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tions are staged by first-class stock companies and road 

 troupes. A driving club has been organized and driving 

 exhibitions are held throughout the winter at the splendid 

 mile track at the Arizona Fair Grounds. The climatic con- 

 ditions are exceptionally favorable for fast horses and many 

 fine horses are quartered here during the racing season. 



The Capitol building is a noteworthy sight while the gar- 

 den surrounding it is famed the world over. The handsome 

 and expensive building of the Water Users' Association and 

 the Board of Trade are unique, but the chief and never- 

 failing charm of Phoenix is to be found in its beautiful 

 residence districts evincing in architectural design and in con- 

 struction as well as in landscape setting the acme of re- 

 fined good taste. The dwellings prettily established along 

 the miles of excellent streets, avenues, and boulevards, each 

 in its own large open space, set off with refreshingly green 

 sod with ample and abundant shade from luxuriantly grow- 

 ing trees, and enlivened by the flora growing so abundantly 

 in this climate the year round ; there is no feature so attrac- 

 tive to the traveler and student as the home life of Phoenix 

 destitute of slums and poverty, where health and content- 

 ment, together with the means for supplying the most exact- 

 ing requirements of refined life, make of existence alone, a 

 delight. Beautiful drives over excellent oiled or macadamized 

 roads make this valley the delight of the autoist, horseman 

 and sightseer. The noteworthy scenic attractions in the val- 

 ley and country adjacent thereto are many. 



It will be seen that Phoenix is anything but a frontier 

 town, and to the American cherishing a once popular delusion 

 as to the "West" it may be well to point out that the Salt 

 River Valley has been peopled largely by the very best stock of 

 the East; by people of education and culture, and, in many 

 instances, of wealth, attracted by many considerations. But 

 Phoenix is far from being an "idlers' resort." It is a busy 

 commercial metropolis. The school population is increasing 

 at the rate of 15 per cent per year. Incidentally an apology 

 is due for neglect to refer to the fact that children as well 

 as horses and vegetables thrive wonderfully in the valley with 

 its opportunities for open-air life the year around. 



In 1911, six hundred and ninety new and substantial 

 homes were erected. Five lines of railway, with eleven daily 

 trains, now reach the valley and over 125 miles of new rail- 

 way have been built in Maricopa county in the past four 

 years. In the same period 48 miles of cement sidewalk and 

 one mile of pavement, identical with that of Michigan avenue, 

 Chicago, have been constructed without a cent of bonded in- 

 debtedness. In three years bank deposits have increased 

 from $2,600,000 to $5,365,000. In two years business and 

 public buildings costing over $1,000,000 have been completed 

 and there are today under construction, buildings of this 

 character to cost $500,000, and, at least, 150 new homes. 



Within the "Reservoir District" over $5,250,000 have 

 been expended in school buildings including three modern 

 and well-equipped high schools. These figures tell the story 

 of a growth at once phenomenal and substantial, based upon 

 the intrinsic merit of the surrounding country and its agri- 

 cultural resources, the ultimate of all real progress. 



Inquiries concerning the valley should be addressed to 

 the Secretary of the Board of Trade, Phoenix, Arizona. 



ENCOURAGING WORDS. 



Ft. Sumner, N. M., May 2, 1912. 

 Mr. D. H. Anderson, Publisher, 



IRRIGATION AGE. 



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 Ranch Properties and Irrigated Lands. 



IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE COLUMBIA RIVER. 



Resolutions urging Congress to appropriate $1,000,000 

 a year to complete the Celilo locks in the Columbia River 

 before the formal opening of the Panama Canal, were 

 adopted at a convention at Pasco, Wash., April 15, when 

 the Columbia and Snake Rivers Waterways Association, of 

 Washington, Oregon and Idaho was organized, the next 

 annual convention of which will meet at Lewiston, Idaho, 

 the middle of April, 1913. 



The report of the committee on resolutions was adopted 

 as follows : 



"It is the sense of the meeting that there be free tolls 

 on coast-wise shipping through the Panama Canal. We. 

 urge that Congress appropriate at least $1,000,000 a year to 

 complete the Celilo locks before the Panama Canal is com- 

 pleted; believing that the sum would save the government 

 $750,000 in the cost of the constructon of the Celilo locks 

 and that the Inland Empire would reap immediate benefits 

 from reduced freight rates." 



The committee also urges the vice presidents and di- 

 rectors of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress to 

 vote in favor of Spokane for the 1912 convention, saying 

 that the Northwest is entitled to the meeting and that the 

 members of the committee believe if the next annual con- 

 gress is held in Spokane it would be for the best interest 

 of the country as a whole. 



Speaking of "The Needs of Our Union with Other Sec- 

 tions in Waterway Improvements," Professor Lyman said, 

 among other things, that government engineers had reported 

 it would cost only $17,000,000 to make- the Columbia River 

 navigable from the Canadian border to the Pacific Ocean, 

 whereas the government has already appropriated $67,000,- 

 000 for improvements to the Ohio River and $200,000,000 

 for the Mississippi River. 



Two hundred and fifty-nine thousand, square miles is 

 the drainage area of the Columbia River, according to a 

 bulletin on the surface water resources of the northwestern 

 portion of the United States issued recently by the Geological 

 Survey. The source of the river is in British Columbia and 

 its basin occupies large areas in that province and in the 

 states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. 

 The basin contains several of the highest peaks in America 

 and some of the most fertile valleys in the world. 



The navigable waters of the Columbia River and its 

 tributaries aggregate a length of 2,136 miles. Within the 

 area drained are the largest forests in the world. Agri- 

 culturally the area ranges from the extremely arid region, 

 where irrigation is essential, through the semi-arid country 

 where dry farming and irrigation are practised side by side, 

 to the humid country, which is arid during the summer. 

 Within the drainage basin are at least 33^ per cent of 

 the available water power in the United States, but develop- 

 ment of this resource has scarcely begun. 



Among the tributaries of the Columbia River are Clark 

 F~rk, occupying large areas in Idaho, Montana and British 

 Columbia, and the Snake River, which has its origin in the 

 Yellowstone Park region of Wyoming, traverses the south- 

 ern portion of Idaho and Oregon, and it traverses long 

 distances in the state of Oregon before it finally joins the 

 parent stream. There also is the Spokane River, which 

 joins the Columbia River at the confluence near old Fort 

 Spokane. 



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