Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-02
YUMA PROJECT
 IS WONDERFUL
Visitor Tells of What He Saw During Week
 Spent Looking
 Ground Over
CREDIT TO NATION
CBy A. K. Kanaga)

1UMA, Arizona, February l. lgl2-- For the past week l have been look ] ing over the government irrigation : project and it is wonder in the way of construction. Uncle Sam had a chance 10 show his skill and he did
 1t in a way that reflects glory on the stars and stripes.
 The Laguna Dam ten miles above
 Yuma is 4S00 feet wide and it raises the water and also affords a settling ! basin to let the thick rich silt go to
 >he bottom and the clearer water pass
 into the Canal. the main intake goes down through the old Indian reserya.
 tion on the California side, then eros
 ses into Arizona under the Colorado
 River. Here is one of the wonders
 oi modern engineering and the work.
 men are caged in under the bed of the
 Colorado and air is pumped into the
 tunnel and it's pressure to the square
 inch is so great as to prevent t.e
 arched ceilings from falling in on
 them. The men enter a boiler door
 apartment which is closed and the
 other opened and they work one hour
 then come out.
 The project will b.s completed by
 May 1st and one of the banner pro
 jects of the century will have been
 completed
 Yuma Valley win get water for its
 l25,0O0 acres Of land and it's propsr- ty value will be increased by one half in three years time and Yuma, now a city of 5000 people, will be doubled in population in less time than named above.
 It's winter climate is the best also. lutely and above all others the finest in America, and never like to leave t for it holds me in spell that can never explain, and yet never feel will ing to break
 The lands in this valley are rich with centuries of silt for our govern ment report says the water at one wet ting of a half foot of water to the acre has a value of S3.5O px acre.
 The 160 acre valley farms will now be cut into 20, 30 and 40 acre tracts and will hereafter be = hive of indus try and thrift. Arizona is th~d on the list of western states in the percent, age of development for some years past; and with new statehood will rank with any of them in thrift and prosperity for their men and women are made up of the kind of material that counts for all that is noble, 2c- tive and aggressive. and they are pio- neers, and these hardy independeut people never heard of such a word as fail Los Angeles is the nearest large city to this valley and for many years past its wholesale houses have sold to the Yuma merchants the goods that go out over this big farming country On my way here l stopped of for three days at Los Angeles and on it's street ! elbowed men and women rom every state in the union l vis- lied more than a dozen suburbs and was so pleased at the Edens that ! could hardly pick a place to live. In Nerdugo valley, a new suburb is the picture spot Of all that touches the sublime in nature. Four miles long and one 10 three miles wide, circled by an amphitheatre of hills, silhouet ted out against the blue sky. ten miles from the heart of Los Angeles by trolley. away from the noise of the city. l went out to see 1t because of an artic 3 by Poet Joaquin Miller in one of the magazines which I read two years ago, Picturesque in it's dress of big farms, small farms, acre farms, lots and sequestered homes, where the sunshine pours it's beam of smiles into every window every day of the year.
 Here is the land system worked into 9 republic, the men and women in this valley will own their homes, their own water, their own gas and their own water works, the same men who are now at the head O. them are the same ! people who settled up nine other col1 onies in California all were a success. ! Not often do We find the courage Of ] in the newspaper world, !, but i was told by more than a dozen ! people that the editor of the Fruit 1 W orld of DoS AEsales is the real | genius of this system of colonizing. 1
 Henry George is outdone, for his 1 books are theory. but the editor of 1 the Fruit World is the only one I ever heard of that put them into prac- ! tice and made business success of | il. l have gone over nearly every one l os their big colonies and they are | young empires and are going forward I with a sweep. In the near future l | intend to send out letter through | the press giving full details of the l. most unique remarkable institution ip | America.