Identifier: annualreportofse973unit (find matches)
Title: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the year ended June 30, 1897
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States Department of the Interior
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175; Ohio, 160; Illinois, 148; Arizona, 195. For thesame school year the average expenditure per pupil was Massachusetts,$33.33; Ohio, $21.47; Illinois, $28.13; Arizona, $31.31. Within the past four years a number of high school districts havebeen organized throughout the Territory, and it is not a vain-gloriousboast to predict that Arizonas public schools will ere many years out-rank those of any other State in the Union. Nor in the matter ofhigher education has Arizona been neglectful. She has a normal schooland a university of the highest type, and both are making rapid stridesforward. The reports of the superintendents of these institutions givenelsewhere describe in detail the work they are doing. To the home-seeker who inquires about her school facilities, Arizona can well say:Gome, we have the best public schools on the continent. IRRIGATION. The prime necessity within Arizona for the past decade—a necessitygrowing yearly more urgent—lies in the inadequacy of the water sup-
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, TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. 223 )>ly for irrigation, as compared with the number of fertile acres lyingunirrigated and unproductive. The remedy lies in water storage, andthrough such storage it is the hope of the people of Arizona that theirlands may soon be redeemed, to their personal profit and to the greaterprosperity of the national body i)olitic. Arizona, it should be paren-thetically explained, is not the country it commonly is reputed else-where. It is not wholly a land of sand and of desert hills, destitute ofwater. Very little of this sort of country is to be (bund within theTerritorys border. What there is that might answer the descriptionlies close to the Mexican border, in the extreme southwestern portion,where within a few years the waters of the Colorado will be diverted togladden the thirsty land. But, generally considered, the Territory maybe divided into two topographical and climatic zones. The dividing line between may be described as commencing in Mo-have County, in

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