Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-03
FAMOUS ENGINEER REPORTS UPON
SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY WATER:
TELLS HOW IT CAN BE BUILT UP

c. 0 Mclean, an eminent engineer
and farmer who is manager of the
Dallas, Texas, branch of the American
Well works and who has no interests
in the Sulphur Springs valley, was
asked some time ago by the Arizona
Edison company to investigate the
Sulphur Springs valley and make a
report to them of the prospects there
Mclean has made his investigation
and filed his report. The report con-
tains nothing new. Everyone who
has ever investigated the Sulphur
Springs valley found out that its
water supply was within any reason
able limits inexhaustible and that it's
soil and climatic conditions are ideal.
However, McLean's report is worth
reading for the reason that without
quibbling over words and without
studying how to veil meanings to
keep from jarring on sensitive feel.
the Sulphur Springs valley has and
of just how it can be made into
money and he as clearly told or VIVA,
it has not and of what it must be
given In that lies the beauty of
the report, which reads as follows
At the request of Mr.. e. j. Condor,
president of the Arizona Edison COM
pany, the writer visited Douglas,
Arizona, and made a trip over the
proposed line extension contemplated
by the above company.
The object of this trip in part
was to familiarize myself as to the
possibility of sufficient water being
found at reasonable depth below
the surface that could be developed
by electrically driven pumping equip
ment installed in properly constructed
wells that would result in an earning
factor for the Arizona Edison COM
pany, should they decide to extend
their tine to the various mining
towns in the vicinity Of Douglas,
Tombstone and Bisbee by so con-
structing their line to, pass through
the various so reported shallow water
belts located between the different
mining towns they intend to reach
and furnish with current.
While the government reports and
maps gave an encouraging outlook,
we decided to make personal in
vestigaHon by going over the route
that had been selected for the line
extension and make an investigation
of our own, thus verifying previous
reports as to the water supply avail
able
In doing this we visited several
wells, both large and small. as to
their depth, size, capacities, methods
of construction and developing.
We found on this investigation tnal
while, the we'll construction and
pumping equipment was crude and
not up to standard, yet the results
obtained were marvellous, and in some
that reason no one should fail 10
see this exhibit, which displays to
as great an advantage as possible the
work that the schools are Going.
No exhibit of school work can give
anything like a full idea of what
the schools teach because the results
Of that are in the minds of the
coming generation, but of everything
that this teaching can cause the child
to produce there will be fine speci-
mems in the display.
Agricultural Exhibit
1t is useless to attempt to describe
the possibilities of the agricultural
exhibit. Last year this exhibit pre-
sented to the world little of every
thing that has ever been grown iii
a temperate climate and many things
that are ordinarily grown in semi
tropical regions. The excellence of
the produce can hardly eb surpassed
this year in the more common crops,
but in some of the more specialized
departments of agriculture there is
promised some startling displays.
AS everyone who attended the fair
last year knows, this county produces
the biggest and best corn, beans,
pumpkins, watermelons, canteloupes,
sweet potatoes, apples, peasr and
peaches of any place in the world
but it is an open wager that every
one who saw the exhibit last year
will see it again this year and will
bring with them any number of people
who would not beNeve that such
things could be grown here.
The growing season this year l,as
not been SO good as it was year
ago, but as all of the farmers who
raise vegetables or melons of any
sort depend on irrigation instead of
rain this matter will mot serve to cut
Gown the excellence of the exhibit,
but will rather make it better, as
the crop so great an amount OF
exactly as requirements dictated with
out a rainfall following Immediately
after an irrigation and thus giving
the crop to great an amount of
moisture all at once.