Show it coat to bottle up water of tho colorado river for wi gation purposes but alie money pears to have been tt ell spent about acres of dry waste land m the vicinity of yuma arizona will le turned from a region of fruitless barn ness into a watered area of e fertility capable of producing corn cotton cattle or whatever clo cl o may be grown under temperate tropical climate conditions arango cultivation mai possibly be ono of the leading A great tr act of country covered with sand dune and baga bruah 1 the old santa thail ix made to bloom the year round to the coaxing and of distributed colorado refreshment of all the irrigation schemes under taken the aid of the federal KO eminent tans Arizu iiA tunia to prociso the bosit batis biclon return grave engineering problem liao leen in getting the water in tho main canal on the california side of the colorado river across to the arizona side this involve ed the construction of an foot tunnel and carrying the water through a siphon 60 feet ablow the st bed of the river now that the work lias been completed farmer emigrants from all of the country are rapidly buying up the irrigable land the sale of the land and s atar w ill t the federal treasury for the original T outlay the public money liaa eels dom been to better purpose 1 or with encouraging promise of opulent return and continuing fy |