Salt River herald., 1878-01-26

Sarucu oi hii1on@, 10 PicooauSiy i0 cated on the north half of section eight, in township one, north of range three, east of the meridian of Salt River. The patent for the town site was issued by President Grant to
 JUDGE JOHN T. ALSAP On the 10th of April, 1874. The original Commissioners of the town were John T. Alsap, M. P. Griffin and Wm. A. Hancock. The town was surveyed and plattcd by Wm. A. Hancock in 1869. The survey is true with the cardinal points of the compass. Jack Swilling, one of the first settlers and projectors of the town enterprise. gave Phoenix it's ,name, selecting therefor the fabled bird of antiquity, whose cog nomen he found in an old copy of Webstcr's dictionary, the said book still being in Jacks possession and constituting the bulk of his library.
 At this time the town War a WILDERNESS OF sAGEBRUsH AND
 MEsQUIT.
 Since then various ditches have been taken out from that never fail ing source of supply, Salt River, and Phoenix finds herself centrally situated in the midst of an agricultu- ral region that cannot be surpassed in the United States in its general fertility and adaptiveness to the growth of the temperate and semi tropical fruits, vegetables, and e. reals.
 The growth of the town has not been frverish, nor of the mushroom order, but it has steadily and health fly improved, not, however, i'll ali vance of the improvements of the surrounding country.
 With the prospect of carly RAILROAD CONNECTION WITH SAN FRANCISCO,
 And the greater breadth of arabic land that is every year being added to, by the extension of accquias, the future prosperous growth of the village may be considered as per fectly secured.
 Our climate is the best in the world, being exceedingly healtliful; the temperature being regular and without the variable changes con- non even in the southern States of the Union. As the HERALD will give it's readers from time to time the range of the thermometer this fact of climate will be fully verifi: d.
 OUR SOIL
 Is well adapted to the prosperous growth of all the cereals, barley and wheat being at present the principal crops. Corn has been successfully grown and was the best crop of the valley in one of the first years of its settlement. It has been practically proven that sugar cane and cotton will flourish exubcrently here. Al falfa and sorghum are the staple for age crops. All the productions of the garden, vineyard and orchard thrive splendidly. The olive and the vine the apple and the orange, the almond and the peach, seem equally adapted to the climate and soil, and, in fine, wherever the irrigaiing stream cyp be made to reach the plant, the farmer has only to tickle the earth with the hoe and it laughs with q harvest, unrivalled in its range and profusion.
 The hope of the future of Arizona lies entirely in her
 MINERAL RESOURCES.
 The great extent and richness oi these resources is every day in' creasing and being acknowledged As base of supply for these vast mineral fields the Salt River valley is without peer in the Territory People of other sections may dis pute this truth, yet it is 50 tangible and certain, that no one who hal travelled through Arizona can helI g. sing that it is so. Having thu C ly never failing water supply fol