Arizona sentinel., 1918-01-24
"OUR BELOVED YUMA MESA" NOW IN THE LIME LIGHT-SPECIAL COMMISSION HAS MADE FULL INVESTIGATION OF DETAILED
 SURVEY AND ESTIMATE OF COSTS

The special commission sent here under direction of Di- rector Davis of the Reclamation Service to investigate the proposed plans and estimate of of retaining our be- loved Yuma mesa" has come and gone This commission was headed by other than Chief of Construction E. Weymouth, with Consulting Engineer D. C. Henny as his able and panstakng associate with Project Manager Schlecht the furnish all detailed information who in turn ably assisted by the special engineer for the Mesa J. c. Marzel and s. A. McWlliams The first two named have finished their investigation and have returned to Denver, from which point they submit their report and recommendations the Reclamation Commission at Wash ngton who will make their report to Secretary of interior Frankyn K Lane, who expected accord with the Reclamation Commissions recommendation rea- tive to opening up the mesa.
 Chief Weymouth and Mr. Henny were in Yuma over a week During this time they carefully and fully investgat ed the drainage problem for Yuma Valley as more fully set forth elsewhere in this Then they begun their care Fu and painstaking investigation the feasibility of constructing irrigation works for our beovedYuma mesa
 Project Manager Schlecht and Engineer Marzel had left nothing undone Their maps charts and figures were as complete human hands could make them their estimates Of costs we'll detailed explanation of every kind of material that to be used in the construction works ut down in plain figures Chief Weymouth and Consult ng Engineer Henny could check them up and compute for themselves to whether not the works could be sructed within the estimates made by the local reclamation forces Just what definite conclusion was arrived be stated for this conclusion first be submitted Director Davis and then Secretary Lane before De given publicity.
 There several things to be taken into consideration elave to the immediate reclamation of the lands One of these the present At first glance would that this is almost nsurmounabe objection the open ing up of the this particular time Five million of fighting be the front in this great war, and almost many be held in keep ranks filled to the proper quota would seem that will greatest ingenuity 10 keep this tremendous force in oodsuf and munitions of war and for that reason first
 sight would appear nadvsabe begin the construction of additional reclamation projects when it we'll known that reclamation funds are already exhausted
 This contention can be easily discounted with the knowledge that when put in cultivation our beloved Yuma mesa will furnish oodsuf and cotton in quantity than sufficient offset any expense that may be under gone in retaining those unsurpassed lands The tremen dous drain the wealth of the country in supporting the various of liberty loan bonds must be met by the bone and sinew of the nation-by those who their v ing by the of their brow. In other part of the world can this be earned with less effort than by the reca nation of the mesa lands There isn't day in the year that foodsuf cannot be grown these mesa lands. It is perpetual sprngtme there all the year round far growing season is concerned Two crops of grain be grown there every year. and cotton will grow there all the year round From economical standpoint therefore it
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