New Britain herald., 1923-03-30
PLAN SEAPORT FOR | AN INLAND STATE
Resolution From Arizona Provides
 Addition Of Small Piece of Land

i Washington. D. C., March 30. -
 ''The 'Ararat of a strictly American 'Noah,' real communist inhabitants, a huge lava flow, and salt and sand suf- ficient to cure most of the worlds fish and to keep all it's builders and glass factories busy''-these. says a bulletin issued by the National Geo. graphic society, arc some of tho by products. valuable and otherwise. that the United States would acquire if 1t successfully acted on a recently re- ported resolution of the Arizona house of representatives. The resolution seeks to add to tho state a small tri- angle 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 America. The map shows that while the southern boundary of the state extends due west for space from the southwest ern corner of New Mexico, 1t then strikes northwestward at very slight angle. The resolution seeks an ar engagement 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 tri- angular area that would be added to the state would be about 240 miles long by about 50 miles wide at the point of greatest breadth.
 Bottled Up
 "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 it to Arizona, and overnight the state would desert the 27 inland commonwealths and join the 21 that border on salt water. With it's hundreds of thousands of tons of minerals to ship, the state is now bottled up by a narrow region and little likely to be de- veloped by it's present owner. It is felt that even the desolate, practical ly trailless desert, and the lack of na- tura horbors on the gulf would not deter Yankee enterprise and Yankee engineering ability from laying down 3 trail of steel and constructing quayc or piers at which ocean steamers would soon be loading, furnishing the cheap transportation that bulky products demand
 'The areas of most states are well known, even the parts sparsely popu- ated. It is hard for dwellers in many other portions of the United States to realize, therefore, that not only is this triangle of Mexico terra incognita, | put that the portion of Arizona which | adjoins it is almost equally so. Most of the region south of the Southern Pacific railroad may be thought of as l desert on which small broken rocky 'anges of mountains have been super In the valleys between the ,raggy mountains are numerous patches of fertile soil, but little rain 'alls and there are practically no run hing streams-only dry stream beds which now and then carry water for few hours until it is lost in the sand md a very few water holes.
 Uncle Sam'S Communists
 Both north and south of the bor- Ter. this region is given over almost wholly to a handful of Papago h. Hans with communistic customs who 'ange as freely as did their remote needing to give in their lesolate homeland, little or no thought