Identifier: arizonawonderla00jame (find matches)
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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you, and gleefully points tothe new camp of Oatman, where new millions have beenuncovered within the past few months. Is there not al-lurement in all this — mystery, possibilities, hopes higherthan snow-clad mountain peaks? Then, too, in the scientific and practical developmentof Arizonas water resources for the reclamation of itsarid wastes — is there no fascination here ? I was talk-ing recently to one of the best known irrigation engineersof the United States Reclamation Service. His eyes litup, his face flushed, his words came fluent and eloquent,his gestures became impressive and expressive as hedilated upon the charm and delight of such work. I haveheard great generals dilate upon the pleasure they had inplanning and carrying out a campaign which resulted in glorious victories, but there was nothing like the purefascination experienced as in listening to this engineertell of his planning his campaign of peace and nationaluplift. Then, slowly but surely, to meet and overcome
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The Fascinations of the Land 31 the obstacles in the way of such beneficent development;to see the dam rising higher and higher, day by day, thatis to make a vast reservoir of vivifying water; to see thatwater pouring into canals and laterals and then bubblingand laughing as it flowed forth upon the thirsty land; tosee that same land later, smiling and richly clad in vividpasturage, glorious and fruitful orchards, in the midst ofwhich stand homes of happy, peaceful, and contentedpeople! Oh, surely there is marvellous fascination inwatching the transformation scenes of an arid and desertregion into a cultivated and blossoming land of pros-perity ! These, then, are a few of the fascinations of Arizona,and yet I have not told of its wonderful flowers, its richcollection of birds, its wealth of trees, its peculiar desertlife, its dead volcanoes, meteor mountains, lava flows,snow-clad peaks, its ice-caves, its mountains and can-yon trails. I have said nothing of the fascination manymen are

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