Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-20
GRAND CANYON ID PROVIDE
 RESERVOIR
llFoRNlA MAN BELIEVES THIS PROJECT WILL BECOME 4
 REALITY IN TIME.
WHAT THIS GREAT FEAT WOULD MEAN TO ARIZONA AND
 SOUTHWEST.

E0munQ Alexanoer or pan bcFudtus- no, California, has an idea that Arizo- na is to be greatly aided in becoming the gDatest state in the union by the United States government closing up the lower end of the Grand canyon and making that mighty chasm one vast storage reservoir for irrigation water. In a recent letter to the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Alexander expresses him self on this subject. His letter follows: Westward the course of empire takes
 its way,
 The first four acts already passed, The fifth shall close the drama of the
 day.
 Times noblest offspring is her last"
 As with empires so with states, Ari- zona will probably be the last state admitted into the union; but if the proper steps are taken by the cham bers of commerce and boards of trade of the cities and towns of that terri lto piOSiccS HI tiC hSAl tCh ySoA will be unparalleled. Three factors combine to make Arizona the chief commercial section of the southwest and the connecting link for the devel- opment of the enormous trade soon to be established between the United States and Mexico and South America to the south of us and far-off Asia to the west.
 The first factor is the mineral re- sources. This industry has already advanced until the annual income ex- ceeds fifty millions. furnishing employ ment to thousands of men at great CT da,Iy income than in any other vo- cation, besides returning a larger per centage for the capital invested than any other occupation or business.
 The second factor is the opportunity | Arizona has to furnish water sufficient to irrigate hundreds of thousands oi | acres of the richest desert land in this country and also water power for in
 numerable factories. power plants and electric lines.
 In the northern portion of Arizona
 lies the wonder of the world" ready
 and willing to do the bidding of man
 namely the Grand Canyon. It extend. east and west across the northern DOT
 tion Of Arizona for PIT miles, Is thir teen m les wide and one mile deep With the western end of this canyon damned up, you will have sufficient
 supply of water to change from desert Hand into productive ranches, the mil lions of acres of the richest lands in southwestern Colorado. southern Utah and Nevada, northwestern New Mex. leo, northern and western portion of I Arizona and southeastern California, includ ng the entire Imperial valley, the richest land on which the sun <. shines. Will this great work ever be accomplished? Emphatically, yes. By i @nom? The United States govern nent. Why GO you say so? Listen and I will tell you. If you own an o. ange ranch which is paying you yearly s200 per acre and you see that by spending s200 per acre annually upon that ranch 1t VII increase its earning power s400 per acre, making a net gain of $500 per acre. will you spend the extra s2Oo? Most assuredly you will For that same reason the gov ernment will, in proper time. br dle the waters of the great canyon, and make them serve mankind.
 1 Uncle Sam is very liberal in aiding his subjects n accomplishing enterpris- .s for the good ot the whole communi 7, wh.ch sng:e-Landed they could not achieve. When the population of the United States demands the use of the , fertile desert lands in the territory stcve named, Uncle Sam will issue a decree that the waste of water" shall cease. and the flood be held in abey- ance at a place convenient to the in hatitants of the land of the sx states and territories above named. VIZ: the Grand Canyon"
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