Mohave County miner., 1910-01-01
A Great Enterprise.


One of the greatest enterprises this
county has ever known is now on foot
at Needles, where a company, known
as the Cotton Land Company, has been
organized, with W.. J. Hole, president;
Louis Evans, vicepresident; D NJ.
Martin, secretary; w. ]. Hollings-
worth, treasurer. The company has
taken over all the lands formerly held
by the Rio Colorado Land & Irrigation
company, comprising about 10000
acres. The company expect to spend
about 300, COOS on the enterprise, which
contemplates the dyking of the entire
river bottom from Fort Mohave, on
the north, to far below Needles on
the south, covering what is known as
the Mohave Valley, in this county.
A town to be known as Cottonia is to
be established at some convenient
point on the lands, but the headquart-
ers of the company is to be maintained
in Needles for long time to come.
The dyke to be built by the COM
pany is to be ten feet wide on the top,
thirty-two foot base and three feet
above any known high water with
lateral dykes. to divide the whole
bottom into sections, to protect the
different parts of the. bottom lands
should a break occur in the main
dyke. Already one hundred men and
one hundred mules with plows and
scrapers are at work throwing up the
dyke, which is expected to be COM
pleted by early spring, or before the
first high water. The force will soon
be doubled, men and teams coming on
from the Blythe estate, where they
have been at work on a similar enter
prise. The work is to be entirely in
the hands of the Burton Construction
company, one of the largest concerns
of the kind in the United States. The |
work contracted embraces total |
main dyke more than twenty miles in |
length and nearly one hundred miles
of lateral dykes.
The officers of the company are held |
high in financial circles and command
the respect and attention of the best
business men of the country. They
have made good in many similar
and their advent in Mo-
have couI t meaIs the bringing in of
many million dollars OF taxable prop
erty. The land will be devoted to
cotton and alfalfa culture. The lands
have raised nine crops of alfalfa during
a year and it is expected that this
record will be maintained when the
new company have the ground in
proper shape for its culture A big
plant, gins, and other
machinery will be put in to handle
he cotton and seed, oil cake and oil
being the product that will be turned
tut in large quantity. Feeders will be
in from the surrounding
,attle ranges and put in SHAPE for
shipment to market.
This great enterprise will probably
De followed by many other enterprises
If similar nature in this county, the
ands being suitable for cotton and
alfalfa culture on large scale. Cot
on culture on a small scale has been
carried on for years along the Virgin
liver in the north part of the country,
out the yield has been small and the
stalks diminutive in size, while on the
Sandy the stalks were large and the
lotion long and silky in fibre. At
Fort Mohave the experimental stalks
If cotton were we'll developed and
h)wed that its culture in the Mohave
Valley would be a great success.
The Miner is under obligation to T.
7. Murphy, of Needles, for all the facts
'elating to the new company contain
ID in this article.
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