What topic could bring one of every five citizens of Phoenix on a hot August night in 1900 to a meeting in the downtown Dorris Opera House? A guess of gunfighters or lawless renegades is wrong. It was water. The most important commodity in the southwestern desert. Throughout the west, water had quickly become a commodity to fight for and fight over. No where was more aware than Phoenix, which knew it was doomed if it didn't have an assured source of water. All it had right then was the Salt Rive
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