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Title: Arizona, the wonderland; the history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker. By George Wharton James. With a map and sixty plates, of which twelve are in colour
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d to make a thorough reconnaissance ofthe country to find out whether water could be foundfor all the irrigation needs. Investigation revealed thatthe Santa Cruz River has its source in the HuachucaMountains in southeastern Arizona, about one hundredand thirty miles from Tucson, flowing west and north-west down the Santa Cruz Valley by way of Tucson,emptying into the Gila River as an underground stream.The different ranges of mountains on either side of thevalley average about nine thousand feet in height, beingcovered with snow during the winter months. Themountains and the adjacent plateaus form the drainagearea of the Santa Cruz River. The annual rainfall inthe valley is from twelve to twenty inches, and the rain-fall in the high mountains on either side of the valleyruns up to over forty inches annually, which drains downand stores into the underground strata of the valley.This large drainage area is constantly replenishing thesupply. Electric Pumping Station near Tucson, Arizona.
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The Tucson Farms 313 This valley presents a very unusual condition, as theunderground gravels are all river or water worn andvery open. By actual tests it is proven that the waterin this gravel travels from five to seven hundred feet aday, thus producing the condition that these undergroundgravels absorb a very large percentage of all the floodwaters, rain and snowfall from the surrounding moun-tains, and carry them underground. Therefore, the en-tire Santa Cruz Valley is a natural underground storagereservoir, the waters percolating through the under-ground strata and being conserved by this slow process. The conditions were so unusual that the Chief En-gineer of the United States Reclamation Service was ledto give attention to them, and his assistants aided thecompanys engineers in their investigations, upon whichover $30,000 was expended. These fully satisfied allthe most exacting demands, and now, knowing for asurety that they had a permanent and constant watersupply, they constru

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