Arizona republican., 1911-05-22
COUNTRY WILL SUPPORT ENORMOUS POPULATION RECLAMATION ON LANDS WILL MAKE VAST AREAS
 IRRITABLE. Phaises Climate of Arizona =nJ Pre- diets Great Future fer Ter
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Chicago. May 2O-"Talk of thi. country ever becoming 50 crowded that our soil will not be able to yield enough to feed our people is silly pessimism. I am just back in Chicag, from trip to the southwest. l all ways come back from a western triI an exuberant optimist This time is no exception. There is something tonic about that country
 So speaks A. w. Green of Chicago and New York. head of the nations foremost biscuit manufacturing com pany. who left Chicago recently tC be present at the laying of a corner stone at a new factory his company is erecting in Kansas City and later toured the southwest as far as the coast to make mental notes concern ing the territory in which his new establishment would necessarily seek its business.
 Tine one thing that impressed me most forcibly" MT. Green asserted was the vast area in the southwest ern country that soon is to be made habitable to millions of people Es-
 
 Arizona. Fifty years ago, remem- Der. my school geography showed that this region was a part of the Great American desert Part of this coun- try, of course, already has been re- claimed and is now thickly populated, but there are great areas that remain uninvaded. Soon water will be turned on this soil and. when that happens the sO-called desert lands of the southwest wl blossom as no other section of America blossoms
 Some day the Arizona country will become one of the worlds greatest agricultural districts The climate is unsurpassed With the vegetation which wates- will bring to it it will be a garden of Eden
 Mr Green spoke at considerable length and his interview concerning the southwest was given considerable space in various Chicago and eastern publications The drainage question is one which interests every state in the union. and is causing all sections of the country to take unusual inter est in the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Irrigation congress at Chicago December , to 9.
 This great development organization has been one of the leaders in the work to have the overflow lands reclaimed through the cooperation of the na- tional. state and individual efforts under a plan similar to that by which reclamation through irrigation has accomplished such wonders throughout the western states. Spe- cial attention will be given this year at the Chicago meeting to this matter, which is of such direct interest to the states of the south and middle west
 At the Pueblo meeting last year the irrigation congress adopted reso- ton regarding drainage as follows: Recognizing the economic waste and menace to the public health connected with our vast areas of swamp and overflow lands. we re- quest our representatives in the fed eral congress to take suitable action looking toward the reclamation of such lands under a policy cores bonding with that of the reclamation Of arid lands by irrigation under the reclamation service; such reclamation of swamp and overflow lands to be carried forward through cooperation between individual owners, states and the federal government"
 At the Chicago meeting special ef- forts will be made to further this policy.