Arizona State Miner

According to the dispatches received Monday, the final control of Verde river development now passes into the hands of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association. The full development of the potential irrigation and power of this river means much in the plans of a Greater Phoenix. Paradise and Deer Valleys will presently be noted throughout the country, small as they are. Some of the most beautiful vistas are to be found in them. The soil is unsurpassingly fertile. Some of the best citrus fruit of the world will be raised in these two valleys.

An interesting feature of the development of the Verde river district is the possibility of bringing water from the Colorado river through a short tunnel down the Verde river. Engineers have given considerable thought to this plan and some of the best of them have declared the plan not only feasible, but the least expensive of any gravity plan yet proposed to water the largest possible Arizona acreage by gravity.

It is not at all impossible that the waters of the Colorado will yet roll down the Verde past Phoenix and water by gravity all of the several millions of acres lying along the lower Gila river as far as Yuma, Wickenburg, Parker and Casa Grande.--Arizona Gazette.