Graham guardian., 1919-06-13

in the last week, his knowledge
was limited to what could be
gathered from printed reports
and maps, supplemented by a
careful study of the country on
both sides of the railroad be-
tween Bowie and Wilcox, and
what can be seen from the rail-
road between Bowie and Solo
monville.
On Saturday, May 30th, Mr..
Maxwell was driven north. from
San Simon to and around Orange
Butte and up the canyon and
over the hill by the old road to
the Sands Goat Ranch, thence
down the canyon to the north
west by the new road from the
goat ranch out into the valley
again and southwest to the Posey
ranch. There the route was re-
versed and turned back to the
northeast again, following the
road leading past the Whitlock
cienega into. the Whitlock valley.
and across the valley toits extreme
southern end. The return route
was by the same road back to
Posey ranch and from there to
the San Simon by the road cross
ing the valley on the west side
of the San Simon wash. I.
On Saturday evening, he ac-
dressed the regular monthly
meeting of the San Simon Far
mers' and Merchants Club, and
on Sunday was driven to the
south, to study the southern end
of the valley. The route taken
led from San Simon south and
around the base of the mountain
and up to the Willie Rose Mine,
right at the base of Cochise
Head. Then back into the val
ley and skirting the base of the
mountains to White Tail canyon,
up the canyon past the Ajax
mine in the Hall place, then back
into the main valley again and
around the edge of the val
ley to the mouth of Cave Creek.
From there up Indian Creek to
Paradise, to the Walker orchard,
and back by the same road to the
mouth of Cave Creek canyon.
From there, Cave Creek was fol-
lowed up as far as the road goes,
above the point where the read
branches off to the cave, and
back out of the canyon by the
same road. Then south around
the base of the Chiricahua mount
aims almost to Rodeo, turning to
the left and taking the Border
land highway down the draw and
over the Lill around to the road
crossing the draw at the Cheno-
with ranch, thence across the
mesa west Of the cienega and
back to San Simon.
Mr.. Maxwell often expressed
his amazement while on this
trip that no. effort should have
been made in the past to sys-
tematically save for use in the
San Simon valley, the food waters
that periodically sweep every
thing before them as they come
in torrential floods from the deep
canyons of this wonderful range
of mountains. He has worked
out complete plan for the sys-
tematic utilization of these wat
ers, which he explained to the
meeting of the Bowie Farmers
and Merchants Club, which he
addressed on Monday evening.
This. plan in nutshell will pro-
vide a system of irrigation ill-
suring annual crops on 200, 0D0
acres in the San Simon valley,
adjacent to Bowie and San Simon,
by using the very same identical
water that if left to follow it's
present rninous trend causes in
calculable damage in the San
Simon and Gila valleys and no
one can estimate the harm it has
done beyond there. The addi-
tional water furnished by the
floods from the San Simon valley
might at some future time fur
nish just the additional peak of
some great food that would go
over the levees that protect the
Imperial valley, and condemn
that valley to submergence and
abandonment by the human race,
unless protective measures are
taken in time.
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