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FLORENCE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1900.
NO. 8.
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A GREAT PROBLEM.
Federal Storage Reservoirs Would Irrigate
the Arid L?nd of the Western
Empire.
From the St. Louis Manufacturer.
The Congress of the United States
will probable be called upon at this
session to settle an important question,
that of irrigation of the arid lands of
the west and jointly to control the over
flow of the valleys of the different rivers.
The two questions, while separate and
distinct in one sense, are iudissolubly
intertwined and must ultimately be
taken as one question.
If the water duriog the wet season
and the season of snow is confined in
the mountains by a system of gor'erii
ment reservoirs, that water can be
utilized for the irrigation of the arid
lands. As it flows through the soil it
will flow back again into the channels
of the streams and be utilized for deep
water in the time of drouth of the
bigger streams.
By confining the water in its rush, it
will aid in preventing overflows of
lands along the large streams. Thus
the storage reservoirs of the moun
tains will serve a triple purpose, that
of Supplying water when needed for
irrigation ; that of overflows at certain
seasons of the year, and adding to the
volume of water in navigable streams
during dry weather.
It the federal government takes up
the question of storage reservoirs and
makes the necessary appropriations for
the beginning of that work, the strain
upon the purse of the American people
will scarcely be felt as the work pro
gresses and is made success.
The results from that work will
so ju pay back into the federal treas
ury, not only the cost of construction
aud operation, but a magnificent profit
thereon, in the way of iucreased re
productions and increased values of
land now worthless.
The western half of the United
Stutes in 1890 had 4,000,OOJ people; the
eastern halt very near 70,000,000. The
western half of the United States, if
properly irrigated through federal con
struction of storage reservoirs, would
furnish comfortable homes and pro
fitable farms to as many people as are
now in the eastern halL-
As that territory is opened up, im
migration of the proper class can be
carried there, Dot so muih from the
Kastern and Central States as- from
foreign countries. Those people will
become Americans. They will add to
the wealth of this country, and while
many of the people of the Eastern and
Central States will move West, others
will take their places.
If the Federal Government constructs
storage reservoirs, the population of
the United States in the next 25 years
can easily be 150,000,000 people, com
fortably homed, prosperous, happy
and contented.
. This work would do more for us in
furnishing a home market, the best of
all markets, thau could possibly be
done through the acquisition of terri
tory, by conquest or purchase, separa
ted from this country by oceans.
The main obstruction to the con
struction of storage reservoirs eomss
in the form of a few men in the Weal
who want the government to cede the
lands of the government to the States,
and who feel that if this can be done,
in a very little while the States can be
induced to cede the' lands to large
private companies, thus the public
domain passes from the people into
the hands of speculators and the great
6cheme of irrigation is set back a half
century, if not totally destroyed.
Private capital, State ' investment,
can never construct a system of storage
reservoirs in the Rocky Mountains.
That must be made a natioual affair.
The land could Dot be bonded to-day for
what it would cost, and if a private
company did this work the land would
be held at such a value when profitable
as to be beyond the reach of the home-
seeker.
A Rival of Colorado.
(From the Denver Mining Record.
In an editorial on the possibilities of
Arizona rivaling Colorado in mineral
production, the San Francisco- Chron
icle says : .
"Arizona is also a neighboring min
ing field of quite as large possibilities
as Colorado ever possessed. The
Apache troubles, which kept the min
ing prospector out of the territory un
til recent years, will never be repeated.
The search for mineral deposits is,
consequently, being vigorously prose
cuted and much capital is being in'
vested-there in the purchase and de
velopment of mining property and in
the erection of suitable reduction
works."
Well, the Mining Record, speaking
entirely for itself, and fn no way ex
cathedra, is prone to 6econd the opin
ions of our' western contemporary at
least in a degree. It is perfectly possi
; ble that some day Arizona may rival
Colorado as a great mineral producing
state. Let the glad day be hastened
Colorado will not regard her southern
neighbor as being in any sense a rival
but a competitor for the houors she
now holds as a producer of gold and
silver. In 1897 Colorado wrested from
California the title of being the lead
iog producer of gold. Colorado has
been the chief silver producer for a
score of years.
