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Arizona republican., 1908-06-21
A City Founded On
A Great Natural Cistern
OpuIent In Mineral Resources With An
EhaustIess Water Supply.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY FITz-MAc)

This city of Salome, in the desert of
northern Yuma county, has a larger
and surer natural water supply than
any other center of enterprise in Ari-
IONA.
This statement is, 1 think, suscepti-
BILE of a mathematical demonstration.
Any geologist with half an eye can see
on the spot that it must be true-not
that l have any reason to suspect
that any geologist with jas much as
half an eye has ever looked over the
situation and pronounced an opinion
upon the case.
The supply is practically limitless,
not for agricultural uses-certainly not
but for domestic and milling pur-
poses.
The little city of Salome-very little,
indeed, as yet-rests upon a great
natural cistern about fifteen miles in
width by forty miles or more in
length and having a depth that prob
ably varies from 500 to 1900 feet.
OF course, that great space is not
all filled by water. At least three
quarters of it is certainly filled with
rock debris from the adjoining noun
tains.
The valley in which Salome is To-
Gated lies between the Harqua Hala
and the Harcuvar ranges. These are
parallel, about fifteen miles apart, and
have nearly east-west course. Their
altitude, l would guess, averages about
1000 feet above the present surface
Of the valley and probably 5000 above
the geological bottom of the valley.
These two ranges are perfect types of
anticlinal mountains, consequently the
valley between them is a perfect type
of the synclinal valley.
A syncline is a U-shaped figure.
Such figure becomes a basin and
will hold water if it is closed at both
ends, and the Salome valley is thus
closed. 1t has a gentle slope toward
the west and would drain into the
Colorado river if it were not closed.
But it is closed completely by the
Granite Wash range at the west end.
up to a level about 100 feet higher
than the present level of the valley.
1t is opened, however, to the south
ward by sink in the Harqua Hala
Arizona republican., 1908-06-21

above its mouth, opened the ball for
not actually the first copper mine
opened in Arizona. The Ajo mine,
down near the Mexican frontier in
western Pima county, had been opened
by the Arizona Copper company of
San Francisco in 1855, but though it
contained some very rich copper, it
appears not to have made much of
a record The Planet, however, came
to the front in 1854 with large bodies
of rich copper ore and created a great
impulse for copper throughout the ter
ritory, because copper at that time
was on the boom bigger than ever, be-
fore or since The price of the fin
ished metal was SO cents a pound that
year, and Arizona had a real "spelr'
for copper. PYospectors remembered
scores of places where they had seen
the blossom" in all parts of the ter
ritory and they made a rush for them
as soon as the success of the Planet
was demonstrated. 1t was easy for
the moment, to enlist money for pros
pect work. But the price of the metal
! fell so fast and so far from 1865 on
that AriZona's first great copper eX-
citment was quickly stretched on the
cooling board. The Planet itself sunk
into an unhonored 4 obscurity from
which it is only now beginning to
emerge l have never seen it, but it
appears from description to have the
ear marks of a very great mine.
Then came the squirt at Signal, on
the Big Sandy, and the great Nc
Cracker silver mine. a little north,
with its record of millions.
The Vulture, discovered in 1863, has
gold record of sixteen millions.
The famous Harqua Hala, nine
miles south of Salome, has a gold rec
ord of six millions.
The Colorado King, to the south
west a gold record of several millions.
Enough has been proved to show
that it is a great mineral country
great in gold, great in silver and great
in copper
And Salome is the natural center of
it all and has-as l have shown
prospects nearby in the Harqua Hala
and the Harcuvar ranges and the
Granite Wash and the Plomosas and
the Eagle Tails all of which will be
naturally tributary to her as trade
and shipping and milling center, being
on the railroad and possessing illimit
able water which the kind winds of
the desert will lift for her from the
deep, broad cistern while she swings
in her shaded hammock, eating the
luscious watermelons that grow in her
gardens.
Mines Enumerated.
The mines of the south side of the
Harqua Hala range, accessible to Sa
lone through Harrisburg pass. are
the Bancroft, the Sunset, the Noun
tain Chief, the Yuma, the Mineral
Hill, the Mineral Belt. the Socorro. the
Golden Eagle, and last and greatest of
all, the famous old Harqua Hala, still
pushing ahead to double her great
record.
! The Del Monte property, very eX-
tensive holding promoted by Senator
Dorsey, lies on top of the low range
between the Harqua Hala and Salome
On the north side of the same
range are the Du Shay, the Savers,
the Geer. the Gensing, the Scales, and
the San Marcus. The latter has been
! quietly developed within the last three
years into a mine of great value. 1t
Continued on page 10)
Arizona republican., 1908-06-21

