Arizona republican., 1918-01-03
|. I. SCHADER
 LAUNCHES B|C
 PROJECT HERE

Carl F. Schader known as one of the most successful townsite and land pro- motors in the west, has just closed a contract for the purchase of the controlling interest in the Marinette Canal and Land company and the pur- | chase of $500 acres of land under this new irrigation project.
 It is expected Mr Schader's phe- nominal success of the Calipatria Town and Farms in Imperial Valley during the past four years will be repeated at Marinette, which is located 16 miles from Phoenix, three miles from Peoria and eight miles from Glendale in the heart of the famous fong staple Pima cotton district.
 During the past four months Engi- neer Howard Reed, who was the man. ager of the Roosevelt project for seven 1 years, has been preparing the neces- safy plans for a diversion dam at Picture Rock on the Agua Fria river and headgate, low lift pumping plant on the Agua F'ria,. the rehabilitation of the Old Arizona canal, connecting with the Roosevelt project by means of syphon on the New River, as this new project has two sources of gravity water, to be supplemented by a low lift pumping plant.
 During the past month MT. Code of Quinton, Code & Hill, went over this project and pronounced it feasible and practicable.
 For the past 20 years United States government records of the minimum and maximum discharge of the Agua tria river have been accurately kept. showing unlimited water from the watershed of the Agua Fria river for gravity irrigation of the lands in the project. The United States Weather Bureau has kept a station at Marinette for the past seven years and the rec ords show an average of six degrees warmer than the present grapefruit and orange belt around Phoenix.
 At this time there are 1000 acres of this land in long staple Pima cot ton, selling at "A cents per pound.
 w. $. Montgomery, formerly of Colo rado Springs, now of Phoenix, is as sociated with Mr. Schader in this en- terprise, and MT. R. P. Davie, former ly of Colorado Springs, more recently of Glendale and Phoenix, will be as sociated in the irrigation district, he having some 5000 acres of land. MT. Davie has been experimenting during the past four years with some eight or ten varieties of sugar cane and has successfully grown and matured the Mexican River variety. MT. Davie pro- poses to establish the first and only sugar cane enterprise in the desert district.
 In addition thereto, MT. Davie is the owner of 160 acres of olive, peach and apricot orchard now four years old, which is located on the main line of the Santa Fe Prescott S Phoenix railroad just Is miles from Phoenix. This will become the commercial and civil center of all the territory easterly to Phoenix and westerly to the Hassa- yampa river. giving it an agricultural area of some 60.000 acres to draw from.
 Opening of the campaign of this project will began January 15. There will be established at or near the town cotton ginning and milling company Application has been made for a post office at Marinette and in the mean time the address is Marinette, via Phoenix, Arizona. MT. Davie will es- tablish a cane sugar factory, and under the supervision of an expert horti- culturist the upper portion of the land some 2,500 acres, will be subdivided laid out and planted in grapefruit and other citrus and deciduous fruits.
 Mir. Schader is a great believer ir diversified farming. which is one of the reasons, if not the main reason, fol the phenominal success of Calipatria Town X Farms in Imperial Valley.