The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-04-04
THE WEEKLY ARTZONIAN
SUNDAY APRIL 4, 1889.
SCENERY AND VEGErAFI0N

among onr co-proiesslonals that we consider as really envabe, or, at least, there is but one whichEe envy; il is not tbe ability to live in luxury through means of weath-in this we congratulate all-nor is it the ability or thought or silent discernment; but we envy that ability. which some possess, of picturing thought. of putting every emotion of the souy into language and of conveying to the eyes of others. all the ideas which stamp themselves upon the imagination.
 This is divine faculty, the faculty whie makes the poet, the novelist and the orator. Never has the absence of this power been more painfully felt by us than upon the present occasion, as we have had the the satisfaction of viewing 8 scenery which quite bafflps any description by our pen. For this view we are indebted 10 :he courtesy of Hon John B. Allen, who called upon us on Sunday evening last when, taking seat in his carriage We had pleasant drive of several miles, visiting the various cultivated fields and ranches along the Santa Cruz valley.
 For several months we had not been beyond inc suburbs of the city and were not prepared for the scenes which everywhere presented themselves Here are several thousand acres of land, certainly as picturesque and as fertile as any on the Pacific slope, blossoming luxu. riantiy va and numerous fields of grain some just sprnging above ground, others have attained various heights from six inches to two feet, and we observed one field of barley already headed peach trees in full blossom, anl hedge rows which present a continuous mass of foliage may be seen in every direction, and form an indescribable contrast with the da,k grey mountains beyond
 We halted f sOme minutes at the ranch of MT Allen which is located about two miles from town Everything here bears evidence of thrift and enterprise in the owner A large adobe corral, about two hundred feet square, having a stone foundation two feet hi2h con tains various agricu tural implements besides wagons, mules horses &c. A substantial dwelling house. sixty by forty feeet in dimen- sions IS now in process of erection.
 Until recently, the principal road leading through this agricultural district was in very poor condition, SO poor that during the rainy season 1t wa', at manypoints impossible, owing to the quantities of water at these points ac- cumuIsted But the enterprising spirit of the gentleman before named would not suffer th 80 to ren ain, and almost entirely at his own expense, has brIdged and graded the road in many places, so that it is now, not only pas sible at every season, but will in all proba-
 tba from Tucson to the Point of Mountain as it is now, rot only generally much better but shorter route to that point by some three miles
 It is pity that some more of our merchants who. from January to December, stand behind their counters, and do little else than hand ont roods to their customers at intervals, woull not suffer themselves TO view this field for enterprise, through which they might so vastly benefit themselves as we'll as ths conn trv generally, Thou, andS of acres as fertile as those under cultivation still he wa,e and will st any time amply reward culf va'ion | Here is a climate and soil where most tropical trusts will grow anl ripen; and there is no cb,ervble reas ol why the bee should not here as well as in the valleys of California deposit 1 their lescious stores in abundance
 However, 1t is satisfactory to know that these various branches of agriculture are about to have fair trial; Mr. Allen, who, during the past four years, has experimer ted to great amount, for the purpose of ascertaining | the adaptability of the soil to the production | of various kinds of graia and vegetables, is about to visit Los Angeles, there to make ar- engagements for the transportation to Tucsor, at the proper season, of several species of ! fruit trees He will likewise try the cultivation of the grape, of the success of which there can be no doubt since it is to be found growing wild in every portion of the Territory where, a stream of water courses
 This is citizenship of real valus-c ti7 enship through which country must prosper. Why cannot others, possessing ample means, aid in this pursuit oi agricultural information, rather than raise, year after year, the same species of fruit or grain Ii is known to all that experi- ment is necessary to progress, yet few are will ing 10 invest a cent unless return with profit is evident to the commonest observer. Yet A little study should be sufficient 10 convince