range at Harrisburg pass, seven miles
south of Salome, to a depth of about
100 feet below the present level of
the valley, and a cOpious flow of
water occurs at the Harrisburg outlet,
just below the surface.
Harrisburg pass has been known for
fifty years to travellers in the desert
as a safe and sure water point.
There is reason to believe that Har-
risburg pass has sunk in compare
lively recent geological times and that
it is still sinking slowly and draining
the valley to lower levels. The earlier
outlet was westward through Granite
Wash pass the head of which is some
thing more than 100 feet higher than
Harrisburg pass, and the water was
once up to that level, which is nearly
the present surface-level of the valley.
That may have been, about 10000
years ago. In another 10000 years
the valley is very likely to be drained
to a depth of 100 feet below its pres
ent level. Then Salome will have to
pull stakes or get more powerful
pumps. At present she has to raise
her water 12O feet, which is about
the level of the basins rim at Harris
burg pass. Windmills are used to
raise the water.
Water may be found by driving
wells anywhere eastward in the Sa-
lone valley below the level of the
underground rim of the basin at Har-
risburg.
All this is perfectly self evident
when you understand it. AS a general
geological statement, it is unquestion-
able. But it is a general statement
only. and takes no account of local
conditions in spots throughout the
valley. Dry wells here and there will
not disprove this general statement
intelligently considered-not at all.
The subject ought to be studied and
record made of the study at public
expense for the development of the
territory's mineral resources.
SaIome, the Mecca.
This inexhaustible resource of water
is bound to make Salome the indus
trial Mecca of the desert 1t is bound
to make it in time a comfortable and
even a delightful place of habitation.
Arizona republican., 1908-06-21

1t is bound, 1 think, to make it the
center of great mining enterprises
over an area greater than the state of
constitute one of the richest mineral
regions of the west.
1 am more or less familiar with
nearly all the great mining districts
between Cananea, in Mexico, and the
arctic circle, and l have nowhere been
more favorably impressed with the
natural mineral conditions than in
this country surrounding Salome.
Arizona leads the world in mineral
production and in a general way 1 am
pretty familiar with Arizona, yet in
the still but partially developed dis
tricts of Arizona 1 have seen nothing
that impresses me more favorably
than this Salome country except the
vast copper deposits of the London
range near the ella river in the ex-
IRENE southern part of ella county.
Those sare very great-one may fairly
say, stupendous-but these of north
ern Yuma county. the country natu-
rally tributary to this sure and in
exhaustible water supply in the Sa-
ly less rich.
There Is certainly enough water in
this great natural cistern to water
all the live stock and supply all the
ore mills in Arizona. But it has to
be pumped. For domestic and stock
supply, windmills will do the pump
ing, but for the steady supply of ore
mills power will have to be used.
The chief consideration is that the
supply is reliable and inexhaustible.
The cost of piping water long dis
tances in this region where it never
freezes is comparatively cheap. The
pipes do not have to be buried.
The famous Harqua Hala gold mine
pumps all the water for its forty
stamps mill in surface pipes from the
rim of the cistern at Harrisburg six
miles away. The water is reached at
that point twenty feet beneath the
surface, and its outward underground
flow from the cistern through the pass
is clearly discernible in the well. The
Socorro mine, when in operation, OBJ
tanned it's milling water from the same
place, and the San Marcus mine, five
miles south of Wenden, on the rail-
road, is now putting a twenty-stamp
mill at the mine on the north flank
of the Harqua Hala range and will
pump its water from the cistern-that
is to say, from the valley below the
mine.
Record of Great Mines.
This northern Yuma country region,
or, as 1t was called in the early days,
1.-The Bill Williams country" has an
early record of great mines that would
be hard to beat in any country, but
the conditions were then so hard that
only big bonanzas could be worked.
From 1859 to 1864 the dry placers
near the Colorado river were the scene
of great activity and produced about
a million and a half a year by dry
washing" Ehrenburg was then the
largest center of population in Ari-
iona and was the government supply
station for the military posts through
out all northern and western Arizona.
In 1863 the discovery of the great
Yulture gold mine near the Hasa
yan1pa river drew off the placering
population and Wickenburg became
for time the chief center of popula-
ton. About the same time the de-
velopment of the great Planet mine
on the Bill Williams, twelve miles
Arizona republican., 1908-06-21
SaIome, the Mecca.

