The Parker post., 1911-11-04
SURVEY OF LANDS
TO START MONDAY
Surveyors Advance Guard Came This
Week, Balance Crew Due Sunday
Irrigation company's Consulting En-
gineers Arrive to Survey Dam Site.

the clouds that have hovered over
Parker are beginning to break and
the proverbial silver lining is easily
discernable in the not distant future.
Events the past week portend future
happenings of great Importance to
the advancement and development of
Parker. From this time forward it
is expected that there will be no ces-
sation of developments that are to
eventually make Parker one of the
greatest cities in Arizona.
There are ample grounds for tn.
use of superlatives in speaking of
Parker's future at this time, for it
is as rosy-tinted as a western sunset
and as bright as the morning star.
What may be said to be the initial
step toward opening the two hundred
thousand acres of agricultural land
adjacent to Parker was taken by the
government the past week by the ar
rival of the advance guard of the u.
S. Land Office surveyors who are to
subdivide the irrigable land into 40
allotted to the Indians into 10-acre
units.
Paul NJ. Bryan, special disbursing
agent of the general land office, was
the first to arrive, coming in Mon
day from Salt Lake, with the infor
nation that one double crew, inclu1
ing A F. Huntington, topographer in
charge of Indian surveys, and Guy
P. Harrington, U. S. surveyor in
charge, would be here in few days
to begin the work of surveying the
Colorado River Indian reservation.
Wednesday a carload of horses and
mules and a carload of supplies ar
rived. A temporary camp has been
pitched near the railroad tracks oIl
upper California avenue, awaiting the
arrival of the balance of the crew.
which was delayed at Pyramid Lake
near Reno, New, to finish up certain
work there. H. S. Baldwin and f.
E. Joy, members of the surveying
party, arrived Thursday. The entire
party will be organized by Monday
and from that day until the survey
shall have been completed there will
be no let up to the work
Another double crew under Robert
A Farmer, who is now in charge OF
finishing up the work on the Gill;
reservation, will arrive here some
time in December and work in con
junction with the crew that is to take
the field next week. 1t is the inten
the work on this reservation by early
spring, and for this reason two doub-
lie crews are to be used. Each crew
contains about twenty-five men, and
with this force it is believed the en-
tire survey will be fininsed within
four or five months.
irrigation Surveyors Arrive.
Now that the government has tax.
en- the lOng-lOoked for step toward
the opening of the Colorado River
reservation by the arrival of the sur
veying crew to sub-divide the thou
sands of acres of land contained
therein, the officials of the Greeley
Arizona Irrigation company has be-
gun to get busy with its part of the
entry and settlement of the lands
tuesday,. H. Quinton and F. H. Ohm
sted, consulting engineers for the
Greeley company, arrived here to sur
vey the site of the proposed diver
sion dam at Headgate Rock and tC
prepare plans and specifications of
the irrigation works to be installed by
the company. 1t is claimed that the
Greeley company has everything prac-
tically completed for beginning tho
work of construction as soon as tbs
necessary legislation that is to come
before the first state legislature in
January becomes effective
Now that the government and irri-
cation officials have become busy the
date of opening the lands to entry is
not far distant. No doubt the Indians
will be allotted within the next two
or three months, and upon completion
of the survey of the reservation its
opening should be urged at the earli-
est possible moment
The foregoing events of the past
week mark a new era in Parkers his
tory. and it will not be long before
unprecedented prosperity shall come
by rush of settlers and capital seek
ing investment Parker's star is in
the ascendant and everybody is hap
py over the future outlook