be used in any one year, ^Hiile it takes about 

 over naif or this supply is received from the natural 

 filled, would suffice for about three years supply IT 

 natural sources. 



Tne cost or tne reservoir project about $4,000, 

 without interest, in ten annual instalments beginning 

 acres to be benefited this would make the cost twent 

 district has been withdrawn from entry in connection 

 about 125,000 acres are in cultivation, which will 

 deficiency in tbeir annual supply. Trie remainder of 

 once reclaimed but for which water has been lacki 

 The first object is to protect homes already made, an( 

 reclaimed land to 160 acres or less. Intensive farmir 

 \Vhen the water is supplied to tne soil through 

 then furrows or flooding, tbe question arises, what maj 

 will grow in temperate and semi-tropic regions will 1 

 crop, and with good water conditions five or six crop; 

 two tons to the acre, and the hay in the stack is woi 

 thousands of cattle are driven down from the mountain 

 valley and then sold for beef. Dairying is another 

 into readily marketable products of milch herds. 



-wheat, barley, oats, corn, and sorghum 

 vallev, the farmers excel in special products. Orange 

 be marketed a month earlier 1 

 the finest known in the Eas 

 and, pickled or pressed into oil 

 Apricots, figs, lemons, peaches, 

 berries, watermelons, and can 

 products of the Salt River V 

 the United States Agricultu 

 the success of date culture, an 

 happy result. Conditions ar 

 poultry raiser -who has a nev 



A word about climate 

 winters with their accompan; 

 Maricopa County frost is ra 

 Salt River V alley it is scare. 

 dom in this valley that during 