This inexhaustible resource of water
is bound to make Salome the indus
trial Mecca of the desert. 1t is bound
to make it in time a comfortable and
even a delightful place of habitation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08
RritaIn and Germanx.

The German population is Increasing
by 100000 a year; the British by S00,-
OUO; our own by more than 100000.
Germany is now gaining more by Inn
migration than she loses by en1tgra-
tion; the reverse is true OF Great Brit
There are $4,000. 100000 in German
savings banks and $1,000, 100000 in
British savings banks.
Gefmany's great new battleships o.
the Dreadnought type cannot safely
pass from the North Sea to the Baltic.
She is charging the KEEL Canal TO pass
10000 ton ships. Great Britain feels
that she must build two Dreadnoughts
to Germany's one. This means ex-
tremely heavy taxation.
Germany has made great strides IN
satisfying the workingman by atten-
tion to old-age insurance, by insistenee
upon safe machinery in factories. BY
humane provisions for pensioning the
victims OF Industrial accidents and the
ke Great Britain, like the United
States. is at the beginning Of this great
The Polish problem is not an impe-
rial one to Germany; IL concerns only
the kingdom OF Prussia. The Irish
problem in Great Britain is an imperial
Germany has few colonies to embar.
raas her in war or in peace. Great
Britain's greatest colony (India) Is
stirring with revolt It is beginning TO
demand seIf-rule as a matter OF prin-
cIple, which candid Englishmen cannot
deny. They can only denv that India
Ia Mt for self-rule now.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08
IN Is PUZZLED.

The esteemed Charlotte Observer is
obfusticated. or something equally as
bad. and doesn't mind admitting 1t.
without comment. We give its re-
marks. as part Of current comment on
e, ents as they occur. "Since there
WIRE three or four things that Solo
mon could not understand" says The
Observer, 1--WE are not ashamed to ad-
NIT that many pass our compreh ension.
One is the announcement by Mr.. John
Sharp williams that he favors the
nomination OF Mr.. Bryan. Tuesday he
dramatically waved bill in his hand
and announced that he hoped it would
be signed by President Bryan. Is this
the man who so dashingly led the anti
Bryan forces in the st. Louis conven-
ton In 1904 and called forth thunder
Gus applause by his periods in praise
Of Cleveland? Is this the man whose
speech before the Legislature of Mis-
sissippi q few days ago sounded such
q clarion note for rally about the prin-
ciples Of Jefferson? Is this the man
who announced that Individual indi-
viduality" is the fundamental dogma
of his political creedP
What has brought about this change
Of heart? The man who fought so
heroieally the free silver heresy in
1904 and Government ownership in
1905. proclaims his allegiance to the
arch hereto. If tried by Mr.. wilIiams's
political creed. This passes concep-
tion. 1t cannot be explained by the
fact that the nomination of Bryan
seems certain; for that fact would not
make him right and men who do not
believe in his doctrines could at least
keep quiet There IS no reason
for their loud profession Of faith
in the Bryan program. Some
mysterious spell is at work. Some
body must be carrying q rabbits foot.
Leaders in washington had made up
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08
a1ara and Ita cli1nate.


