Arizona republican., 1911-05-22
FOR ALL ARIZONA Facts Exploited at Douglas
 Meeting WORK OF THE 4. ,. BOARD
Wonderful Resources of the Territory as Shown by Speakers and Need of Cooperation in Their Development.

While it is yet fresh in the minds of those who keep in touch with public affairs. especially such as concern the development of the country, the recent meeting of the Development Board of Arizona in Douglas is worthy of a more extended review than has hither- to been made. The story Of the hos pitality of the people of the line city and the appreciation of her guests, has been told but there has been no eX- tended mention heretofore of the pro ceedings of the business session and the addresses delivered.
 In her talk before the meeting Miss Hall. the territorial historian. brought out the advantages of co-OperatiOn be- tween the different parts of Arizona. She advised the workers to get better acquainted with one another. and spoke of the benefits that would fol- low such steps. One suggestion was the need of sending men to the legis- lature who are acquainted with the needs of their own particular locality. Miss Hal referred to the unlimited
 
 known Arizona and suggested the CO., operation between all commercial or ganizations that a booklet on all Ari- zOna be published. Miss Hall offered her help in the securing of data for the booklets both for the territory and for any locality, and asked all those rep resentatives present to send in samples Of the printed matter they were is suing for their respective localities.
 Frank W. Doan in speaking on the subject of our Public Domain" re- gretted the complexity of the land laws which made it difficult to get proper title and which the speaker said did much to retard the development of mining and agriculture. He stated that Arkansas had disposed of five times as much land as Arizona had a few years ago The situation at pres ent put the government in the light of wanting to hold all the land possible He advised reforms on the entire land question
 John P. Fowler. the representative from the new county of GreenIee, touched upon the opportunities in his
 
 sources of the forests In his talk MT Fowler took occasion to compliment the forest service on the good work of it's bureau. As a practical man he spoke with assurance and with knowledge gained from experience in observing the work of the forest service. The need of canneries and factories in the ter ritOry was brought out in MT Fowlers address and the opportunities in this particular line were stated to be very fine.
 The commercial aspect of good roads and the value to Arizona of her climate and scenery were referred to as one subject in the address of Territorial Engineer J. B. Girand Having the finest scenery on the globe MT. Gi- rand thought # about time that some of the twenty millions of tourists who visit Switzerland every year should be seen in the western states. where there is not only scenery as impressive. but hundreds of other attractions which elsewhere are not provided An open all-the-year transcontinental highway would of necessity have tO go via Ari- zona. it is the only place that the very necessary requisite can he found. and with road construction averaging S3.OOO per mile as against SIP 900 in other west ern states. there is every reason why Arizona should lead in this great movement. The engineer pointed out the advantages of the employment of convict labor. and the economy of bond issues for road building. He suggested that in great measure the future of the territory rested with it's roads.
 Malcolm 4. Fraser. secretary of the Prescott chamber of commerce. pre- sented very able paper on the sub iect of dry farming which is now being given a great deal of attention in Ari- zona. It is a document so applicable to many parts of the territory in some of it's features, that it would make an excellent bulletin in any series of All Arizona literature that might be pub lished. After some general remarks on the history of dry farming and the de calOgue" of the dry farmer. Mr. Fra ser divided the dry farming areas in Arizona. into classes. defined by alti- tude rather than latitude, The first consists of narrow valleys and parks in the mountains at attitudes of from 5000 to 5000 feet as. for instance: Parks in the San Francisco mountains estimated to contain 35.O00 acres. those near Williams. ten to twenty thousand acres; smaller parks and valleys in the mountains between Flagstaff and the