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TalxinG about the Butte reser-voir above Florence, reminds us that our own townsman, Dr. A. J. Chandler, has that matter in hand, and it is safe to say that with Dr. Chandler at the bottom of it; tint gigantic enterprise wdl I) ? sooner or later pushed to a successful consummation. He i6 one of the few4men, who allows no obstacle to thwart him ir. his laudable enterprises. The-financial depression which forced so many fiiunciul giants to the bottom of the generalo owreck to rise no more, delayed theW *k ® *Doctor's work, but he has proven himself equal to the emergency andj is on deck, pushing his work with I viui and energy. And it is safe tosay that he will accomplish theButte reservoir project. The project could not be in better hands. And when completed it will be one of the most gigantic irrigition | schemas of the age. It will furnish water for at l«*ast one thousand square miles of as tine land as ever was caressed by plow or a hoe. The reservoir wifi !♦* twenty mil-s lo fourteen wide and two hundred feet deep. The proposition to build this, and the assertion th it it will be built, are not idle dreams. The very best engineering skill that could be found, in the employ of Dr. Oiian llr-r, has thoroughly invest igite I the nutter and report it altogether feasible. It will openup, positively the finest body of%land of t-qu li extent in the American continent.
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Mesa Free Press
Mesa, Arizona, US
Thu, Dec 07, 1893
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