Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
ISAAC CHRlSMAN ON THE
ROOF OF ARIZONA

miles over rocks, roots and mud,
brought us to the quiet little town of
Flagstaff (not Mormon) the highest
point of TIE Santa Fe railroad in cross
ing the continental divide. ?.
Here | found the ladies everything
that could be desired--both beautiful
and kind, and the men in their bust
ness relations as cold as their climate
My journey ending and turning my
back TO toe city at the foot of the San
Francisco mountains, $4,000 feet high,
| journeyed back, and after five days
of mountain descending and crossing
the Tonic between floods, we (Jack,
Jill and u campei over night on the
northern banks once more. of the
RooSevekian sea. where the sea
breezes tempered the tropical shores.
In the morning we arrived at the
boat landing. jack and Jill took hcei
of former troubles and consented to
give up, not the "ghOst," but to the
ingenuity of man, and as we were be-
ing waited over the bosom of the sea.
it was reminder to me that | was
fast mooEing my bark across the Hv,
ing waters of life and ere long must
OF necessity reach the farthcr shore.
The Rooseveltian sea is growing IN
size and Importance day by day, and
already the tree tops are disappearing
and inlets and islets are beginning to
appear.
The possibilities of this, the large 4
inland salt water sea (the waters of
salt river are depositing the salt of
the White mOuntains) in the western
hemisphere, and the most useful body
of water of its size in this globe, for
is it not in the near future going to
irrigate the largest desert capable of
irrigation in the world, where miles of
alfalfa, orange and lemon groves and
countless thousands of happy people
fulfill the designs of this universes And
further, the electrical power generated
by the gravity of the waters will not
only be sufficient for the needs of the
teeming thousands of people and ami
mails that are now and will live and
have their being in the Salt river val
ley, but the city of Globe, with her
surrounding suburbs, her mines of cop
per, silver and gold be supplied with
power to run her manufactures and
other necessities, at .ue-half its pres
ent cost. And still further, the heated
vapors arising from the waters of this
inland sea waited onward and upward,
coming in contact with the cool air of
the surrounding mountains, will be
come CONCEALED and descend upon the
hillsides and valleys of this tropical
land and where now nought but the
cactus, horned toads and ella monsters
are the chief inhabitants, sheep, cattle
and orange groves will arise.
Reminding me that from earth to
earth, dust TO dust is true of every
thing but the soul
Were it not so, this planet would
have long since taken wings and gone
to the spirit land-and if the infrm-
tiles and diseases of those bodies would
have accompanied their spirits, having
no doctors, would have kept the spirit
world depopulated.
The banks of the Rooseveltian sea
will in the near future be the Baden
Baden and the Monte Carlo and the
manufacturing and pleasure resort of
the southwest and it behooves our flu
ture legislatures 30 look well 10 our
fences and see they are in order, and
especially along the county line be
tween the ambitious and aggressive
county of Maricopa and that of our
own prosperous county of ella, for the
Rooseveltian sea win soon become
very valuable asset.