Arizona republican., 1909-08-09

 ENTERPRISE Marinette Mesa to Be a Fam GUS Fruit Section DAV|E AND ASSOCIATES
Have Well Under Way One of the Largest and Most Promising Projects in These Parts New Fruit Growing Center.

It helps a town amazingly to have a few live ones in it-a few men who
 not only have an inclination to do things and the perception to conceive l them, but who have the resources or the genius for carrying them to sue | cessful issue. What follows is the story of the adding of about 1000 acres l to the irrigable area of this valley, the construction of an irrigation system by private enterprise, separate and apart
 from anything now in operation, and the building of a new town tributary
 to Phoenix. The moving spirit is R. F. Davie, whose operations are financ-
 ed by his immediate associates, and the project is not merely a dream yet to be worked out, but has been under way since February, so quietly that few people have heard about it. Those who have kept their ears to the ground have known for a long time
 that MT Davie was busy, that he was
 matching something, but only those concerned have had knowledge of it's magnitude or importance, for the req
 son that success to this time depended
 more upon action than upon publicity. but now tbot succr is assured there 3 no loi ycrg~ ed O. sec-r
 {. The pro9ose,iacw town is Mariuette,
 .n the S1-ta Fc Tl'lrpad. [ tween the Agua F'ria river and New river, which streams unite a couple of miles south
 of the railroad. The town site is two
 and one-half miles beyond Peoria and
 two and a half miles this side of the
 Santa Fe water tank at Agua Fria and |
 little less than nineteen miles north
 west of Phoenix. Accurately describ-
 ed. the townsite covers 200 acres
 near the center of section r, town
 ship north, range 1 east of the c. &
 s. R. E. S NJ, and it is already platted
 into lots 5Ox14O feet in size and good
 well has been sunk near the railroad
 track to a depth of S2 feet. Water
 was found at 6S feet, but sinking con
 tinued to S2 feet that the supply might
 be inexhaustible and at that depth the
 rush of water drove the men out. The
 well had a pump capable of handling 1000 gallons per day when work was
 stopped and the pump could make no
 impression on the water below its nor mal level. The well is 5X5 and is tim
 bered The town now consists of two fine bungalows made out of mesquite
 brush and wagon sheets, but that is
 joke. The maps for the tOwnsite
 have not yet been filed, though they
 are ready for fl ing, but there is no
 hurry. for the lots are not yet for sale, and there is no intention of starting a
 town until there is something to sup port it. That, however, is worrying lr,p he pf 10 Is
 certain insurance that the town will
 soon become what it is designed to be,
 fruit town, an ideal residence place
 and as near "spotless" town as one
 can conceive where i. is founded and
 maintained on industrial development and is not merely a rich mans play
 thing. Marinette is not new name. A whistling post and a sign board were erected by the railroad company when
 the railroad was built, and it has ever since had a place on the detail map of the company, but that is all it has had, the mere name. It has remained for MT Davie to inject into it the breath of life It has made the initial kick, and ere long will come entirely out of the trance.
 The Marinette Town company owns 200 acres It's future depends on the operations of the Marinette Land and Canal company, which is composed of small coterie of men who are inti- mately associated and have not yet announced the organization of the com pany and it's official roster, but who are content to let Mir. Davie handle the
 strings until the project is a little fur | ther advanced. A part of these men represent 4OOO acres of titled land l around and south of Marinette, owned | by the Southwestern Sugar and Land company, bought with the Glendale | factory and proved up many years ago, when supplied with water by the Ari- zona canal. The remainder of the | acreage is land filed upon June 3 in | the land office by the same and other | gentlemen cooperating with MT. Da' vie in the Marinette Land and Canal company. This land lies north and | east of the Marinette town site and | the holdings described embrace all the | land suitable for irrigation by the pro | posed Marinette canal, which runs down the high line on the mesa be- | tween the mountains on the north, the | Agua F'ria and New rivers on the west
 and east, respectively, and their june
 tion on the south. This section is to
 be known as the Marinette mesa, and is | as distinct from what is now spoken of as the Salt River valley and the Salt river irrigation project, as is Buckeye or Paradise valley, though, like both of them, it is part and parcel of the