Arizona is to-day a sparsely settled
sect on of the country. The entire pop
ulation could be crowded into Kansas
City and still there would be some
room over. Arizona possesses almost
bouud!ets wealth in her, as yet, unde
veloped gold, silver and copper mines
Arizona has hundreds of square miles
of the richest farming land. Arizona
has no unexcelled climate. Uer growth
has been retarded by the domination
of an inferior race of savages for years
and the herdsman and prospector who,
at least in this western country, have
always been the advance agents of a
better civilization, have had a hard
aud dangerous experience. The terrors
of death from murderous marauding
bands of Indians have militated against
the progress of the territory. But now
the monntuins and plains have been
rid of the wild man and the prospec
tor and settler may go where he will
eth with little fear of anyone .molest
ing him if he attends to his own bus
iness. As to the prospects of Arizona be
coming a great producer of the pre
cious metals, there is no reason to be
skeptical. Profligate Nature, who has
scattered ber golden and silver wealth
all through the great mountain chains
which seam the face of Colorado, has
in all probability hot confined her gifts
to territorial boundaries established
by man. State lines and section posts
have never cut much figure in fixing j
the limits of apy mining district, and
the more t hese great western mountain
ranges are explored by the hardy min-1
er and faithful prospector, the more
certain it is demonstrated that the
Rocky Mountain chain is one vast
store house of wealth extending from
where these ranges first take their rise
amid the snows beyond the Arctic cir
cle to where tbey are lost in the south
ern seas that wash under the Antarctic
cirele.
Colorado contains but a patch of
these mountains, Arizona but another.
Colorado has, fortunately for her, re
ceived the uninterrupted attention of
miner and prospector since the days of
the Forty-niners. Her real mining
history begins about 1859, and for
forty years there has been a tireless
army of veterans toiling over the hills
digging her values and compelling the
mountains to yield up their secrets.
Colorado has during those years made,
as a consequence, great "progress in
mining, which is her chief industry.
Nearly all that is latest and best in
mining and all its allied branches is
due to her people. It is no wonder
then that Colorado stands at the head.
Arizona is young. Arizona, how
ever, is being populated by the same
class of men who have made Colorado
what she Is. The western uplands of
America have developed a type of man
hood peculiar to themselves.. It is a
strong, self reliant, brave, fearless
classwhich hesitates to assume no task,
to face no problem. This is the class
which is rapidly going into Arizona
aud in fact all the surrounding states.
The result can be but one way. The
future of Arizona will be much like
that of Colorado and her history writ
ten will be written in the same large,
generous terms of grand accomplish
ment. Colorado welcomes Arizona
and every other state to the race.
Dry amalgamation of gold has long
been "an iridescent dream," the near
est solution of that metallurgical pro
blem having been some time ago
afforded by a London inventor who
contrived a machine consisting of an
iron tube. 4 inches in diameter, bent
into, a spiral form of four turns, with
suitable connections. In the bottom
of each spiral turn eight pounds of
mercury is poured, forming a pool, but
not closing the pipe. A blower is at
tached to one end of the tube, Dear
which is a feeding hopper,- the other
end being connected to a dust settling
chamber. The intention is to blow
the finely crushed and absolutely dry
ore through the spiral and over the
mercury poofs. These latter are dashed
about, and sprayed by the action of
the air current, and the particles of ore
are brought into contact with the
mercury, which amalgamates and re
turns the gold. The gold which, es
capes the pool in the first spiral is
carried along to the second, third and
fourth,, and by the time the ore has
run the gauDtlet of these four, it is
said to have parted with the bulk of
its gold contents. At the end of the
run the mercury is taken out, the
amalgam extracted and -retorted.
Siiues and Minerals..
LAND AND WATER.
National Irrigation Would Not Conflict
With Legitimate Private Water En
terprises. The West would long since have had
working at exmples of national irriga
tion and government construction of
reservoirs, had it not been for western
opposition. This statement has been
made by llydrographer Newell of the
Irrigation branch of the Geological
Survey and by others who have been
connected with irrigation development
surveys, etc., for a long period of
years. It was thought at first that
vast fortunes were to be mide ontof
dam sites, the construction of reser
voirs by private capital and the sell
ing of water-rights to settlors. But the
experiences of the last ten or twe.ve
years have shown tLat private capital
in storage reservoirs is not generally a
good investment. Right here comes
in the question of title to water, and
whether the right to the water should
go with the land. Irrigation invest
ments have provea safe, and moaey
can now be found for investment, only
in project organized as co operative
canal companies, or where the title to
the laud aud. the necessary water i
united while under the water-right
system it is impossible to longer secure
the investment of intelligent capit-tl.
The diffenee between the two plans
is very .clear. Under one, the farmer
owns the land and the company sells
him a water right. This is tiie system
which has almost invariably turned
out disastrously. Under the other
system, the owner of the land also
owns a share in the water prop.'rty, so
that the ownership of land and water
are united. This is the successful
system. So with proper maougeme.it,
the co-operative system can be success
ful as far as it goes; but it is uejessari-
ly limited in extent.
At this point natioual ir.-igatioL
comes in. Some have conceived the
impression that national irrigttioa
contemplates the building or owner
ship by the government of all reservoir
and irrigation works. This is erroneous.
No one proposes such a policy. The
national irrigation movement contem
plates tha construction of reservoirs
etc., by the government, only when
such work is beyond the s-jope of
private enterprise or private capital,
while at the same time national irriga
tion would operate along the same
lines as co-operative irrigation ; that Is,
it would mean land and water owner
ship combined in one, only the water
ownership would be a public instead
of an individual ownership.
