PRESCOTT (Ariz.) Oct. 15.--The Wynkoop ranch on Willow Creek is to be acquired at once, under an option of $20,000, taken several months ago, by the Arizona Land and Irrigation Company. It embraces a tract of 900 acres and is almost wholly included in the company's reservoir site, where water is to be stored for the irrigation of 32,000 acres of excellent land lying in Lonesome Valley, north of this city. Land already is being cleared at the lower end of the tract in preparation for construction work upon the main storage dam. F. B. Walker of Chicago, chief engineer of the project, will be on the ground November 1. The reclaimed acreage is peculiarly adapted to apple growing and much of it is to be so utilized. The rainfall is nearly sufficient for agricultural needs and the water storage will be called upon only in times of necessity.
    Extensive improvements now are being made along the Grand Canyon by the Santa Fe Company, which is building a scenic boulevard along the brink of the gorge for a distance of more than twenty miles. West of El Tovar a flow trail is being opened into the depths of the canyon.

    When this is ready, a thirty-two-mile saddle journey will be added to the attractions of the resort, the return to be by the present Bright Angel trail at Tovar. This is to be connected with the new trail along the mesa just above the river, where a rest house is to be established.
    Yesterday Whipple Barracks was visited by Secretary of War Stimson and Chief of Staff Leonard Wood, who are on an inspection trip of southwestern military posts, in pursuance with the agreed plan of consolidating many of the smaller Western commands. They drove across country to Fort Apache from Socorro, N. M., and spent a week around Apache in hunting and fishing. Thereafter a day was spent in the Grand Canyon. Today the party has been in Phoenix, on the way to Fort Huachuca, where work has here commenced on the building of barracks for a full regiment of cavalry. It is understood that Whipple will be retained in the general scheme as a two-battalion infantry post, with, possibly, regimental headquarters. The only question here and at Huachuca lies in the development of a better water supply, a question, however, readily to be solved.

Source:

Unknown, "Arizona, To Store Water for Orchards, Land Company Acquires the Wynkoop Ranch," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Tuesday, 17 October 1911, p. I13.