ry ————— OUR HOME TOWN. A Department Devoted to Village Betterment, RICHARD HAMILTON BYRD, members of Civic and Local life, for home employment 7 columns, The editor of this department desires to keep in touch with the active Improvement Associations, and ey ery one interested in the improvement, protection and npbuilding of rural village What is being done in your town to encourage small industries and What is doing along the line of street ment and the beautifying of private lawns, roadways and public Are your local merchants receiving the support of the local trade # Experience, plans, suggestions and PRotographs will be weldomed by the editor of this department and so far as poss improve- parkas? ble given place in these AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A SMALL FARMS ON THE DEEP ALLUVIAL SOIL OF WHERE SU! MARKET GARDEN HOME. THE SOUTH-WEST SHINE AND ABUNDANT WATER PRODUCE MARVELOUS YIELDS, Expert Truck Gardeners, Growers of Berries and Small Fruits, and Poultry Raisers are Invited to Form the First Homecrotters’ Village in the Salt Down in the historic Southwest, that portien of the American continent whose ancient civilization antedates, possibly, that of even old Egypt, a wonderful work of transformation is going on, The magic of irrigation is again making pom the wonderfully fert zona, which in great and a dense population The most singie ince of this development seen in the warm and sunny the Salt River, where by me irrigation » city of FPhoen arisen, and Is goon destined to one of the large west through enormous Tonto Basm Re A Homecrofters™ Villa; ing formed near Phoenix growth of and « ideas, 1. That the shonld irrigate he swamps to ore to get 1 only sut Outskirts of Phoenix, ages gone by cities inst thie constructi ombine national men want cupy and use with his own 2. That homes should rganizat for ti inization wer n turn planned | ar formed reorge HL. Maxwell, The first ide out through TT National rris on AE which conducted a gr national irrigation resu £ I [ actment of the National Irs ition Ad in June, 1903. The second idea was formulated ane put into working operation through the organization of the Rural Settle ments Association. The third idea has in an organization rece ealled the Homecrofters | Sman, an accout gn for been emboxdic BL wi . ' . — CL SSE Md Cal Maxwell was and Is still the active, moving spirit, and who avail themselves of the opportunities he is laboring to create for men of Ate means to get homes on the lam will the benefit of his wide experience, extending over more than fifteen years during which time he | has given the closest study to every | element necessary to the success of the man who makes a home on irri gated land, GREAT IRRIGATION DAM, After the passage of the National Irrigation Act, Mr, Maxwell spent covernl months In the Salh River Val I> alding In the work of organizing th» land owners of that Valley Into an LA 4D) those moder secure River Valley, Arizona, known as the Salt Water UU Association, That Association contracted with the nation | | ¢ A8sociation | \ ulley ROIS al government for the the National Irrigation great Tonto Reservo ng built on S I construetion Act of which Is under the r now Iu iver murder nes outlaws, $ tributary, from a JAH) is frowning can- are at work on This huge above men to dam, se O84 feet the tiver | Tonto | should be so will be developed for use by the resi- dents of the lands irrigated in the Valley below from the reservoir, for pumping water for irrigation and other purposes, ‘The work on this stu pendous government structure is being pushed forward with all practicable haste. It is believed that in less than two years from to-day the water frown the reservoir will be flowing into the canal of the Salt River much less time than that the govern ment will be furnishing electric power for running the pumping plants of the farmers in the valley and furnishing electric power for all the purposes for which power from this source can be used, SMALL More than a year ago Mr. Maxwell conceived the idea that the highest an | best use to which the lands under il great government could be devoted GARDEN FARM TRACTS ) Irrigation system was that they should be subdivided into small tracts fo garden farming, berry culture and t growing of small fruits, other products of intensiy | The raising of poultry | branches would of the most profitable adjuncts of intensively cultivated garden farn In the past this character of land « ture has not heen practicable in Salt River Valley the that at the sea the year | the water was needed, there reservoir, the river was lowest stage, and the supply of the All this w by the construction of the | Reservolr )elleving that the demonstration of the rived from course be because of on of most mg no shortest il be chang Tonto Ba first practi profits to be garden farms of this ol organized as to embo ; foundation, and river level E the os immovable m walls, and become, as gineer's report ates, as and everlasting adjoining ro It wi ate 1 ake, backing the it ver dor 151 wate Lr AN PY hl BB SLT RAR 1 dh, Ing Phoenle time 14 Inr This Inke will hold 18 the 8 million dol gervolr, which has Just been constructed to supply New York City with water, and it will hold more than the great Assounn dam across the Nile. Many of the day Inborers on this work are Apache Indians, now ful remnants of Geronlmo's wild band. 