Arizona republican., 1911-05-25
INTERVENING COUNTRY
Numerous Communities that Should Become Patrons at an Early Day Settlers Are Interesting Them selves in the Matter.

In recent article in these columns the plans of the reclamation service for gridironing this valley with trans mission power lines, which may be tapped by little community corpora tiOns among the farmers or others. were set forth at some length It was shown that nearly every part of the valley could with moderate eX- penSe connect with one or another of them. except what is known as the west end" No main line is planned for that section yet for the reason that there has hitherto been no de mand for power It now appears that the demand is undertaking very rapidly and when it is sufficiently strong there is no doubt but that the reclamation service can be induced to run the desired transmission line. The government is just as anxious to sell power as the people are to buy it, when the conditions warrant the ex- penditure necessary for it's delivery
 The first and nearest community that seems to be alive to the adVan- tages of cheap power is the Cashion ranch and vicinity. James Cashion is very much interested in the project and as the Cashion ranch is one of the largest in the valley. it win itself becO.1e large consumer of power if it can be delivered there The Pan American Ostrich farm is close by and though the management has not expressed itself it is quite natu- ral to suppose it would also become a power patron. There are other communities intervening that are quite populOus. the Fowler neighbor- hood for instance, and though no effort has yet been made to organ iZe the farmers it is natural to sup pose an auxiliary power company could easily be organized in that To- cality
 Those sections alone perhaps would not consume enough power to war rant the building of a line just yet and they take in the area to the Agua Fria or the boundary of the reservoir district But that is only part of the plan which the men interested are evolving. There is surplus power fO sale and it is be lieved there is fine market for it to the west of the reservoir district
 
 the Agua Fria river, and between it and the Avondale company's hold | ings. is an area of several square miles of the finest land in the world. all filed upon and some of it under improvement. that is sadly in need of power of some kind Most of these men are small owners of from twenty acres to a quarter section and they must either buy power or generate it themselves. which would require the investment of considerable money in a plant It is believed by those who ought to be in q position to know. that the government power can be secured there at much less expense than would be necessary in the building of plant and that the land owners would eagerly cooperate if the idea is developed
 Still further down are the commun- ities of Liberty. Palo Verde and Buckeye live rural districts. where settlers are rapidly multiplying and where the need of power is already apparent for the operation of ice plants. creameries. etc. to say noth- ing of electric lights. farm machin- cry. etc.
 The town of Buckeye is just now a most prosperous and growing com | munity. New institutions are being developed and the town of Buckeye will most likely be ready for light | ing system in the near future. All I these things together. it would seem. now that the people are some of them getting interested. should fn- sure a transmission line at no very I distant day. all the way from Phoe- nix to Buckeye.