Arizona republican., 1909-12-26
SUCCESSFUL FARMING
 WITH LITTLE WATER
What is Being Done in . Valley Sec
 ton Outside the Reservoir .,i & .f District


 story and 1t Is out of the ordinary for
 1t has nothing to do with either the I government reclamation service or any canal company. It relates to private enterprise solely. showing how observ-
 ing men by keeping up with the times
 and seizing their opportunities may | use to their advantage the facts of a
 half dozen lines of development carried | on on large scale elsewhere. inci-
 dentally doing little experimenting
 on their own account It is also dem
 onstrative of the latent possibilities of | dry old Arizona. not yet half apprea | ciated It shows how fifty years hence
 this territory in at least a thousand | similarly favored spots. not yet recog-
 nized. will furnish homes for from
 dozen to half hundred happy fam | flies each. where enterprise and con
 servatism properly blended will unite | for success of the individual Such 1, places do not offer the conditions nec- essary for inviting settlement gcncr- ally or promiscnously. but they are here for the men who seek them out and are willing to work and wait for prosperity.
 Reference is made to that area north of the Arizona. canal. outside the res erroir district and in the vicinity of what is generally called the Cave Creek wash There are six or eight families in that neighborhood now. quite successfully working out their own salvation by employing to some extent the methods of dry farming: by utilizing to some extent their knoyvl- edge of pumping and irrigating: and by taking advantage of the fitful flow of Cave Creek when it chances to be in the notion. Cave Creek as most people here know is most undepend- able as a source of surface water sup ply. In fact the greater part of the year it is as dry as a baseball ground after it reaches the irrigable desert lands. And vet its water shed and it's torrential demonstrations prove to the observing that there is always water somewhere under the Cave Creek wash if it can be coaxed to the surface. And the Cave Creek wash settlers are quite successfully coaxing it.
 There is nothing like being specific and the facts here given are from the lips of w. H. Beazell who has charge of the broom factory at the Phoenix Indian school. He has also filed on a quarter section of the land in the Cave Creek wash. the southwest quarter of 24. north east and is one of the half dozen mentioned. Fourteen months ago he moved on the land and began making his improvements. He had a couple of thousand dollars with nyhl tn fa arA Dit start. for it should be understood that no one can begin with nothing. on nothing. and get rich very fast That is why a place like the Cave Creek wash is not proper place to direct settlers generally.
 But MT. Beazell studied his ground carefully. He looked before he leaped | and proceeded with good judgment He l knew there was water under Cave l Creek even if there was none in it. l He selected piece of land that he be- | lieved at least touched the Cave Greek | underf1ow somewhere. and he guessed | right He. built his little house on a l hill or at least on the highest corner ] of his property and began sinking a | we'll People said he was crazy: that | he never would find water there but | he replied that if he did find it it | would be where he wanted it. on the |. high part of his property so he could | run it in any direction he pleased and | all over the land If there was enough i of it. He drilled and found water at | the depth of 215 feet. plenty of it. he | don't know how much but all he can | pump. He could now prove up and | get title to the ranch but he prefers to | wait awhile and invest what that | would cost in further improvements
 The first good fortune he had was in the quality of the water Tested | at the university there was no trace of | alkali or salts and it was pronounced about as near a chemically pure water as one could find and sweet and pleas ant to the taste. Mrs. Beazell had been suffering greatly of Bright's disease for long time. As soon as she began drinking the water she experienced re- lief and now after fourteen months seems to he in perfect health. Her Phoenix physician says the water has cured her. It has been suggested to Nr. Beazell that he might bottle and sell it but he says he will not sell a pint. It is too valuable to sell but he will give it to anybody who will come after 1t. Incidentally he says he be- lieves the city of Phoenix could find. a municipal supply there that would be as far ahead of it's present water as can be imagined. It could be piped by gravity possibly but of course it would have to be pumped.
 Raising water a couple of hundred feet or tbcreabout is not an irrigating of course if much land is to be watered but only small tract is to be cultivated in that manner. just q few acres He now has fence around ft. acres that he uses for pas lure and garden and could water more. He has erected Sampson wind mill with ten foot sweep and raises water with S inch plunger running It through two inch pipe. He also has 3000 gallon tank which he keeps | Full. 1t would take lots of wind mills ,o irrigate a farm but up to the limit ,f practicability it is ideal for there is no expense for power except the initial 
 The major part of the farming opcr- i' ations arc carried on by tapping the surface flow fin Cave Creek when there1 s any and by dry farming the rest of |