The Winslow mail., 1921-04-29
ARIZONA STATE OFFICIALS
GETS BUSY ON WINSLOW
RECLAMATION PROJECT

The project of reclaiming the Win
slow valley took on new life during
the past week This added impetus
came through a visit to Phoenix OF
Judge r. B. Walton, secretary of
the Winslow Chamber of Commerce
where he met Mr.. S. A. Hughes
president of the New Mexico & Ari-
zona Land Company This company
acreage in Winslow valley. Mr..
Hughes has had many years expert
ence in the development of landed
areas and he has become much in
terested in the holdings Of his COM
pany under the Winslow project.
Mr.. Hughes visited in Winslow q
couple of days last week in confer
ence here. He joined Judge Wal
ton at Phoenix where they visited a
number of the state officials who are
interested in the general upbuilding
of the states undeveloped resour-
ceS.
Governor Thomas E. Campbell
has had the matter in mind for some
time and has taken it up by wire
and mail with Washington. Cover
secretary of the Arizona Resources
Board, will be in Washington, D. G..
May Is, at which time they will take
up personally on the part Of the
state of Arizona, the Winslow pro-
ject with the department government
al heads. They will urge the early
activity of the government as the
project is known to be one of the
most feasible in the state and in
consideration Of it's large acreage
engineering features, immediate ac-
ton should be taken to reclaim and
make productive the vast acreage
situated in the valley.
The cooperative agreements be-
tween the state Of Arizona and the
federal government will be taken up
that the soil survey may be COM
pleted and the engineering features
be studied and planned. Besides
taking care Of the present soil sur
vey in the valley, the state has ap-
propriated $4,000 to join with the
federal governments in the further in
vestigation of the project.
At the present time Messrs. Mark
Baldwin and A. T. Strahorn of the
U. S. Bureau of Soils are in the field
making their survey 1t will pro-
badly be a matter of three or four
weeks before they complete the
field work. II will then take thirty
days to compile and write the re-
port. 1t is rather pleasing to know
that these gentlemen have found no
soil conditions averse to produc-
tiveness and that practically every
foot of the entire valley aside from
the stream bed could be made pro-
ductive with the application of wa
ter from the proposed sources of
flow and reserve. With the reser
voirs taking care of the flood waters
and impounding them for period
Of need, the dangers Of the inroadf
of floods will be eliminated. Here
tofore, this uncertain food Of waters
has sometimes washed away acres
of land and converted it's location
into a stream bed, leaving the old
stream bed dry. With the dams and
the conservation of the seasonal
food waters there will be no more
danger from this source.
Mr.. Hughes has gone intelligently
into the matter and has recognized
the greatest prospective value of
this project and will take it before
a meeting Of the directors of his
company to be held shortly in St,
Louis. He will probably also go to
Washington to assist, If possible,
our state officials in obtaining the
federal aid required now.
Probably no one item of news
means so much to Winslow as the
one published herewith. The very
future of the city and it's surround
ing area depend upon the success
full outcome of the efforts that are
now being put. forth and which
have been active in the project for
several years. Credit must be CIV
en- to those who have persistently
followed this project and through
whose optimism and procrastination
there now seems probable some real
activity. With the aid of our re-
representatives. in congress some ac-