Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-10

many generations to come. It is a bright and beautiful city. high and dry and good to live in. It is here. in the Plaza of Prescott. that Borg 'um's Rough Rider statue stands in enduring bronze as perhaps the most beautiful equestrian statue in the world. It commenmorates the i'm, mortal deeds Of the famous Rough Rider in the Cuban war. The figure is that of Capt William o. ((Bucky'D o'Neill, who was. at the time he left for the war. serving as the mayor of Prescott.
 Williams and Flagstaff are Ium- Der cities and favorite resorts for all Arizonans from the lowiands in the hot season of the year. Williams is the gateway to the Grand Canyon. Flagstaff. stands under the twin peaks of the mighty San Francisco mountains. Both have large lumber mills that make the towns prosperous by giving employment to large nun bers of men.
 Clifton, Morenci. Benson, NOgales. Jerome (where the immense United Verde mines are lOcated.) Congress Wickenburg. Kingman. and last but not least Yuma may be mentioned among the other towns that are des- tined to become centers of large populations in Arizona. Near Yuma is located the great Laguna dam which is the storage plant for one of the most famous irrigation fro jects of the present time.
 In the fact of these things and of many others. the picture of Ari zona framed for us in our boyhood becomes entirely misleading and in adequate. We see that Arizona is not a waste and desolate country un productive, lawless and unfit for the presence of civilized man. But ws sec. instead that it is a land flow ing with milk and honey, that wheI admitted to the Union as a stat, it vii lead all the oter states in min eral production.
 The question that had 10 be solvet | in Arizona was the question o water. But water Is no longer problem there, Water is everywher, throughout the whole length an, breadth of the territory. Not onl! have the great irrigation projects solved the problem of water for tn, | land, but by means of artesian we'll and the conservation Of natura | springs every city has it's own ampl, | supply of pure and sparkling wate for every domestic need and demand lt has been found that there is ana ! always has been as much water il Arizona as in any other country. Onll 1 that it didn't show on the surface | Nature buried her great rivers ir Arizona and she kept them thus hid den awaiting the time when mar should need them.
 IL is nothing less than startling therefore to contemplate the extra ordinary manner in which nature | has provided for the greatness and i posperity of Arizona. Every need ot vast population has been foreseer and a means to meet the need has been supplied For instance. ever, mineral district has been provided with an adjacent agricultural dis | triet. Arizona, from one end to an other is now and will be still more a vast mineral camp incomparabl. larger in size and production thar any other mineral zone on earth The question is, then, where are thu foodstuffs to come from to suppl. these vast cities of the mines? I'm answer is that 1t is to come from th' very doorways of the cities them selves For the wonderful fact i that as you look down from the mir eralized mountains and hills of Ar zona you look down into valleys fer tile as the valleys of the Nile-va leys in which anything and every thing that ever grew on earth leap into bloom and fruitage at the toucl of water. Wherefore. Arizona car if she will build a wall around he mighty boundaries and live within herself secure and opulent though n
 trade from without were ever t knock at her gates If you were t
 stand among the green fields an
 the fruit orchards of the Salt Rive
 Valley and talk with the men an
 women of the wonder cities (
 Mesa and Tempe you would undei
 stand how wei, the Arizona farmer
 are preUared to feed the Arizon miner. the one strong right arm ( the other
 Withal Arizona will remain th
 land of wonder and mystery. tn land of faithful skies and of healtl
 fer the desert is the sanitarium
 the world Here are the footprint D of the lost and mystic past, the d
 serted homes of ancient cliff dwel CTS, the hieroglyphs of departed pc
 les. the Painted Desert. the Petrifie
 Forest and finally, the ultimate wo der of all. the Grand Canyon of Al zona, gsshed across an empire as tf last word in the mightiest traged
 nature has ever recorded.