The Snowflake herald., 1913-11-14
NORTHERN ARIZONA IS I'M
MENSELY RICH In The
RAW MATERIALS
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In the Arizona Magazine, DR..
Haskitt has the following to say in
regard to our resources:
THAT part of Mohave county
north of the Grand Canyon is said
to be richly mineralized, but on ac-
count of the lack of transportation
facilities it has remained for the
most part undeveloped.
The great Navajo Indian reser-
walton comprising more than 13, :
900 square miles in northeastern
Arizona, including portions of the
counties of Coconino, Navajo and
Apache is one of the richest por-
tions of the State in naturtal re-
sources.
1t contains a vast acreage of
grazing, farming and timber land
in addition to important copper,
gold, silver and coal deposits of
unusual richness and extent. The
last named is reported to cover
millions of acres and to be an ex-
tension of the Colorado and New
Mexico fields. While this great
reservation is not open to white
occupation the opinion is rapidly
gaining ground that those resou-
rces that the Indians are not ca
pable of turning to account should
be thrown open to the whites un-
der some system that will not
work hardship or an injustice on
the Indians nor dispossess them of
that winch is theirs by right ok
4 heritage. That an impotanS part
of a great state shall lie idle and
unused for purely sentimental rea-
sons that may be held for the red
skins is a policy that most assur-
edly will not long prevail. The
reservation lands should be allot-
ed and the remaining unusued po-
tions thrown open to settlement.
Nowhere perhaps in the whole
United States are there greater
possibilities for the development
of hydro-electric power than in
northern Arizona. In almot every
stream and canyon there are many
places where the flowing waters
in their fall toward the sea can be
harnessed and transformed into
electricity which, when properly
utilized, can be made to do every
kind of labor from the routine du-
ties of the household to the NOV
ing of trains and the operating of
factories, mines and mills. The
latent power of the Colorado
which cuts its way through north
ern Arizona and forms most of the
western boundary line of the state
is said to be sufficient to move the
machinery of the world. More
easily utilized probably is that of
it's smaller continents, the San
Juan, Rio Puerco, Virgin, Bill
Williams Fork, Big Sandyan Lit
tie Colorado rivers and of Kanab
and Cataract creeks all of which
abound in numerous sights where
hydro-electric power can be deve-
loped. The last named Cataract
creek, contains four important
falls which collectively are said to
be capable of producing from ten
to twelve thousand horse power.
1t is only when looking for
ward to the fruitful years when
the rivers shall have been har-
messed and their power trans
ported by means of wire to the
mineralized hills which un-
der the magic touch shall be
made to give up their treasure;
when the forests shall have been
harvested; when the valleys and
plains susceptible of irrigation
through pumping or the impound-
ing of flood waters along the
streams shall have been success
+ fully reclaimed, or scientifically
dry farmed; when the grazing
areas shall be made to produce
to the highest point of their eff