Weekly journal-miner., 1922-02-01
TOWNSHIP IS LOOKED
 OVER BY INVESTOR
Williamson Valley Project Given
 Approval by Oklahoma Finan-
 cier, After Inspection of Land and Corporation Records
(From Thursdays pailv)

gone and it is quiet around the 2,5OO- ! foot long mound of yellow earth that is beginning to assume the form ot dam across Williamson valley. Ac- tivity at tie Sullivan campsite is con fined to contesting over who of the small crew shall respond to the ma tutinal Standardization of the bat tered alarm clock and do things with firewood to raise the morning tenn perature to the more balmy measure of the out of doors The relict of an age-od citizen of the prairies, re- duced now to small heap of crum- bling and bleached bones, lies near the summit of the fill, the only watchman.
 But all activity has not ceased. It has only been transferred to another and more fascinating field of human endeavor. What Bob Caldwell has stopped doing. Homer Wood has taken up. And in short time, there will be a file of carefully drawn maps to testify to the present import aLce of the new townsite that will one day house the inhabitants of the teeming Williamson valley.
 MT. Woods is sad once to have swaycd the destinies of the state; from more or less humble position in the new state administration, he guided policies and made and un made men. Now he guides the des- tines and controls the bubbles of venerable but excellent transit; in heavy corduroys, his hands guarded from the frosts of carly morn and late and dewy eve by woolen mitts without fingers, and his face by a deep tan and a leftover shave, he traipses over the cedar-hills and sets up monuments of white painted red wood with cryptic marks. At times he sets down figures in book, and when anyone is interested in them, he tells how his lines coincide with these of the old government survey ors-not
 But there will be accurate maps and filings. Having found a camp where the eating is one of the mat ters of soicitude on the part Of Billy and Jim and John, Homer is inclined to make the job last There will be accurate maps and filings.
 Townsite Project
 During the winter days when it is not profitable to pour concrete and no fun to stumble after fresnos, Art Davis, manager of the Williamson Valley Farms "project, is turning his attention to the new townsite. In company with a party of interested and attentive investors he went over the piece yesterday. With him were U. J. Hamre, president of the Bank of Arnet, Okla, a winter resident here who has become strongly inter ested both financially and otherwise in the project, and w. J. O'Brien, personal representative of w. L. Street, general manager Of the Snider Preserve company, which is plan ming a 5,000-acre tomato ranch on the project and factory from which it is planned to supply the entire territory west of Denver with catsup.
 MT. Hamre is not new member of the Williamson valley family of enthusiasts. He made an investment in the project and then before in- creasing it considerably, he went to Phoenix, where he said yesterday he had found the affairs of the company in the finest of shape in the records of the corporation commission. Not only that, said Mir Hamre, but the members of the commission had all spoken with the greatest favor about the plan to add 10 Yavapai's arabic land by diverting the flood and nor nal waters of Williamson wash be- fore they actually assume the name of Verde river.
 Need Housing Facilities
 Before any more moves can be made by the industries, now said to be planning more than one enter Trise just to the north of Prescott, it must be assured that there is go ing to be a place where housing ia cilities can be available. So, pending the arrival of working weather and . new deal ill the cement line, Art Davis is turning his big guns on the townsite Homer Wood said last summer that he was going to survey the plat, but ne broke his instrument; now that 1t is nice weather for Eski- mos, he is up against the job of hay ing that there survey finished and darn quick about it. When the maps are completed, and the "corners" are tied down so that they cannot blow away, Davis will begin opening the