Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-06
onths, with total growth of fifteen

months. with total growth of fifteen feet.
 The government is now engaged on twenty.two irrigation projects and It is no reasonable request that the San Carlos dam make the twenty-third. The Panama canal is now completed at an expense of three hundred mil lion dollars, which. in addition to our reclamation projects has in no wise taxed our resources. The San Carlos project calls for but a small amount of money and yet it would rank as the fourth great irrigation project of the world. the first being the Assouan Dam on the River Nile. the second the Elephant Butte dam in New Mexico and the third the Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River.
 It was the San Carlos project which first led to the passage of the Reclamation act. but the influence or Salt River Valley interests led to the construction of the first dam in that valley. leaving the San Carlos pro ject to later date.
 Senator Marcus A. Smith, of Ari- zona. is chairman of the committee on Public Lands, and is in position to do a splendid work for his constitu- ency as well as for the great cause of national conservation. The equities demand prompt and decisive action. There seems to be no valid rule why the bill soon to be offered by the Ari' zona delegation should not pass at this session of Congress so that work on the dam could begin soon, and the long years of waiting on the part of tho naople of the valley be finally re- warded.
 The benefits of a project of this character are not easily measured by the cold. practical figures of an Army engineer. While ostensibly the dam will provide for 90,000 acres of irri- gation. as a matter of fact 1t will in. directly serve a much larger purpose. The electric power developed by the project will enable those immediately outside of the irrigated district to op' crate pump plants at profit and re- claim from 6O.O00 to 75.000 acres more.
 The immediate effects of an exten- sive irrigated district adjoining a trunk line of railroad like the South ern Pacific. as this project provides, cannot help being beneficial, It will lead to the further development of the state by the accession or people and further development of the state by the accession of people and invest ment of capital. Communities wholly dependent on mining are benefited by any extensive area brought under cul tiyation because of the reduced cost of living provided by the Increased production of agricultural products The Casa Grande Valley under irriga
 ton will connect with the irrigated
 district now developed by the T'ucsor
 Farms Company and afford abou
 eighty miles of continuous agricultul
 al district which cannot fail to I'm
 press favorably the many thousand
 of tourists who annually cross th' state.
 The development Of AriZona IS ye
 in it's infancy. and its future develop
 nient will be largely upon agriculture lines, and in view of the splendid re AID COMMENCED .... .. .. ..... suits which have already followed al : Government reclamation projects. would certainly be a short sighte policy that would deny at this tim , the comparatively small appropriatio - called for by the report of the Gov ernment engineers who have bee sent out for the purpose.
 Following the day with the Bisbe ' Commercial Club, that body last ev' ], ming adopted the following resolution BISBEE. Ariz., March 5, 191 } WHEREAS, The Engineers of th