Arizona republican., 1911-11-06

,are all here good so moisture at the right time and Ithe right temperature all the time and this makes nearly ideal conditions find this planet. Add to this large body of level land uniformly lrich and shaped for irrgaton-arge enough build up an influential and independent community and fence out sense of isolation and you have the eral conditions which invite the intelligent farmer and promise him prosperity.
 IRRIGATION
 The average resident of the eastern states cannot separate the garden hose and sprinkngpot from his idea of irrigation He lives in land where six weeks without rain is calamity. He cannot understand how population exist it does in the west where six months sometimes pass between showers. Yet exist it does and in prosperity by of ditches that take from the rivers plenty and distribute the life giving fluid far upon the fertile plains Here in the Salt River valley the visitor drive in day past a hundred thousand acres all green with grass alfalfa vines and fruit trees and to every acre has been diverted in needful and true proportion Up toward the highland is the line of a great canal. upon which boats might be Above it lies desert" gently sloping plain covered with dark green bush, with here and there a beautiful ironwood curious palo verde the latter in the spring time huge bouquet of yellow blossoms. The fluted of the saguara the giant cactus. bear aloft of white flowers while the buds of the broad baded pricky unfold to blooms of bright red
 Below the canal sharply in contrast lies the land reclaimed From every canal scores of lateras fed through which the water tender keeps jealous These laterals again divide each branch to it's farm of whatever size. Out on the fields bare legged aborers receive the tide with wei coming shovels. In between long borders of earth diverted, till each DOrdered section IS Tn well covered and the irrigation is done In this ivalley level is the land and uniform is its gen. tile slope usually unattended with problem of how make the water uphill In the orchards vineyards the water is conducted into plowed in the well-loosened soil, and thus to tree and vine
 NO EXPERIMENT
 Investigation into the history of irrigation shows have been coinciden with the first awakening of the human race from animalism The first those of Egypt Syria, Assyria and India each the bounty of the earth and is to day, almost entirely through the aid of artificialy diverted from streams. To this day their climates to have known material change and it is immateria to the husbandman whether rain dampens the soil he successfully tlls It is trely similar condition exists. Here is to be found land similar in almost respect the ancient land of Canaan, whence returned Israels spies heavily laden with the spells of fruitful soil The Holy Land and the southern part of Arizona lie upon the parallels of latitude. Jerusalem is identical in latitude with Phoenix In both, the land productive artificially watered; the temperature and alike. Here, too, are ruins of ago Here, thousands of years the Toltec people, unlike the Israelites of old. Possibly, too, they displaced Htites of prior occu paton mayhap the cliff dwellers. who built their above the valleys they tiled Here the primitive tribes diverted the flow of Salt river into