of Buckeye was reached about noon, here We again lunched and proceeded then to the ranch of w. B. Long. where we were shown the fine imported Per cheron stallion and many very fine colts. MT Gass was able 10 assist Mir. Long in answering horse" questions as he has been extensively engaged in horse raising on his farm in Kansas.
 The trip was continued south and west to J. R. Gibsons' ranch. From here we drove east along the bank of the canal to the west line of the Wes- sex Co.'S place and then east. making our last stop before reaching our starting point, at s. P. Waynes' home. for the purpose of inspecting the finely