Tombstone epitaph., 1919-06-15
UNDERGROUND WAvEN STORAGE MAY solvE
 BIC FLOOD PRosleA

sAAi@ohe thut ~Ays anu mcdus htShi be found for saving for beneficial use every drop of flood water ,ha; now goes to waste in the state, often leaving devastation in its wake. The building of the Roosevelt reservoir was 2 great stride in that direction. bu; not another such a reservoir site exists in Arizona. and for many years it seemed as though this dream Of the builders might never be fulfilled.
 Within the last few years, however great strides have been made in the science of husbanding water. and il has been found by actual experience, that in many respects underground storage may be even more economical = and effective than surface storage. h southern California. where no large surface storage reservoirs exis3 underground storage has been deyel- oped in many localities and its bene- fits thoroughly proven
 No; long ago George Otis Smith, the director of the United States geolosi- cal survey made the remark: We used ;o think We had to find basin in the moan tains in which we. could store the water on the surface in reservoir abo,e the ground. Now we know that VIC can. make a storage reserrai- of the mountain itself, in many cases. and thereby vastly in crease the possibilities of water con serrarinn''
 In many European countries these yons by building storage works 10 slow up the run of, have been thor oughly tried out and proved success flu, stopping floods st the same time. The Olmstead report on flood con trol on the Gila river adopts this the year the work of organization in behalf of the adoption of that report and the construction of the retarda- tion works il recommends has been steadily going forward from one sue cess to another
 George II. Maxwell returned 10 Phoenix yesterday after a month spent in the Gila and San Simon valleys and Clifton organizing these localities for cooperation with the entire state of Arizona and with the nation to hiring about the adoption in a large way of this entire plan for under ground water storage in Arizona, coupling flood prevention and protec- ton with water conservation for the irrigation on arid lands. Mir. Max well is even more enthusiastic and con fident than when he left Phoenix, that we are on the threshold of an i'm mense enlargement of the rcclama- tton resources of Arizona though the adoption of the Olmstead and New lands plans for conserving a stupend ous volume Of flood water that viii otherwise continue forever to go 10 waste.
 There is no given area in the world where there is such an enor- mous waste of resources as in Ari- zona. where enough flood water runs To waste to irrigate more than 2.0O0.- 009 acres Of land now entirely unpro- ductire- Suppose the average an- nual product Of this land were only S109 an acre, gross. it would turn s.so. .e0a.ese year into the channels of trade in this state, and from thence it would find its way into the national channels
 Tn these days when reconstruction is in the air this huge resource mus; not be neglected, and it will not be if the people of Arizona will take ad- vantage of the opportunity and bring the proposition to the attention Of the people of the United States as ef- feciveiy as the idea of national irri- gation was brought 10 their attention 20 years ago by the national reclam- ation association"
 IL will provide vast surplus of food water that can be used to replenish the underground supplies of the Casa Grande and Maricopa country, and make it possible to standardize ihe