Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-14
EDEN
WILL BE OPENED
HARQUA HALA VALLEY SOON
TO BLOOM
ENGINEERS CORRAL WATER FOR
IRRIGATION
coronado's Garden Spot, After Many
Distinct Epochs, Approaches
Period of American
Development

| Among the sun-kissed valleys of Ari-
zona as rich as Egypt under irrigation
there are none that have better SOIL
or better adapted to irrigation than
the Harqua-Hala valley, on the Par
ker cutoff of the Santa Fe, which was
the scene of European exploration
exploration twenty-eight years before
st. Augustine was established, sew
enty-two years before the founding of
jamestown and eighty-three years
prior to the landing of the Pilgrims
On Plymouth Rock. In 1887 Cabeza
de Vaca, with four companions, trav-
eled from Florida to Culiacan, Mex
leo, whose glowing descriptions led
Coronado to make a similar pilgrim
age in 1540, but. instead of finding
buildings gar1ished with gold, he
found adobes and the inhabitants
peacefully engaged in agriculture. In
his report he says:
"Forty-five leagues in a southwest
direction from Moqui, on mountain
easily ascended, near two rivers whose
banks were lined with great quantities
of wild grapes, walnut trees and flax
like those of CASTLE, ETC., I found
river whose flow was entirely UNDER
ground, a hole dug in its surface
yielding an abundance of the purest
truthful waters" and found the
canals which had been used for irri-
cation by the ancient Toltecs, a race
long since extinct"
Modern engineers have located
Coronado's garden spot as being the
well known but heretofore inaccessi-
BILE Harqua Hala valley, which re-
ceives it's waters from the Centennial
wash through the Harrisburg pass,
which has been known for more than
fifty years by prospectors and travel
ers across the desert as sure water
ing place.
Large Indian Settlement
The early pioneers found a large In
dian settlement near this pass, whose
legends state that at one time an open
stream flowed through the valley from
the immense watershed called y them
Grace valley.
The Harqua Hala Development
company by a series of wells has de-
veloped the fact that there is at least
22, 900 inches of water flowing through
the pass, which they are now corral
ing, and in the matter of six weeks
or so will have ready for irrigating
the valley, which lies about sixty feet
below. AS the quality of the soil in
the Harqua Hala is so excellent and
the climate so far superior to other
valleys, a great rush of land seekers
is expected. Those not having used
their homestead rights will avail them
selves of this opportunity to get their
land at a cost of filing, while others
may file on it under the desert act and
secure three hundred and twenty
acres by paying 20 cents at time of
making application and 81 when title
is perfected.
For the present the water company
has been very liberal and is charging
only 81 a year for water, an exception
ally low price.
The soil of the Harqua Hala valley
is an alluvial deposit of great depth,
having been washed down from the
mountains and the valleys above and
deposited in this valley for many ages
"a fine sandy loan containing no al
kali nor adobe, and which under irri-
cation would be as fertile as the valley
of the Nile.
Above the Frost Belt
1t lies at an altitude of about 100
feet and is practically above the frost
belt and it is expected to be axcellent
for all kinds of citrus fruits. an en-
thusiastic locator calling it "the
future Riverside of Arizona" Old
timers and residents of the vicinity
claim the climate to equal anything
in California, the extreme heat being
10 degrees and no frost in the winter
The nights are always cool and one
can be wrapped safely in the arms of
Morpheus every night in the year with
out that displeasure of heat found in
other parts of the territory. The de-
velopment company's representative,
j. w. Whann, who has offices at 406
Columbia Trust building, is here to
PLACE locators on lands near its new
town. and many are taking advan-
tage of this opportunity of getting
homes in an ideal climate near to los
Angeles,