Arizona republican., 1919-06-13
ton to what is already irrigated.
 Would Produce Millions

Estimating the annual gross produc- ton of the land alone at $100 an acre, we would have s200, ,000,000 added every year to our agricultural products in Arizona. but that does not take any ac- count of the enormous value of the power that would be developed, nor of the city population and manufactur- ing industries that would certainly be created as the inevitable result of the reclamation of the land.
 The Arizona resources board will soon be appointed and wiz be an agency of immense helpfulness in this great work. But they cannot do il all when their appropriation is only slO,0Oo year.
 The voluntary creation of a general cooperation committee should be brought about, to get rid of the jeal- ousy between projects, and work out one grand plan which everybody inter- ested in this section of Arizona could get behind. It should include every project on the Gila below the Florence buttes, the entire Maricopa and Casa Grande country, and the Gila Bend project.
 Cost Small to Individual
 In addition, every project on the Hassayampa, the Auga Fria, the New, the Verde and the Salt rivers should be included. Each project should ap- point it's representative on this board
 and these special representatives should be supplemented by an equal number of representative, impartial unprejuudiced, broad minded citizens who would act for the general welfare of the whole region. The committed should elect it's own chairman, secre- tary and executive committee of five. Then the sinAws of war should be provided for the greatest campaign of education ever conducted in the 1 United States. Volunteers should bt enlisted to form groups of citizens who would each subscribe s20 so that the | chairman of each group would guar antee an annual subscription of S12( to this fund. What a trifle it would bt ! for l,500 owners of either a quarter l section or an S0-acre tract to eact | subscribe $20 to create a fund tha
 would add S200 900. 900 annually to tn, gross agricultural production of Ari-
 zona.
 Should Organize Merchants The commercial interests must b, organized also. Every merchant il Arizona should make it his persona business to see 10 it that every travel ing man who enters his store is full, informed as to the way to increase tn business of the concern he represent
 in Arizona tenfold by increasing tn
 population and production of tn
 state to the extent to which it would b increased by the enlargement of tn
 irrigated area to 100000 more acre
 than is irrigated today in all of Ari
 zona. And by correspondence ever.
 firm or mercantile concern or manu
 facturer in the United States who sell
 goods in Arizona should be enlisted i
 the campaign.
 With all the expedition possible,
 bond issue of S5O,000, ,OO0 should be au
 thOrized by Arizona, to be used onl
 from time to time as the national gov
 ernment lays a dollar down besid every dollar that Arizona spends O
 water conservation.
 The Program
 The big end of the problem is, frs to put Colorado river water up to tn 1000 foot contour and put it owe 1,0O0,000 acres in Arizona. The Senti mel reservoir should be filled wheneve needed from the Colorado river. Ant second: To put underground ever drop of cratic water that falls in Ar
 zona in any year, so that the tot;
 water supply of the state should | averaged by 30-year periods, and nt one single drop of water would evt t run to waste from any watershed r Arizona. This necessitates the builc l ing of retardation works, as conten 3 plated in the NeWlands- Olmsted pla 3 on the source streams of every river } the state. The plan of the Olmste . report on the upper tributaries of u 3 Gila should be applied to the entil state. That can only be done by co-ol l eration between the state and the n; . ton, as contemplated in the Nev | lands river regulation amendment | the river and harbor bill of 1917. b get the machinery provided by tn ', measure into operation, it is only ne . essary that President Wilson shou A appoint the commission created T that act of congress.
 I Delay Is Costly
 | But this was not all Mir. Maxwt f said. He told in brief of the histo
 of the present project, and of tl
 problems we are facing now as the T
 suit of short t-sightedness when it w :, put in, and told how to solve them. U He spoke of the results to Arizon II running into all future time, that W result from apathy in the matter . Colorado river development. He to e of the plans that are now on foot tn 5i will, if carried out, deprive this sta u of water worth hundreds of millions I, crops annually. and urged that sor |. concrete movement be gotten und
 way. He characterized the fricti
 and difficulties between sections. b
 tween organizations, between city al U association. as childish and pueri U and advocated the getting together 'C a board that would help to solve ' problems as they arise.
 'u An educational plan of nation
 scope was urged, similar to the car IS paign of education that brought as le result the appropriation for damagi h the Tonta basin and bringing as a T Id suit the wonderful development ! -- have already.
 le Much Enthusiasm l. Questions and answers flew thi 'y and fast Every man leaned forwa l. in his anxiety not to miss a word