Arizona republican., 1919-02-08

m words Ol what the AGlZODd or the
 future will be; but he proves the future
 by the past in way so convincing
 that no one can hear him without shar-
 ing his optimism.
 He has an advantage over the great
 majority of the Arizonans of today be-
 cause' his memory of Arizona condi- tions, spans a period of close to forty years, and goes back to the golden days of Tombstone when the mines of that once great wealth producer were at the zenith of their produc- tivity. He not only can draw com ' EparsOns in words, but he draws them from memory stored with a fund of interesting incidents and facts, which few possess in these later years.
 He knew Ed. Scheffelin and Richard Glrd and "Si' White and others of the dlscoverers and developers of the Tombstone mines as intimately as he knows many of the Phoenicians of to-
 day who were here in the active years immediately preceding the passage of
 the national reclamation act and the | beginning of construction work on the
 Roosevelt dam.
 This made his comparison between
 the gold mines of Arizona and the
 wf'>cr mines q story of fascinating in- l terest The point on which he dwelt i with greatest earnestneSs was the l temporary character of the produc-
 tiveness of the mines of gold and Nsilver and the permanency of the pro-
 ductiveness of the water mines"
 You have a mine under the city of l Phoenix and in every gravel strata
 underlying the Salt River system under ! the Roosevelt dam of greater value
 today than all the aggregated wealth
 Of all the great mines that made Arr-
 zona famous in the oIden days, men ! toning among others, the Silver King. 1 the Grown King. the Vulture the Tip
 Top, the Peck, the Tiger, the Harqua l Hala and the Tombstone mines
 "The difference" continued the speaker, between the mineral wealth from those gold and silver mines and the wealth from the water mines be-
 ing that once mined out the gold and silver wealth was gone forever from
 the place where it was produced
 whereas the water from the water
 mines under this Salt River system
 will be perpetpally replenished year
 after year, through all the years to
 come. The wealth it creates is an an
 nually recreated wealth that will con-
 tlnue as long as the human race in
 habits this country provided they de-
 NeIop the intelligence necessary to per
 petuate the water supply as it may
 be perpetuated by proper treatment, indefinitely into the future"
 Many instances were given from his own observations and life experiences
 of famous mines that had been worked out, leaving no permanent institu- tons. The men who labored there are dead and gone and their labor left nothing permanent" said the speaker In this class he mentioned the Gold Bluff mines in what was the Klamath county which were discovered by his father in 1850 or 1851: he also referred to the early placer mines of Califor- ma; the early drift mines of that state; and the hydraulic mines, of which nothing remains but the gashes and nnsighuy scars they have left on the face of nature
 But in many places in California; : said Mr. Mi Xwell, the ditches dug by the early placer and hydraulic miners are now being used to irrigate or chards and vineyards from which the annual product is so great that the wealth of the fruit fields due to the water IS greater than the value of the . early gold mine, and will never be worked out as the old mines were" He referred to the fact that the first water case he ever tried as d lawyer was case involving the water right to the old Yeska ditch over 9( miles long. built by the placer miners of the bygonc days 10 mine off the Nseka Flats. Now those flats are worthless piles of gravel. The gold is all gone. But today the same water right and part of the same ditch are
 the source from which a large tract
 of land is irrigated near Gazelle in the Shasta valley, and a permanent source of wealth IS there established
 The relation of the surface reservoir the Roosevelt reservoir-and the underground reservoir of the Salt River system-the water mine" was clearly explained by the speaker. The surface reservoir is your first reserve supply; your water mine" is youl second reserve. In the years to come you will have cycles of dry years wher your surface reservoir supply will fal short of your needs. Then the stu pend0us value of your underground 1 reservoir will become apparent. Bu you should not wait until the day O need to develop your pumping system You cannot see underground. Mucl should be done and much money spen on experimental wells and pumping plants. A man who mines for golt | must spend many d dollar to locate thu d NaiD oy r111Icf money bt