The Holbrook news., 1911-05-26
COUNTRY WILL SUPPORT
 ENORMOUS POPULATION
RECLAMATION ON LANDS WILL MAKE
 VAST AREAS HABITBLE
Praises Climate of Arizona and Predicts
 Great Future for Territory.

7 crowded that our soil will not be able to yield enough to feed our people is silly pessimism. I am just back in Chicago from trip to the southwest. always come back from a western trip an exU- berant 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 company, who left Chicago recently to be pre- sent at the laying of a corner stone at new factory his company is erecting Tn Kansas City and later toured the southwest as far as the coast to make men tai notes concerning the territory in which his new establishment would necessarily seek it's bus mess,
 The one thing that impress ed me most forcibly." MT, Green asserted, "was the vast area in the southwestern country that soon is to be made habitablIy to  millions of people. Especially is this true of Texas and Arizona. Fifty years ago. I remember. my school geography showed that this region was a part of the Great American desert. Part of this country, of course. already has boen reclaimed and is now thickly populated, but there are great areas that remain uninvad- ed. water will be truned on this soil and when that happens, the so-called desert lands of the south west will blossom as no other sec tion 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 water will bring to it will be garden of Eden.'
 MT. Green spoke at consider able legnth and his interview concerning the southwest was given considerable space in various Chicago and eastern pub lications, The drainage question is one which interests every state in the union, and is causing all section of the country to take un- usual interest in the nineteenth annual meeting Of the National Irrigation congress at Chicago December 5 to g.
 This great development orga- ization has been one of the lead CTS in the work to have the oyer flow lands reclaimed through the cooperation of the national, state and individual efforts under a q plan similar to that by which reclamation through irrigation has accomplished such wonders throughout the western states. special attention will be given this year at the Chicago meeting 70 this matter. which is of such direct interest to the statesof the south and middle west.
 At the Pueblo meeting last year ihe irrigation congress adopted 3 resolution regarding dainage as follows: Recognizing the econ onnic waste and menace to the public health connected with our vast areas of swamp and overflow lands. we request our representative in the federal congress to take suitable action looking toward the reclamation of such lands under a policy cor responding with that of the re- cIamation of arid lands by irriga- ton under the reclamation of swamp and overflow lands to be carried forward through cooper ation between individual owners .tates and the federal govern hent.
 At the Chicago meeting special
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