Arizona republican., 1911-08-21

plan, until the plan, merely dreamed of in the beginning. has materialized and I am confident that that dam IS big enough to furnish water for every acre of agricultural land in this valley.
 "As for the Roosevelt Dam-I don't know where to begin. It is wonder full It looks as though it had been there for ages-as though 1t formed part of the mountain. When I looked at it picture of the great pyramid of Cheops flashed across my mind, because Cheops is synonomous Tor indestructibility, and 1 thought that the big dam would last as long. It is there for all ages, and it is such tremendous structure. and so nobly conceived and worked out that-a person might think it worthy work of God Himself. That is the inn pression carried awGy with ne from Roosevelt. The dam in all it's bigness and strengSn, makes man think of the might and power of the Diety."
 The party returned from Roosevelt last Saturday evening and spent the night at Mesa. Yesterday morning was spent in going over the country surrounding Mesa, and Phoenix was reached by noon. The Indian school and the Glendale sugar plant were visited during the afternoon. and it was not until late last night that Senator Smith reached his hotel to rest up after the strenuous travei of his two days of sight seeing
 q have had a rather busy time of it since I reached Phoenix Friday morning." he said, but It IS Just exactly what I came here to do. wanted to see as much in as short space of time as possible. ana II We missed anything on our way up to the dam or during the few hours we spent in Mesa, I have no idea what it could have been.
 "There is one thing that I want to say don't know whether it IS the right thing or not, for people never like to hear unpleasant things At least they don't back in Kansas and I don't suppose the farmers here are any different in that re- spect But I saw a good deal or wa ter wasted on ranches that were De- ing irrigated as we drove by, and think. from the looks of some or the places I saw that a few Of your farmers are trying to make the wa ter do all the work. Now, that isn't going to pay. It is fine thing to have plenty of water. and plenty of good rich land. but the two have to be sort of married together and cultivated and nursed to get along
 nrf nr nv result. It's the only chance an ordinary farmer has to act the preacher and he has to work at the ceremony every day in the year. But if pays, and the better you do It. and the harder you keep at it. the bigger the results that follow.
 ..There is nothing I can say about vour lands that will have even suggestion of originality or newness, for any one who has seen the won derful crops raised here knows as much about that, and perhaps good deal more than I do. But, if there IS one thing that impressed me deepest of all, it was the road to Roosevelt They have such roads. in Europe, built over the Alps. and in other places, but there is no other road in this country that will compare with the Roosevelt road. If there is, l haven't been able to find it. But the whole project has to be described in su- perlatives I haven't enough of them myself to do the subject justice. All I can say is that the whole thing 
 When asked to describe the Grand Canyon, which he visited early in August. Senator Smith replied:
 'I can't describe it-but it is the biggest thing in the world.
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