The Holbrook news., 1915-01-01
HUGE TRACT
 TO BE SOLD
Half Million Acres of Farming,
 Range and Timber Land.

uur1ng the epocnal year that lE
 about to break announcement wal
 made yesterday that one of the
 largest undivided holdings of Ari-
 zona, comprising 561, 900 acres ir
 a solid body in the northeastern
 part of that State, owned by the
 Aztec Land and Cattle Company
 is at once to be subdiyided into
 tracts of varying sizes and placed
 upon the market. The details of
 the huge land project are made
 public by Edward M. Fowler of
 Edward M. Fowler 6 Co. of this
 city, who will act as managing
 agents for the property.
 The tract is only one of the
 holdings of the big land and cat
 tie concern, which possesses in
 all around 1, ,OOO, GOO acres in Ari-
 zona. It lies south of the main
 line of the Santa Fe, touching
 the railway for thirtyfive miles
 and being remote from it only by
 from one to five miles for twenty five miles more along its northern
 boundary. The property is for ty miles across from north tosouth by an average of sixty miles from east to west. It lies about sixty miles west of the New Mexico lIne. It is bordered on the south by the SitGreayes National For est, which was formerly part of it. The Little Colorado River flows along the northern edge of the tract for forty miles, two of it's tributaries. Clear Creek and Chevlo Creek, Iying entirely within the property.
 The company IS composed of eastern men and is headed byl Jesse Seligman of New York City Harry Warren, one of the best known cattle men in Arizona, is resident manager, secretary and treasurer. In addition to various individuals, the Santa Fe Rail- way Company is a stockholder.
 The land has an interesting his tory, having originally consti- 5uted a portion of the government grants to the old Atlantic and Pacific Railway. which, with it's right of ways, land concessions, stock and general business was taken over by the Santa Fe when that system struck out from Santa Fe, N. M.. for the coast. In the various property adjustments growing out of this transaction the present owners acquired possession ot the ands of which the enormous z holding that is now about to be I ut up for development purposes 2 vas a part. c
 Uutil five years ago no serious C ,ffort was made by the owners o develop the property for any, c hing but range purposes. As a ( :attle ranch under the manage T nent of MT. Warren it was long fe amous, but it's agricultural pos | like those of mostNorth- r .rn Arizona territory. were lost 0 fight of or ignored in the rush for t he suddenly uncovered resources
 if Southern Arizona. The first ? .fforts of the Santa Fe to obtain s water along it's right of way at c he northern edge of the propery T were disappointing and the rail- I way was satisfied to get even 7 nough flow to supply it's engines ' with steam. This was before the
 lay of scientific water develop s nent. :
 This impression as to the worth . essness of the land was a bit O vercome by the results of bor- a ngs at the site of the present T own of Holbrook, where a sur < rising supply of underground f 7ater was discovered. Even after O his success, however, it was 8 lose to twenty years before real a