An Important Work.
From the Globe Silver Belt.
Engineer Thomas Wiusor, of the
United States geological survey, and
a party of four assistants, arrived from
Riverside yesterday. Their principal
work is to establish altitudes, which is
preliminary to mapping the district.'
The altitude is taken at distances three
miles apart along the public highways
and railroads in the district to be
mapped, and is marked either by iron
posts set iq the ground or by aluminum
plates securely fastened to rocks not
likely to be moved by the action of the
elements.
Mr. Winsor and party established
altitudes between Riverside and Globe.
The highest altitude taken was at the
summit on the Pioneer road, which
was found to be 6153 feet above sea
level.
The altitude of Globe, taken this
morning, was found to be 3525 feet,
and was marked by inserting a circu
lar plate in the wall of the court house
at the southwest corner.
Mr. Winsor's party will be followed
(no definite time being set) by the gov
ernment topographer, who will make
a complete map of the district, which
will be called the .Globe sheet. This
map will be complete in every detail,
showing every road, trail and house,
and the exact contour of the country.
After the mapping of the district a
thorough examination will be made by
government experts of the geological
features, which will be of great value
to the mining industry.
Mr. Windsor and party vyill go from
here to San Carlos, to run levels there
in connection with the proposed storage
Jam which the government has. under
consideration. They will then return
to Riverside to-finish up their work
there, and come back to Globe in about
three weeks.
What is a Feud.
From the Pinokncj vilie (Ky.) Democrat.
Man born in the wilds of Kentucky
is of feud days and full of trouble. He
iisbeth, fiddleth, fusseth and fighteth
all the days of his life. He shunneth
water as a mad dog, and drinlfelh much
whisky. When he desireth to raise
hell he planteth a neighbor, and lo! he
reapeth twenty fold. He ariseth even
from his'cradle and seeks the scalp of
If It wa3 only health, t
m!f?bi let It cling.
But It la cough. One cold
co sooner, passes of? before
mother comes. But it's the
eetne old cough U the time.
- And it's tho ssms! old story,'
too. There i3 first the cold,
then the cough, then jneu
monte or consun.pon wita the
lcr.g sicincse, and lifb tremb
ling in the balance.
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looseaa the grasp of your cough.
The congestion of tbe throat
and tuns is removed ; all in
flammation b subdued; the
parts tre prt perfectly et rest
and tbe cough drops away. It
has no diseased tissues on
br. Ayer s
Cherry Pectoral
Plaster
draTS out Jp.Sismadca cf the
lungs.
Remember w bar 1 JTV)!4!Tprt
meot. i f v.iq bvc any complaint wbai
Cor and desire t!:p best medical advic
you can pov.llily obtain, write L
3otor frt-fliy. Too vill reeelva a
A Idiesa, Lilt. J. C. AVER,
his .grand&ire's eDemy, and briage
home in his carcass the ammuniti
of his neighbor's wife's cousin's uncli
father-in-law, who avengefh the des
Yea, verily, his life is uncertain, a
he knoweth not the hour when he m
be jerked hence.
He goeth forth on a journey "ba
shot," and cometh home on a shutfe
He ariseth in the night to- let the
out of tbe room, an! it taketh nine d
tors three days to pick the bucks!
out cf his person. He goeth forth
joy and gladness, and cometh back
scraps and fragments. He calleth '.
fellow man a liar, and getteth hims
filled with scrap iron even into 1
fourth generation A cyclone blowi
him into the vicinity of his neighbo
wife, and his neighbor's wife's husba
bloweth him into the bosom of Fatl
Abraham before he hath time to
plain. He emptieth a demijohn ii
himself and a shotgun into his eneu
and his enemy's son lieth in wait
election day, and lo! the coroner pic
eth up a forty-acre field to bury t
remains of that man.
Woe is Kentucky !: for her eyes :
red with bad whisky and her soi
stained with the blood of danij
Selah.'
The man who knows it all is the c
who never Icarus anything new. f
is also laboring under a delusion frt
which he should free himself at
earliest opportunity. Usually afte
man has passed forty he has lean
that all knowledge is not locked up
the brain of a single individual. 1
moment a man refuses to be told a
thing, from that moment he ceasei
learn. Even a worse fate than stu
ing still awaits him, for be not o
cuts off all avenues to progress, J
degenerates, aud sinks to dee
depths in ignorance. National
vocale. ;
The rapid growth of business at:
Ray mine , aud at Kelvin makes I
prompt delivery of mail au import
item. There is a serious complain
both camps that letters and papers
delayed an unreasonable time'
route. Tucson Citizen. " j
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xoTEiecnftrnicr tne arawmu
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