| Show seaport defor inland state arizona wants slice of mexico to gain access to sea for its huge shipments of mine minerals rals babington nAb Ington 1 1 I 11 lie arnout of 0 R strictly ly gotai inh real ci u liuga linn flow kill end malt un giitl to nir cure most of of um vie orl 14 feidi tin nl I 1 to kar nil fill lie its uni 1 iuey 1 aniie a bull bul bulletin litin tin imbed ay iy 1 thu tile ow lelit nn an x imo mio of lie tile I 1 li pro ducts valuable and oll er lat flint tin tile united shafts aci juire if it uan achell fn n it 11 ri resolution of the tile arizona houm of tim rol ullon hek to mid add to the unto mate R bansill tri triangle anile of northern mexico it Is for quite a reason linn evi evir r it the bulletin tint flint arizona desires aliat lint might be mile this hi ilond bonilln Onil ln n of ono one of the desolate and 1 leapt known 1 of north I 1 iho lie cuip alios lint while the auth south im hound nry of the tile state extends luc due nit uit for a space from the south corner of new mexico exico bl it then tribes nt at a very slight angle 1 the resolution seeks an with mexico by which thi this lind bend in the sout bouthern ou thern fiern boundary of the state would be eliminated 0 po o flint the lino line mould continue as it in a due enet enst and wt direction the triangular aren lint flint would be added to the state would be ile about miles lonn long by about 50 miles wide nt at the point polut of greatest breadth bottled up by narrow strip the important consideration in 1 lint flint thin long narrow triangle te to nil that separates arizona from the sea the gulf of california hure arm of the lie Paci add tt it to arizona rind nver overnight the state would dysort the 27 inland commonwealths and join he the 21 that border on enit salt u water ater A ith fin hundreds of thousands 1 toni tons of min to ship the r ante Is now ho ea up by fir a narrow region undeveloped and little likely to be developed by its present owner it Is felt flint even evell the file desolate practically fm desert and the inck lack of natural harbors on the gulf would not deter yankee enterprise and yankee engineering ability from laying down a trail trall of steel and constructing quays or piers nt at which ocean steaben etea mcra would soon be londin loading furnishing the cheap transportation that bulky products demand the areas of moat most states are well known even the parts sparsely populated it Is hard for dwellers dv ellers in many other portions of the united states to realize ther therefore efort that not only Is to this triangle of mexico a terra incognita but that the portion of arizona which adjoins it Is almost equally so most of the region south of the southern cacide railroad may be thought of na as a desert on which email small broken rocky ranges of mountains have been both north and couth south of the bor der this region Is given over oter almost wholly to a handful of papago Ind indians larvi with tommu communistic customs who range jaa las freely as did their remote ancestors needing to give in their desolate homeland little or no thought to bor der tines lines or to the governmental machinery chinery of states and nations the acton gion both american and mexican Is in known roughly as and 1 seldom traversed by white men through rh rough it the international boundary extends the ultimate in arbitrary lines swerving neither ta to the right nor to the left it extends a it geometrical line running up sheer elare and over craggy peeks peaks hurdling great valleys and tiny arrasm crossing deserts lava ian flows and sand land dunes duries until it strikes the colorado river some fifteen miles below yuma indian noah avd wolf and bootie at the no mexican triangle of papa agueda which it Is proposed to add to arizona la Is even a more inhospitable country than the border region la 14 n to tile lie of tho the latter it en I 1 mm m a di 00 80 IT by 40 miles rn P binl 1 by extinct volcanic miter craters nn I 1 nn an indent barp 1 low flow and hun amis of square illies of rival creat towering mail dunes that create a land mi like hint flint of p irta of the sahara Ral inra on the h lickl put inra pa aks of an fn atio tho thi old legends their kl ler brother Itro lher inyim from his hl cask 1 after tile tic deluge 11 and after coating 1 flip world four timpa allo his h in for animals v ni not 1111 n 11 P not that of lie the Ile hebraic brale noah lie at least mana geil to pave a coyote and a betle the formerly epro plind and people living in the and sand lime june region near the lara late fields with headquarters at the lie few small unter holes thia this region Is now practically the Pa living by dry farming and tock stock raising farther mst east and north there Is no cierel knowledge of rood good aburn harbor along the portion of the gulf of california that would he ile included in the proposed triangular addition to arizona but probably there would be little difficulty in con harbor facilities either along abair which would marli mark the bouthern boundary of the addition or northward toward the head of the gulf tile larger and sand donee dunes are 20 mile miles from the shore near the gulf hend bond and rind an equal from the colorado river the most feasible fe elbe route probably would be from the neighborhood of yuma extending roughly parallel to the river |