In his recent lecture in London Sir
David gill presented certain facts
which bear on the perennial question
VI the habitability OF Mars III the
planet has Inhabitants in whom we
could feel Interest. 1t would seem that
pnere, moisture and temperature not
wholly unlike those Of the earth. AS
respects atmosphere Sir David finds
that Mars has very little, II one may
stars disappear when oceulted by IL !.
Traces OF aqueous vapor have been de-
tected. as also q trffiing amount OF
cloud. It follows that the climate Of
atmosphere helps TO keep us warm,
Mars, on the other hand, not only has
u much rarer atmosphere. but also re-
cefves less heat from the sun, being
dence OF the cold is seen in the snow-
caps at the poles Of Mars-supposed by
some to consist Of frozen carbonic acid.
AS this constituent of our atmosphere
below zero, its solid condition in Mars
seems 70 indicate a climate which
makes life, as we know ii, impossible
there. As for the canals" OF Mars.
it is pointed out that the word canal,
used by Schiaparelli, means not canals,
but channels, or hollows. The transla-
ton OF the word canal by canals nat
VI aAly leu pSOplO ~ 6SbuIu0 the eXlGL-
ance of inhabitants to make them. AS
the best telescope would not show q
canal less than twenty miles wide, Il is
evident that the people OF Mars, II they
exist and dig canals like these water
ways, abnormally large. The Panama
Canal. which consumes the resources of
a nation of s6,000,000 people. Is nothing
In comparison~with the alleged system
OF the Martians. The doubling Of lines
seen by Schiaparelli and Lowell, Sir
David believes to be merely the double
image seen by the eye when strained to
see something invisible, Disproof OF
the existence OF canals would not prove.
the non-existence OF living creatures of
some sort in Mars, however improba-
BILE their existence may be.
Excepting Mercury, Mars is the
smallest Of the primary planets. and It's
mean distance from the sun Is 141, 00O.-
900 miles. II rotates on its own axis In
q little over twenty-four hours and cir
cles the sun In two years. lacking for
ty-one and a half days. In 1877 its
two moons were discovered. and Il is
remarkable that Swift IN "Gulliver's
Travels credited their discovery to the
people of Laputa and gave their pc
RODS OF revolution-30 and 1-2 hours
respectively--with practical accuracy.
The inner moon, which revolves about
the planet in seven and one-half hours,
moves faster than Mars himself. with
the result that II rises In the west and
sets in the east. 1t is supposed to be
"a bit Of cosmic matter" or meteor
which Mars has picked up by it's at
traction and converted into satellite.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08

On Thursday Of last week, the chap
lain Of the House OF Representatives
used the following language in his
opening prayer:
Good Lord. deliver us, we beseech
thee, from the lingo. the demagogue,
the bigot, and all other undesirable
citizens. and give us instead the pa
triot. the statesman. the bToad-minded,
generous-hearted. manly man.
Congressman Fitzgerald of New
York, after hearing Roosevelt's latest
screed, remarked that somebody gave
the chaplain the wrong tip on the day
before. Hs said the prayer should
have gone >Ons with the message to
have been really effective. We suspect
that after reading that deliverance of
Roosevelt's. the chaplain decided that
at least one Of his prayers had not
been answered. Perhaps he will post
himself better in future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08
This IL My 63rd Birthday
Rear Admiral Mead.

Rear Admiral William w. Mead. u. s.
February 8. is45. His active career in
the navy began In 1855. in which year
he graduated from the Annapolis Acad-
envy. During the forty years that fol-
lowed, or until his retirement from ac-
tive service year ago. Admiral Mead
did duty in many parts OF the world
While lieutenant he took part in the
capture Of the Corean forts, command
ing the light artillery that was landed
ish the fortihcations. During the lat.
ter part OF the war with Spain he COM
manded the U. S. s. Machias. In 1909
Admiral Mead was a member OF the
Naval Board Of Inspection, and during
the next two years was commandant
Of the naval training station at New
port. At the time of his retirement he
was commandant OF the Portsmouth
navy yard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08
Our orEaninea MllItLn.

