Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-02-20
ARlzOOA EULOGIzEO BY WELL
KNOWN NEWSPAPER WRITES

The following article by Frederick
J. Hsskins. is being published in east
ern papers;
For fully a third of century Arr
IONA has 5een hoping and working
for statehood At last it sands on
the threshold of realizing this ambi-
ton. and IL is asserted hat nc other
territory has come into the union with
a more splendid past or a more prom
Using future. Here irrigation is ouch
ing the soil as Moses touched the rock
with his rod. Here the mineralogist
he geologist sees the worlds hes
story of its own making. Written in
hooks of stone in its canyons and
gorges and e-rified forests. N char
acters which the expert may read. is
the account that nature gives of the
unnumbered millions OF years since
I American emerged from a shoreless
sea. The our greatest Of sculp.ors
( fire. water. sand and wind-have
I united TO make Arizona a treasure
house Of wonders. The debris of Their
studios has no. been cleared away,
+ hence it is the biologists paradise
Here. too. the ethnolegist and the
4 archaeologist find wonderful records
OF the pas The ethnolcgist can pie
ture a people who lived but little re-
moved from the stone age. Through
the work Of the archaelogist he Is
! permit ed TO study the surroundings q
4 cave-dwellers and cl'ffdweilers who
! lived in times SO remove that even
tradition is dumb as to whence they
came viii her they went. In fact. one
wonders if he does no survey at one
glance the whole existence of man
/ from the time of Adam TO this year
OF grace 1910. The dry, preserving
qualities of the atmosphere have kept
intact ruins that elsewhere might have
crumbled into dust thousands of years
ago.
But Arizona is more than a nature
written record of bygone ages. Ii is
as much a land of tomorrow as of
yes erday The plants of the tropics
commingle with those of northern
climes. and the growing things of the
| desert associate with the fruitage OF
the valley. Na-ure has stored up MN
eTal wealth Of untold value Gold.
silver. precious stones. copper lead.
zinc and coal are all here. There is
copper in such quantities as to justify
the prediction that he Arizona ranges
1 heaceforth win lead the world.
irrigation Projects in Arizona.
The work Of the government in con-
structing he great irrigation project
Of the Salt River valley will make this
one OF the foremost irrigated regions
of the world The famous Roosevelt
dam is one OF the parts Of his pro
( ject. It is located across The canyon
I Of the Salt river. almost 20 miles
northeast Of Phoenix 1t rises 2T6
fee above bedrock, and is so inter
sected with the side walls of the can
yon tina. it seems almost a part Of the
everlasting hills. over 100000 cubic
yards of solid masonry, and nearly as
many barrels of cement, have entered
into its construction. The water i
impounds will form the largest ari
fetal lake in the world, with the single
exception OF the one which VIII be
formed by the great Gatun dam a
Panama.
The lake viii hold enough water (
cover 1924. 600 acres of land enc foot
deep. The average amount Of water
required 10 grow a seasons crop i.
four feet. and all but some 10 inche-
Of this must come from the mountain.
through the rivers that drain th'
. watersheds. The government build!
the irrigation works and gets it!
, money back from he sales Of Lane
and water. The Yuma project. is al
most as large as the one at Salt river
, The Colorado, mad from its wild rusl
down the Grand Canyon, is impounde'
AID its waters scattered over III
. desert. Transforming the barren vast
, into a land OF surprising productive
, ness.
II is sad thas Arizona has the larg
s est unbroken forest in the world.
lies within the San Francisco mount
ain and the Black Mesa forest rt
: Iserves. and contains over 5000 squar
, miles Of timber land. In addition t
this there are other vast areas of tin
4 Der that stretch far north Of the Gran
. Canyon
, Intensive Farming and Dense .
& Popuszfion.
9 The work of the reclamation servie
. is converting millions of acres of Ian
? into a yeritable Eden. and intensiv
? farming will make possible a densit
8 of population undreamed of in any r.
2 gion where irrigation is unknown
Egypt. with less irrigable land Ina
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