'rotom 1 Roe ! A Power Canal has heen taken ont nhove the reservolr which will carry the water around the monnts'n side above the level of this artificial lake to a point Just helaw the dam. where It will be dropped over In nn water fall 200 feet to the power house In this way, and hy other drops which will be placed In the river and canal system, twenty thousand horse power » } ! | for thq irrigation of allowed to become coowners In it ox. the direction of Mr | Intendent y Ww fied them best : *" Broom qunli Re solution of the perience and wide obse essentift] .elen of con in the making of such he been planned should be n tract, Mr. Maxwell still b the assurance even of water from river and the government and there has put down the juroperty a group of wells, on which a pumping plant will be hese wells have an ply of underground furnish more water problen ents went hw n on constructed inexhaustible sup water which w in| than ean be used | the lands in ques tion, The pumping plant will be or ized as a cooperative water com pany so that each home owner in the tract will have his proportion of owner ship in it, and the furnishing of pumped water to adjoining land may be made a source of substantial profit to those who are so fortunate ag to he co-owners in the plant. None will be those who one of the into which this Rural Rettle Association and will he divided It 12 therefore manifest that the tract of land which Is nhdivided hy the cont acquire tracts ments anh now he'ne Ageocintion Maxwall with Me J. WW. Broomell noting ne oon Syne on the ground following advantages to weekor First : wnt -| i | offers the | the home an melection of the very hoet | [tract of land =o far as amality of the {nnd In concerned [In the Salt River Valley that could he found rich and In | exhaustible alluvial bottom land, pe | | | Valley. In| melons, nn 11 cont Homeerofters' i% one that should interest the busi cullarly adapted so the culture of the crops which yield the highest acreage intensive cultivation, water r prout with pecond, a and best which right in canal will be the Touo from the national government, and still turches COOpPETaLivg Wael UWL dud operate Wie paidpiug Plant. | of A beet sugar fu ¢ 1 addition to the Industries #liey the SLUICE GATE OF THE GOVERNMENT CANAL. OF GENERAL supine ced ight in system in added to by Busin By a Oliaghidily Nation the rghit of every town and villdge wu the country, It will be a demonstration and us working model for the subdivision of land now held in large tracts near every town or village lonto small Garden Howes where the prosperity of the many who will intensively cultivate such stunll garden farms will contribute to tae volume of trade and prosperity the werchuuts of the town aud en ness men especially Re a 2) GEORGE H. MAXWELL, Executive Chairman and General Counsel, irnl Set Association, 1805 sher Bu ling, Chicago, ll. — From Telegrams Letters Extracts and “For your sagacious, persistent, untir- lug sud able cuorts Is ts cause the CoduLry owes you a debt of gratitude,’’ GEORGE F BTONE, Becretary Chicago Beard of ‘i rage, “The citizens of Blilings and Yellowstone County, through the undersigned, lo express to their hearty lations and thanks for yous half of the Irrigation bi denire CONEratu- cliorts iu be Just pussed.’”’ PILLING COMMERCIAL CLUB, you “We realize ability, tact, the dArrigation successful Gate, that it was Industr,; and measure wus conclusion at owing to your teuncity that carried to a Buch an early A. A. BURNHAM, General Nationa) Business ( Becretary Chicago from | tton Movement Ia demanstrated hy the | following extracts | toloernme sent to him after the passage of the National Irrigation Act, INTEREST, The plans for the building of this Village near letters and | ¥ Ithout | success continue Hecretary Los Angeles Chamber of ba helleve would Cnerr tna tions Y George HW had no elncerely Maxwell, we irrigation legislation ** FM, WOOLDRIDGE Agricultural have President Montana Amsoct | ation “We congratulate you on the the National Irrigation RUHL FRANK WI} asage of merce, | victory [world not have heen passed | wntinnnl ara [great results which have track of the the irrigation ng the heartily work yom yery same |} pon have put gratify. MOORE, tective Tarlft 1, more than anyone else, Is due and the glory of this achieve. it will, 1 am send your name future generations as really the of most beneficent measure 1 express te you my delight on re ng the news that the bill had gone £h the House with so large a major ure PARIS GIBSON, United States Sepator for Montana. "Accept hearty congratulations over the ictory won In the passage of the Irriga- then BHI hy the House of Representatives resterday which assures 8 enactment nto a aw To your magnificent general. and indomitable energy and cease persistent labor is doe the glorious which means a new empire an- nexed to the United States of far greater value than our island possessions. Future renerations born in the happy homes your efforts have made possible will rise up te bless and honor your name and memory E. J YOKAM, fecretary Highland Orange Growers’ An sociation oun “Y Mn rion not hesitate ta express my cone that the Nationa! Irrigation Act and that the government would not have In. ngnrated the nations! irrigation policy If ‘t had not heen for your personal work of wennisation and the great campaien of sdneation which youn personally originated snd have so successfully carried forward In saving this 1 fully recognise and scosed ta others who have ted with yon the credit which Is due to them for the boon attained P. RIPLEY, ¥ President The Atchison, Topeka & Sauta Fe Rallway System,
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