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Section of Public Contract Law, American Bar Association       Volume 27, Number 1, Fall 1991


The Valley of the Sun


Water is a nectar of the heavens. Ours is the only planet
in the solar system with temperatures friendly to water.
The Book of Genesis, with its earth-centered focus, ex-
plains that God made the firmament and separated the
waters on the second day. Evolutionists teach that water
was the womb for life some 3.8 billion years ago and that
for nearly 90 percent of the time since then, our ancestors
lived in the seas. Archeology has shown that several great
river valleys-e.g. the Euphrates, Indus, and Nile-were
cradles of early civilizations.
  Arizona's desert and its Valley of the Sun (Phoenix,
Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, and environs) are living proof
of the miracle of water. Prehistoric Indians of the re-
gion-the pit dwellers and later the builders of pueblos
who flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries-had to
adapt to thirst and scarcity of water. Irrigation was one
response. Remnants remain of a major canal system built
in the Valley of the Sun six plus centuries ago by the
Hohokam Indians. Their name means ones who are
gone. Did they leave because of a devastating drought?
  Phoenix sits astride the Salt River bed near its juncture
with the Lila River. An extensive canal system has been
the well spring for the phenomenal growth of the Valley
of the Sun. The earlier Hohokam system was rediscov-
ered during our Civil War, leading to formation of a
Canal Company. One of its founders, Darrel Duppa, be-
lieved that a metropolis would rise like the mythical
Phoenix bird from the Hohokam ruins. He was correct.
  The Section of Public Contract Law will pitch its tent
for its Fall meeting at the Registry Hotel in Scottsdale,
Arizona. An excellent CLE program addressing The
Government's New Militancy in Federal Procurement


will be presented on Friday, November 1, 1991. The
following day, the Section's Council will meet in open
session under Chief John Pachter. It will address current
issues of the procurement bar. We hope you will join us.
Bring your wampum belt so that you may enjoy an ex-
tremely interesting region.
  Arizona is a relatively recent addition to the United
States. Lands north of the Gila River became our terri-
tory in 1848, under the Treaty of Guadolope Hidalgo.
Lands south of the river were acquired five years later
as part of the Gadsen Purchase. Arizona was admitted
to the Union in 1912, the last of our 48 contiguous con-
tinental states. At the time, it was a raw frontier territory.
Phoenix had a population of 25,000.
  However, by 1900, streams had been diverted to irri-
gate 200,000 acres, and in 1911, the Roosevelt Dam on
the Colorado River had been completed, opening a po-
tential for massive irrigation of Arizona. More recently,
litigation with California has established Arizona's right
to a substantial share of river. The Salt River has been
transformed into a major irrigation project.
  With the flow of water, Arizona has prospered. Phoe-
nix (a capitol city) and the Valley of the Sun have become
a major agriculture, retirement, vacation, and economic
center of a state that offers visitors the Grand Canyon,
an enormous meteor crater, the red rocks of Sedona,
Prescott and old mining sites, Phoenix's Heard Museum,
Tucson and its Desert Museum, a solar telescope, ex-
traordinary scenery, and countless other pleasures. As
you visit these, think about the roles that water has played
in shaping us, our environment and the Valley of the
Sun.


Issue Highlights: New GAO Bid Protest Procedures, page 3, Section Directory, pullout
                                 section, Fall Program, page 20

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