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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—the great Coloradoof the West. The water runs through the canyon like a tail race, and will generate millions ofhorsepower, and this power can be used in pumping water onto the uplands. Capital to carry out this immense project is all that is necessary to develop thesemillions of acres. Wallapai Valley is overrun with the canaigre plant, and a factory to extract thetannic acid could be carried on successfully. Another industry that could be carriedon here successfully is the production of cement from the immense gypsum bedsalong the Colorado River, northwest of Kingman. Tanneries could be run success-fully at any of the towns along the line of the railroad. STATEHOOD. Our people are a unit in favor of statehood. In conclusion, I would say to the worker that Mohave County offers an unexcelledfield. In no place is the labor of the farmer, mechanic, or miner better repaid thanhere. There are thousands of mines open to location in our mountains, while ourvallevs are rich and unsettled.
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TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. 331 NAVAJO COUNTY. By Commissioner J. F. Wallace, Winslow. Navajo is the youngest county in the Territory, having been created by an act ofthe eighteenth legislative assembly from the western portion of Apache County,and lies in the northeastern portion of the Territory. It is about 240 miles long,north and south, and about 53 miles wide, east and west, and contains about 10,000square miles, or about one-tenth the total length of the Territory. The countyproper, or that which is outside of Indian reservations, is about 100 miles north andsouth by 53 miles east and west. The Moqui and Navajo Indian reservations coverthe whole of the northern portion of the county, while the southern portion is coveredin part by the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation. The county has a population of about 4,000. Its principal industries are cattleand sheep raising and agriculture. WINSLOW. Winslow, the largest town in the county, has a population of about 1,200. It is apasseng

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