Arizona republican., 1914-02-15
WILL EARN NAME
 OF ELECTRIC STATE
All Industries Will Be Run by Power Derived from Rivers and from Flow in the Irrigation Projects of Arizona

Arizona will some day be known as the Electric State it is cleo tricity that will develop the re- sources of Arizona into their full ness" These were the words of George A. Hewitt, editor of Iron Ore of Ishpeming, Michigan, who was recently visitor in Phoenix. Continuing Mr.. Hewitt said: There is much power for Arizona 1 that is going to waste but sometime | it will be conserved and harnessed. utilized, and will be the making of this state. There is the Colorado river, we may expect to see it damned not at merely one point but at half a dozen or more. This will not be for irrigation projects so much as to furnish power for the industries of Arizona. There will be other great irrigation projects. simi- lar to the Salt River project and these will also furnish power. And as the water is run down through ditches it will be harnessed for still other and smaller power industries
 Electricity will run your mines
 your smelters. refineries, pump the
 water from the wells for your farms and ranches. There is no state in
 the union where there are greater opportunities for electrical develop ment.'
 The words of MT. Hewitt give food
 for thought and consideration
 Prophesies that seemed far less like ly to be realized but few years
 since are now realizations. Projects
 that were by no means so feasible
 have been put into operation. The
 transmission of electric power fol
 long distances without material loss
 is a problem that is being giver
 earnest thought and careful study by
 many sciences. Such attendant los:
 in transmission is the one difficulty
 that today retards power transmits
 sion is the one dtuan utnau ntuan,
 sion projects. With it's removal tn, way will be opened for many new Arizona enterprises Even nov power is transmitted from the Cop. per Queen shelter in Douglas nearly
 eighty miles to Fl iTigre where thu
 mines of the Lucky Tiger compan,
 are operated by such power
 Undoubtedly one of the importan
 industries that the Ishpeming edto
 had in mind, since he is much in
 terested in mining, was the estab lishment of copper refineries. Nov
 the matte from the ores mined a
 Jerome, Globe, the Warren distric; Clifton and Morenci, Ray and Hay den, Cananea and the MocteZum; district, is all sent to the easterl seaboard to be refined. It is ther made into copper wire and othe forms of copper only to have tn greater part of such product re
 shipped in the direction from whicl it came as matte, to points west O the Mississippi river. When it i tcOnsidered that from the Dougla smelters alone there will be shippe, to the Atlantic coast this year 250, 00O, 900 pounds. 125,OOO tons, of cop per it is readily seen what an eX penditure for freights is entailed D.
 such procedure, and such shipment
 are but a part of Arizona's grea
 output of copper.
 III High cost of fuel. necessary t
 generate power today, is responsibl for this condition. It is now cheap err to ship the matte some 2500 mile T than 1t could be treated here. bu with cheap power, generated fror | water .that now flows uselessly by if would become cheaper to cree refineries and mills close to tn mines. ], Prophetic vision therefor
 calls up pictures of large and pros porous manufacturing communities
 hives of thriving industry. that fur
 nish2 home markets. close at han | for all that can be raised in the fer | tile agricultural sections of tn state. Mining. manufacturing, agri culture and horticulture progress to
 gether hand in hand, the former fur