Arizona republican., 1919-02-08

spent to locate the water strata that contribute your water mines" Don't delay that work. Do it as fast as It can be prosecuted with liberal eXpendi- ture. You cannot afford to delay. By going at the problem in a big way and in dead earnest, you can lower the water table by pumping wherever if needs to De lowered. and keep it down and you can also develop your water reserves so that the water supply of the valley that is tributary to Phoenix will be the most stable and certain of any water supply in the world. You can hardly realize what that means as an inducement to investors and a foun- dation for a great, permanent develop ment"
 The need for a comprehensive plan for thus stabilizing the water supply was very strongly urged by MT. Max well. He said there are two great thoughts that he wanted everyone present to carry away in their minds, deeply and clearly impressed in them: First. the stupendous value of the water mine" under the lands in the Roosevelt system.
 Second, that the water problem of today is just as much a problem of water conservation as it was in the campaign for the construction of the Roosevelt dam.
 'In the first campaign he said, the object was to conserve the sur | face supplies; in this second campaign | the object is to conserve the under 1 ground waters that have already ac- cumulated in your underground reser- | Voir-your water mines"
 Mr. Maxwell divided the problem of Arizona's development through water utilization into three fields:
 First, the lands to be reclaimed where specific tracts of lands can be charged with the cost of reclamation as provided in the United States recla- nation act. This includes all contem- plated projects under the proposed plan for retaining lands for farms for soldiers.
 Second, the Newlands River recla- nation plan under which the flow o1 the streams and rivers would be regu lated and standardized so they would flow an even volume of water through out the year. but the cost of this woili not to be charged to any specific lard
 Third, the great dams and canals too big for either of the above classes of projects and which could only he built by a construction army such as that advocated in MT, Maxwell's book Our National Defense, the Patriotism of Peace"
 Mr. Maxwell said that under the first class. the Tonto site had offered the best location for a great object lesson or demonstration, hence the Roosevelt dam was built
 Under the second class of projects
 the Gila river offers the best opportun- ity for demonstration.
 Under the third class, the Colorado
 river offers the greatest opportunity
 for demonstration.
 The whole address was packed witt
 striking facts, interesting history ant
 novel suggestions. The speaker briefly
 sketched The Story of the Struggle
 that resulted in the passage of tn, , United States reclamation act in 1902
 Arizona, he said, had always been il the forefront from the Phoenix irriga tlon congress in 1896 to the passag, of the law in 1902. He mentioned Col
 James H. McClintock, Col William A , Glassfofd, X. c. Utly and Bucky O'Nei . as members of the Phoenix irrigation , congress. Max Salzman of Williams as one of the first western merchant and A. c. Bartlett of Hubbard Spence
 X Bartlett of Chicago as one of tn , first eastern merchants to get benin,
 the movement, and Dwight B. Hear, hlnd B. A. Fowler of Phoenix as anon, the most stalwart of the early fighter For the reclamation act which wa . finally passed in 1902.
 After the close of MT. MaxweIPs ad uress, resolution was adopted pro viding for another address from tn same speaker at a luncheon of tn,
 Rotary club in the near future. Next Tuesday, the eleventh of Feb ruary, MT. Maxwell will speak at tn
 regular weekly meeting of the Kiwani
 club, and on Wednesday, the followin: day, he will address the convention O Arlzona cattle growers association il the American theater in Phoenix. HAVE YOU SECURED YOITT
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