The Arizona sentinel., 1877-05-19
ProAts Of Sugar Care Raising in
 Lower California.

Sugar cane is raised in consider. able quantities in the valleys and gardens of the settlements of San Jose del Cabo, LOrettO and Mulege. The most important cane-prOduc. ing district is Muiege, on the guilt coast of the peninsula. opposite the port of Guaymas. The Null ege river furnishes water to irri- gate the gardens of the town |, situated on the bank of the river, some 100 acres, where land, before the discovery of the new-exten. sive copper mines of that districts could be rented from the proprie- tors at about $25 per year per acre. At the neighboring rancho, San ta Agueda, thirty miles north of Mulege, d small mountain creek irrigates about 25 acress and cane of Extraordinary growth, called "pinta," is raised, exceeding 20 feet in length, two inches in dia- meter, with joints of from $ to 10 ard 12 inches apart. This rancho is the nearest to the great copper region and furnishes a lim tted supply of vegetables for the mines, all other necessaries being imported at high cost.
 The limited area of land having water for irrigating purposes has become extremely valuable, on account of the daily increasing demand for prOductsr ard such lands, having irrigating facilities cannot now be purchased for $l90G per acre.
 The only available tract of land in the district which can be brought into market, and which can supply the demand of the mining district, is the site of the old Mission of Magdalena, near Mulege, where there is the great stone ditch formerly used to irri- gate the lands the Jesuit Fathers had under cultivation.
 This celebrated old ditch, a work of art, after being repaireds ' could irrigate the level Mission lands already cleared for cultiva- tiOn, and Irri.gate over one square mile of the best lands, producing soc tons of sagar, yielding net profit of $t20, ,0O0 the second year, the cane, after the first year, yield increasingly for seven years with out replanting, there being no frost and no clouds 10 check an upward growth, the moisture being supplied by irrigation from below.
 The cane is planted in the Mul- ege district, three feet apart by hoeing holes, in which are placed cane cuttings, or points. Each hole takes six points, or sprouts, forming mata, or hill. Each acre contains 800 hills. One hill produces the second year five pounds of panocha sugar, of a cash value of three reals, giving 25OO pounds, or $187 50 per acre; GAO acres. $120, ,0O0
 The process of manufacturing the sugar from the cane is primi- tive-two upright rollers Grunks of treeS) joining, one of which is turned by a mule fastened to q pole going round a circle. The cane is pressed between the rol- lers and the juice is caught on an underlying hide, from which it is scooped up and taken to iron pots where it is boiled and affer- ward poured and cooled into forms, making the panOcha s:sgar cake which weighs about One.half pound and is retailed on the spot or passed for cash as a medio-64 cents.
 The above described Mission tract, with it's adjoining lands, forms the largest body of agricul- ural level land within the sugar cane latitude, having irrigating facilities on the whole peninsula, and is therefore the most valua- ble. There being no frost and for cheap labor the most favored To- cation on the coast, the Yaqui Indians of Guaymas, opposite fur nishing an unlimited supply of labor during the planting and harvest seasons, at BIZ per month.