PROPOSED PLAT OF RAILROAD 



TOWN. 



BY CHAS. C. CHRISTENSEN. 



Whenever I cross the deserts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona 

 and California and I generally do so once a year I see something 

 else than the white sand and the giant cactus; I see the future farms, 

 gardens and cities; I see the electric cars running; I see the whole 

 landscape brilliantly lighted by electricity; I pass by schools, colleges 

 and churches, and thousands of lovely homes, surrounded by semi- 

 tropical gardens, orange and lemon groves; I see five, ten and twenty 

 acre fruit ranches and extensive alfalfa fields, and through the land- 



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scape I see the silvery shining lines of the life giving irrigation canals 

 and laterals. 



Now we can see all that already in reality in Salt River Valley, 

 Ariz., Southern California and other places, and surely the time is not 

 far away when a mighty army of homeseekers will stream westward 

 to the arid lands, and the cry will not be "Klondyke, Klondyke!" but: 

 "To the desert! To the desert!" and by the magic water the arid 

 lands will be conquered and cultivated. 



