Arizona republican., 1913-01-20
$. H. Woodruff, New York Constructing En zine r, Visits Salt River Valley and Says it Presents Most Wonderful Prospects
SEEKS TRACTS
 WITHOUT WATER
Hopes to Build Dams, Con- struct Storage Reservoirs and Canals and Civ e Water to Large Undevcl- ODpd Tract of Land

Announcing that he represents New York capitalists ready to invest mil lions in d feasible reclamation project, s. H Woodruff. president of the Woodruff company, constructing engi- neers of New York city, has been spending several days in Arizona in vestigating conditions in the new state with particular reference to the Salt River valley or its immediate vicinity Before leaving for San Francisco on brief business trip Saturday night. NIT. Woodruff announced that he had been from Alberta, Canada, to the Mexican line had visited practically every sec ton of Arizona and that he was con vinCed and ready to report to the New York capitalists that no section he has visited presents the natural advan- tages for such a project as is contem- plated as are to be found in this inn mediate vicinity.
 An engineer of nation wide repute constructor of several gigantic irriga- tior projects and a man informed in matters of the reclamation of arid lands. Mir Woodruff paid casual visits to the various points of interest in this section. Comparing conditions as he finds them. now with those existing upon the occasion of his first visit here six years ago. MT Woodruff did not hesitate to say that d dollar spent here right now in retaining lands not now receiving water will return i hundredfold in the years to come. T have no definite project in view at this time" said Mr. Woodruff but | expect that it is likely that some 1 thing interesting may develop before | very long l do not pretend to be able | to tell at a glance whether a certain section is adaptable to a reclamation project I expect, however. that there arc many people in Arizona who be lieve they have found a district per 1 haps involving many thousands of acres with water available which. if 1 conserved and properly utilized. would make those thousands of acres blossom into life.
 Tt is just such project for which I am looking. My men stand ready. once it is definitely determined that the project is of sufficient magnitude to insure large returns, to put their
 
 sary dams. reservoirs and canals to take care of the largest tract of un- reclaimed land of which they may be- come possessed. We do not wish to have our lands come under a govern ment project, although there is a pos
 sbility that we could handle large
 tracts under the Roosevelt dam, which
 we would subdivide and sell in smaller
 tracts.
 What we really want to do is to se-
 cure a great tract of land not now
 touched by water and after reclaim
 ing it sell it off, in the meantime re-
 taining control of the damste and the ditches. We wish also to be able. in
 this manner, to get away from the
 unit limit fixed by the government on
 lands coming under it's projects. I came to Phoenix and the Salt
 River valley three or four weeks ago : l made this my central starting point l visited almost every section of Ari- zona. but | tell you in all sincerity
 l did not find another section in the
 state which would in any way compare
 with that of this valley. You say that the section has developed and grown phenomenally within the last six or
 seven years. I say that it hasn't be-
 gun to grow and develop. There is a , greater future right here than ever
 one so optimistic as I can foresee. This . is where we want to place our money
 for we know we can get it back with
 interest amounting to many times the
 principal invested
 MT. Woodruff, before starting fol ? San Francisco, said that he would bt $ back in Phoenix within less than two weeks and that then he would gC l about his proposition in a systematic : manner. for he is determined that tn, r millions controlled by the capitalist: | he represents shall be invested in tho
 garden spot of the southwest.