Arizona republican., 1909-02-07
CHUCkAWALLA DAM PROJECT That or Some Other WiII Re.
 claim a Vast Area
 
 AN EARLIER DEVELOPMENT
Parker's Prosperity Need Not Wait For Irrigation Enter prises When the Richest Mineral Ground in the World is Nearby.
(By Tom Shultz.)

Parker, AriZ., Feb. 2.-(Special Correspondence of The Republican.)- Late Associated Press news received in Parker states that the war depart ment favors the bill permitting the Chuckawalla company of Los Angeles to construct a dam across the Colo rado river above Parker. It has been claimed that such a project would be espoused by the government as soon as there were available funds for the purpose but be that as it may, the people of this section are fully aware that the time is coming when the water of the Colorado will be placed upon the 100000 or more acres that lie in sight of Parker. The Chucka
 walla people have acquired a large body of mesa land lying back of the Blythe estate. The length of this canal would be fully fifty miles when it is intended to cover the tract, but hundreds of homes with various acreages would be developed on both sides for its entire course. Parker today is receiving more advertising than any other point in the south west from the very fact that it is now the subject of national legisla- tion. Parker at the present has no real estate to sell, but within the next few months the townsite will be opened to those who may wish to settle down and take advantage of the great natural resources that sur round it and which will be many. many years in reaching their full stage of development. Water and land are and always will be the life-giv- -E WNI whenever those agents are found to- gether, no advertising, in fact, is nec- essary. Capital is not tickle when it sees thousands of worthless grease. wood and sage brush acres. with bountiful supply of water at hand to work the transformation. The pio- neers of the Colorado river and those of later years, can rest assured, that there are great agents at work for the reclamation of this vast amount of land and the day of its redemption may be closer than any one suspects.
 While the above projects are yet in embryo, they certainly will mature in time, and in the interium, Parker must present its honest claims to an other class of promoters and invest ors, and they are the people who deal in and make mines. Parker claims to be the center practically of a large mining field. The mountains that completely surround it are highly mineralized and hundreds of prospects are entitled to extensive development, while there are many, which might be termed mines that, under the proper conditions, should be producers today. It is not for the writer to say what a claim owner should or should not take for his property, no more would it be his business to suggest to the promoter or prospective purchaser what he should do in the premises
 Nevertheless. there is a hitch some where, which works disastrously to all concerned. Many pdomoters declare that cash down on an undevelOped prospect is out of the question but it seems as a rule that the prospect upon which some cash down is re- quired Is the kind that the promoters are most desirous of obtaining. The claim owner often meets the promoter with the proposition that he is not sufficiently acquainted with his capa- bilities, or in another term, his ere dentials, and that he is a little bit du- biOus about surrendering his rights, thereby inviting a lawsuit and all kinds of trouble, for the pleasure of inaugurating a deal that more than likely would prove inimical to his in- terests. The claim owners are cer- tainly entitled to serious considera-