Arizona republican., 1919-08-11
MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST II. 1919
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the per petration of a single crime?
 -Juvenal.
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The place of every in Phoenix who can be there should be Florence to join in boosting for the San Carlos reservior.
 The interest of Phoenix in the reclamation of the vast fertile area about Florence and Casa Grande is only little less than that of Florence and Casa Grande and the the agricultural empire of which we are a part be extended the better it will be for all-the better will be our markets the better our towns and the higher the value of lands
 Our chief interest in the reclamation and de- veiopment of that great region does not lie in the fact as many of us suppose that 1t will be "tribu- tary" this valley because the valley will be the outlet of it. That perhaps is only temporary position have held. It may be that time the products of the valley will pass through that country; that it will be of the outlets of the Salt River Valley and the outlets have, the advantageous will be position. The reasopS SWSy We are interested in agricultural devel- opment in Pinal is the reason why should like to have an extension the irrigated lands under project
 Our interests and those of the people in the F7orence-Casa Gran6e country were not always in harmony. They conf1icted sharply in the matter of a location of a reservoir. There was the San Car los site and the Tonto Basin site. The people of Pinal believed they had prior claim but the Salt
 
 year start in development.
 Nothing should be left undons to secure ths building of the San Carlos reservoir. We owe 1t to the people of Pinal and ourselves it.
 There was time perhaps when every farmer in the River Valley believed that every other farmer was his competitor; that the alfalfa raised in the neighborhood, the harder it would be for him to sell his alfalfa There farmers who looked askance at development of the desert adjoining the valley then cultivated the business of farming, it appeared to them. was being overdone, their rights were being curtaTed by foolish and adventurous newcomers It took some of them years 10 understand that these newcomers broadening markets building up the and increasing the prosperity Of the whole community.
 We believe the time will come when Ariaonas chief industry will be agriculture It will of course, be a long time before the mining industry will fall into second place and when it does it will not be because of decrease of its own importance les sening of it's production but because of the exten- sion of the agricultural into regions which it is now thought can never be cultivated
 We are already raising bounteous crops on land that twenty-five years ago supposed to be worthless We have lands worth s2OO ar that twenty years ago could not have been sold that many cents.
 But there not among them the lands under the proposed San Carlos project Their fertility recognized as soon white them. It known that they needed only the touch of water and there has been constant hope from year to year that that touch would be applied.
 That hope should be no longer deferred. Let the people of the Salt River valley join to bring it to realization as if it were their own.