Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-29

N~6o~@Ne0A F ts-
 sice-president and treasurer of the Mountain States Telephone and Tel egraph Co, movement will be launched early in May to combine all ot the states in the Rocky Mountain aistrsct in the work of publicity and aeFeiopment5 COnsSessmen and sen ators from the Western States have been taking a great interest in the work, and it is expected the move ment will have the official sanction oi all tie Rocky Mountain delegations in Washington.
 Mir Field will 90 to Washington next month to attempt to interest not only the members of Congress from the West, but also the representa- tives of foreign countries who reside at the capital, in the vast opportunity Tor home-making in the Rocky Noun tain regson- MT. Field has been in- vited to attend a meeting of the West erh-representatiyes and senators in Washington, who have been quick to see the advantage of the plan he has proposed. Following this meeting ln Washington in May there will be meeting probably in Denver, immedi ately afer Congress adiourns, at which the movement will be formally launched. Mir. Field started the movement by a series of letters and he has created great interest.
 T feel that the most important work for the population and develop ment of the Rocky Mountain States can be done in Washington" said Mir. Field. Some of the opportuni- ties to benefit the states of this great region are now ready to be taken advantage of, and no time should be lost. For example, there is the mag nifcens opportunity to attract set tlers to this Western region from the army of men that will have finish ed work on the Panama Canal in a few months from now. Ten thousand men on sn average, have been at work there since the canal was start cd all earning good wages, and all Of hem now in a position where they must soon cast about for new loca- tions They have money enough and are capable enough to be a credit to any country into which they come It is practically certain the East will not attract these men. They haze seen enough of the new country about them 10 want to locate in a now and at least partially undeveloped land The opportunity to attract these men to such states as Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, idaho Arizona, New Mexico and Montana is too great to be lost
 My proposal on this question is that all Rocky Mountain States unite in an effort to bring these 10000 prosper ous successful and competent set tiers within their borders. believe an expenditure of $f0,600 would do lt.
 Already effcrts are icing made by the states on the lower Mississippi River to influence Congress to briug the millions of dollors' worth of giant machinery now in usefon the Panama Canal to the leveas Aalong the law- lands of the great rjyer and utilize it to construct additional leyees as means Of protection against foods. Singular as it may seem, they are trying by this plan to secure prOtec- tion at the wrong end of the line. The cause of the Gooas in the unusual quantity of water from the mountain states brought into the rivers by the melting of the deep snow in the high attitudes. This volume of snow water in the springtime amounts 10 more than all the rainfall that ever reaches season, and the proper remedy for this condition is 10 keep the flood waters in the Rocky Mountain States, where they will benefit instead Of harm. Unless some action is taken by the Rocky Mountain States in Congress. the machinery now in use on tRe great canal will soon be put to work at vast public expense on levse work when it's use constructing irriga- ton reservoirs in the semiarid re- gions would serve a double purpose. !.
 At the same expense the flood wa | ters from the mountains could te 1 in reservoirs and prevent !. ed from reaching the lower AIissis- i ippi until midsummer A million | acres of the richest land in the world . could be turned into homes for pros porous farmers. This plan has been | passed upon favOrably by the >mCst he country, including those in the government service who are engaged h solving problems affecting the aa- 1ual flooding of the lowlauds in the section of the country protected by eVees."