Chapter VII: Japan and the Colorado River Valley 176

Another Japanese Empire could be created in the
Drainage Basin of the Colorado River--What Japanese
would do with that country if it were Japanese
Territory--We waste annually water containing
357,490,000 tons of fertilizing material--5,000,000
acres can be reclaimed between Needles and
Mexico--Every acre would support a family--Climate
makes gardening equivalent to hot house culture out of
doors--Inexhaustible supplies of nitrogen, phosphates,
and potash for fertilizer--Enormous possibilities of
electric power development--Japan would fight the
Desert and Conquest it with same thoroughness that she
fought Russia--Would develop vast Commerce from
Colorado River and Gulf of California--Japanese
Colonization in Mexico--Spirit of Speculation retards
development by United States--What should be done with
the Colorado River Valley--United States must reclaim
and colonize that country the same as Japanese would do
if it belonged to them.