According to reports now before the
delegates to the tenth annual confer
ence of tn National Guard Associa-
ton of the United States. the organiz.
272 men. New York, with I4T50.
stands at the head of the Staes for
strength. with Pennsylvania. with a
roster. Of @,791. second. New Mexico
and Oklahoma. with 7S5 in the Ma
tional Guard. Is ahead of Colorado
Della ware, Idaho Mourt ana, North IA,
irg. Illinois is credited with e7I7
ard Ohio with 6,314 men. The ernount
Appropriated last year by the varions
States for the raintenance of the or.
which sum New York was the Isrgsst
contributor. with $3.50 600 ana SsoS
Mexico the smallest, with $4,000.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08

The Washington correspondent OF
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has discov-
cred that w. r. Hearst is preparing to
throw Q monkey wrench into the
wheels OF party politics that win re-
voive next summer and fall. His plan.
It il said. is TO hold an Independence
League National Convention in Indian
apoiis between the dates of the Repub-
lican and Democratic conventions and
have himself nominated for President.
With the prestige Of this nomination.
Il y alleged. he viii endeavor to brow
beat the Democratic convention and
take the nomination away from Mr..
Bryan. The Plain Dealer correspon-
dent advises everybody against re-
garding Hearst as political joke, ana
ventures the prediction that he will
make q lot of trouble for somebody be-
fore next November.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08
Foolish democrats.

nashville American.
Why should Democrats be shouting
hosannas because Of Roosevelt's latest
message? Are they anxious to take
credit, or. rather. discredit, for the
present condition OF the country?
We fail to see any political ADVANTAGE
TO come from an Endorsement, or even
quasi Endorsement, Of the declarations
ana platitudes of the Rough Rider
president. Much more capital is to be
made out of the Administrations mis-
takes, and especially iRooseveIt's war
on capital. If Mr.. Roosevelt Is going
be set up as the Democratic leader;
II his policies are to be applauded as
Democratic. what hope is there for
Democratic success? The Democratic
party should fight its battles under
its own leaders, and II those leaders
are as radical and as unsafe as
Roosevelt they had best be set aside
FOR leaders OF more balance and more
1t IS true the party is in a bad way.
but II Will not improve its situation
by throwing up its hat every time
Roosevelt uses his big stick. It has
more to gain by standing up for the
Constitution and equal and exact Jus
tice to all men, Sans culottism, social
ism and other dangerous isns will
never bring victory to it's banner. and
exponent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08
SATURDAY. rEBHUARY 8, tsOs.
some days ago this dispatch appeared
n tha daily preas OF the country:

IN the daily press Of the country;
~For three months Max Saclxman. 90
years old. and BY trade a paper-hanger,
had tramped the streets In futile az
tempt to find work. His daily goings
and comings were noted by the neigh
bors, who. when the man failed 70 APP
pear as usual today forced an entrance
three dead. The bodies Of SaclEmap
and his wife. Goetltns were stretched
upon their bed and In the arms OF the
the l4-months-oId baby, Rose. A gas
tube, extended from a chandelier to the
bed. told the manner Of death. and an
empty cupboad explained the motive.
This did not take place in Africa. or
ether heather land. but. as The Char
iotte Observer remarks. "in New York
city. where there is more civilization
20 the square inch, New Workers will
tell you. than in any municipality on
earth. The daily goings and COM
ings' Of this unfortunate, you will
observe. 'were noted by the neighbors."
but the dear, charitable neighbors
didn't interest themselves until one day
when he failed to "go and come" and
then. out of idle curiosity. likely. they
forced an entrance and saw the climax
Of the tragedy. Why, in Gods name
did the interested neighbors wait until
hope had flown; until the wolf. Hunger.
had fastened its fangs in the threats
Of this man. the girl-wife and the In
nocent babe, before they took the
trouble to investigate? why need we
pray, yet awhile. for missionaries for
the Jungies?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-08
ReIt Made of 22S steer Hide..

Seattle Post-IntelligenceF.
Washington States boasts the larg.
est leather belt ever made in the world.
The hides OF q herd of 225 steers were
required to furnish the material from
which the big endless belt was built,
Only the centers Of the hides were
used. and each of these was stretched
for weeks to insure perfectly even
strength in all parts Of the proposed
belt. The belt is ia feet long, s feet
wide, and three-ply thick. The weigh
II the belt is something more than g.
500 pounds.
Not a peg. rivet. or fastening of any
kind was used to weld the pieces Of
hide together. The best quality of ce-
the hides overlap welded by the weight
~ hydraulic press bearing ESQ pounds
pressure to the square foot. The big
belt has just been installed In the new