Arizona miner., 1867-09-14
PIMAc COUNTY.

TUcsoN DISTRICT Sor DEsEar We have just had a conversation with party of gcn- tlcmcu. who have. within few days Tas'. yisitcd the ranches nf Hon. G. II uuy. Dr. Goodwin and T. K Bradey, Jour -cu'lcmanly sheriff. on tho Rillito. who Yell u, that they have seldom seen finer cfuIs than arc now growing upon thc=e runches
 On that of Dr. Goodwin, a good lest ol ihe fertility of the coil hAs been made, That gen tlesnan planted corn last spring upon land after simply baruing of thc weeds and dig ging holes large enough Co plant sn from that day until the present. not an hour work has been done upon the land, yet he has GEc corn. The season has not been pruVtI0us. as but little rain has fallen; bod there been only ordinary rams the crngs vassa -ass been very large
 On ,hc ranch of Mir Oury. 1n '-aeeq1la has been taken out, but there Aas noi been sufficient water in 1t f1r une irrigation. Ae ei his corn is very fine
 ! On tue ranch of Mir Brady. corn is czcci- lent. also melons and other vegetables, inclad ' ing potatoes. Ibis last rnrch is st the foo' of the mountain aud has a beautiful stream of water flowing through ,t; clear as crystal, and We had almost said, cold as ice.
 These ranchSs are situated respectively, eight. twelve and fourteen mils~ east of Tue son, on the ~Rillit0. where are thousand' of acres more of Eood agricultural iaud.; wei wcodcd and w4terei There are in tAis vi cinily. also. a. fine ranges for stock as any os the continent To tho-c who Inay talk O Tucson being in de-ert ihese src facts with which we contradict the assertion
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 We copy tbe foregoing as matter oi in
 terest. although no one here calls Tu-on
 desert. and much more generous y!es
 taken of that place than the sgutAer Ar
 sosiaa take. oG Prescott which nobody eve dreamed of calling desert TrcsoN ITras.-Tbe srptle1, Arisols1a z
 the frst inst, has the following items. Don Conrado Aguirre and Sr. Orci cf ;h firm of Orci & Borques of Hermosillo arrive
 in town Thursday evening last. John c. Capron, Esq, Jeff on Friday las for Hermosillo on buisness. ST. Don Jose Ma. oehoa is in town on
 visit to his brother.
 Lieut. Owen has returned from trip |
 Fort Grant.
 Surgeon Jaquet, C. :. A., arrived on Sal
 urday from California from camp Wallen. Prank Francis, Esq, from Tort McDowel and l.. B. Wooster, Esq, from Camp Wallcl - are on visit to this place, . Wm. II. Cole left here on Friday for th - Eastern States. Uia. California.
 We are under obligations 10 Capt c
 Smith, A. c. NJ, for latest army intelligenc T. Our fun loving friend, \. Lazard, (French! - arrived in town on Monday from Fort Whi V pie, where he had been to deliver cattle. 1. Solomon Warner, Esq, arrived in town ( :. Sunday evening last, with his family, fro ' Santa rruz, Sonora, where they have be' i stopping for few months past. e Sr. Dn. Leopoldo Carrillo returned { n Wednesday from a trip to the Pima Village d looking hale and hearty as though forty cal n paigns were in him yet.
 The mail from the east arrived on Frid'
 at 2 D. m.-N. Y Dates to August 3d.
 The enterprising contractor, NIT. Jol Ie Jones, come over the route to make arrane ,r ments to put on tri-weekly line at once, - leave for the East Mondays, Wednesdays al V Fridays.