The Arizona copper camp., 1919-05-31
PREDICTS MILLION POPULATION
FOR ARIZONA IN NEXT 10 YEARS
Chairman G. M Zander of State Tax Commission After
Comprehensive Survey of State of Arizona Outlines
Resources of This Magnificent Commonwealth


travel over the State of Arizona with
out seeing things, and the more he
travels, the more he Sees" declared
Chairman c. M. Zander of the state
tax commission this week on his re-
turn from. a trip that took him to all
parts of Arizona. Il thoroughly be-
lieve that within fifteen years Arizona
will have population of a million
people.
1T might be generally supposed
that the agricultural development of
this state had about reached it's maxi
mum. In truth, only demonstration
has been made.
-Cochise county has it's Charleston
reservoir, which will conserve water
| sufficient for fifty thousand acres;
| Greenlee county has its reservoir in
| New Mexico on the Gila river, which
will supply forty thousand acres il
Greenlee county; Graham county ha
its Guthrie reservoir, which will sup
ply sixty thousand acres in that coun
| ty; Pinal county has it's San Carlos
reservoir which will supply one hun
| dred eighty thousand acres; Apache
county has its Lyman dam, now un.
der construction, which will develop
/ fifteen thousand acres around St
Johns, and it also has it's Hunts res
ervoir which will develop some thirty
thousand acres adjacent to the town
of Holbrook; Navajo county has it's
Showlow creek, Silver creek, Chevlon
| creek, Jacks canyon and Clear creek,
all of which have reservoir sites which
will contribute to the development Of
land adjacent to the towns of Winslow
and Snowflake, totaling one hundred
| thousand acres; Mohave county, in
| the extreme northwest corner of the
state, has it's reservoir on the Virgin
river which will develop one hundred
| thousand acres of land adjacent to
| the town of Littlefields, part of this
project being now under construction;
| Yavapai county has it's Lake Watson,
created by dam on Granite creek,
which is to be supplemented by other
dams on Willow creek and Lynx
creek, all of which will develop sew
eral thousand acres adjacent to the
town of Jerome Junction; there is
also the Walnut Grove dam and sew
eral other small projects in the coun-
| ty; Yuma county has it's reservoir
site on the Bill Williams which will
develop hundred thousand acres of
land in the northern end of that ,pull-.
| ty; and Maricopa county has it's
Horseshoe dam on the Verde, Frog
Tank, on the Aqua Fria, and the Whit
low on Queen creek. In addition to
all these are innumerable canyons and
waterways all over the state that can
be used in a small way for further
| irrigation. Pumps can be used to sup
plement and reinforce every project
| that | have mentioned, so that every
figure used to indicate acreage is con-
! scrvatiIe. And l have not mentioned
| the Colorado river, an empire in Itself.
All of Arizona drains into the Colo
rado river The next thing this state
should do is to sec to it that Arizona
gets it's share of the watesc of that
river, 6asrl on proporiion contributed
by this state and the state of Cali
fornia.
Dry Farming Resources
'But irrigation is not the only limit
to the agricultural possibilities of the
| state. 1t is now estimated by old
residents of Flagstaff that there are
at least thirty thousand acres around
the San Francisco mountains that will
he successfully farned by dry farm
ing methods in the very near future
and it was not long ago when it was
assumed by these same people that
such thing was impossible. l have
seen alfalfa growing at an altitude
of 900 feet and at an altitude of $500
feet. that had not received any irri-
cation at all, that was more than a
| foot high this spring when the native
grasses were barely starting to grow.
Anyone looking at these fields of al
ialfa would certainly see things. if pos
aGssed of any vision al all 1t is true
they were planted IN low places where
the drainage of the side slopes gave
them an extra amount of water, but
how many low places are there in the
mountains Of Arizona? There is not
single stock range at an elevation
OF live nousan' fe t and up but what
n1s many low Places lat would gov
alfalfa, with a little attention In the
tremendous stretch of Arizona's pine
forest, reaching more than two hun
dred miles in length and an average
Of twenty miles in width, or more,
opportunity awaits on 80 per cent of
the acreage, for the dry farmer who