The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-18
ARIZONA WOULD ADD
 TRIANGLE OF DESERT TO REACH TIDEWATER
Little Patch of Mexico One of Most DesoIate Places on
 the Continent

W WASHINGTON, March l1.-- The 'Ararat' of strictly American Noah real communist inhabitants, . huge lava flow, and salt and sand sufficient to cure most of the worlds fish and to keep all it's builders and glass factories busy"-theSe. says d bulletin issued by the National Geo. graphic society. are some of the by products, valuable and otherwise, that the United States would ac- quire if it successfully acted on a recently reported resolution of the Arizona house of representatives The resolution seeks to add to the state small triangle of northern Mexico
 Tt Is for quite different reason. however, continues the bulletin, that Arizona desires what might be called this second Gadsden purchase of one of the most desolate and least-known regions of North Amer ica. The map shows that while the southern boundary of thc state ex- tends due west for space from the southwest corner of New Mexico, it then strikes northwestward at very sligh. angle. The resolution seeks an arrangement with Mexico by which this bend in the southern boundary of the state would be eliminated so that the line would continue as it started. in a due east and west direction. The triangular aiea that would be added to the state would be about 24o miles long by about 90 ;ailes wide at the point of greatest breadth.
 Bottled Up In Narrew Strip.
 The important consideration is that this long narrow triangle is all that separates Arizona from the sea- the Gulf of California. huge arm of the Pacific. Add 1t to Arizona, and overnight the state would desert the 27 inland commonwealths and join the 2l that border on sal. water. With it's hundreds of thousands of tons of minerals to ship. the state is now bottled up by narrow region urdeveloped and little likely to be developed by its present owner. It is felt that even the desolate. pFacti- eally trailless desert, and the lack e natural harburs on the gulf would not deter Yankee enterprise and Yankee engineering ability from lay ing down q trail O. steel and con structing quays or piers at which ocean steamers would soon be load ias. furnishing the cheap transpor- tation tliat bulky products demand
 Uncle sam's Ccmmu aists.
 Both north and south of the bor- der. this region is given over almost wholly to a handful of Papago In- dlans with communistic customs who range as freely as did their remote ancestors, needing to give in their desolate homeland, little or no thought to border-lines or to the governmental machinery of states and nations. The region-both American and Mexican-is known roughly as 'Papagueria.' and is sell don. traversed by white men.
 Through it the international boundary extends, the ultimate in arbitrary lines. 3werving neither to the fright nor to the left 1t extends, q straight. geometrical line, running up sheer cliffs and over craggy peaks, hurdlng great valleys and tiny arroyos, crossing deserts. lava flows. and sand dunes. until 1t strikes the Colorado river some 1o miles below Yuma. Aud 1t IS iinasi- nary as we'll as arbitrary. Little monuments from three ,o Tive miles apart mark it's rragress. ou. thaso are often obscured; and the Indians and the occasional whi-e CT Mexican travellers, may. and do c--ss and re- cross 1t frequently without knowing it's location. and with no guards or officials to question them.