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The Arizona sentinel., 1879-01-11

! the mining regions Ot the sur
 rounding country and the large consumption of barley by freight
 teams, and Inc more than paying
 prices received offer to the farmer
 greater inducement to cultivate than can ever occur in, perhaps, more favored localities.
 That there can be no fear of failure of crops by reason of dtouth the following will show.
 A system Of canals or ditches eX ists, the source of water being the Salt river, which is brought to bear upon the land by the afore- said means. There is a mann trunk of twenty-five miles, which extends it's branches in all di- rectiOns. This trunk has a breadth of bottom twenty-four feet, with a grade of two feet 10 the mile, which is calculated to carry ten thousand miners inches. The water is sold to farmers at the rate of $250 per inch per annum. One hundred inches is an abundance of water for irriguting 1GC acres of land.
 The principal portion of the valley land is sandy loam, inter- spersed with adobe. To the southwest of Phoenix there is a considerable quantity of land that can be pre-enrted under the homestead act, and will come within the limits of the Grand Canal.
 Oats and alfalfa grow luXuri antiy. Barley is worth q cents; wheat, 2 cents. As an illustra- ton of the advantages of close industry, 1 should state that grain grown by the Indians (Maricopas and Plmas) commands higher price than that grown by either Americans or MeXicanS. By careful attention, wheat, espec- tally harvested bY Indians, is fuller and heavier, and Ameri- cans always buy it for seeding and pay a higher price than they obtained for their own grain, the offspring of the Indians pr0duc ton.
 The roads leading to and from Prescott deserve more than a passing notice, and while some portions of them are mountain ous and otherwise difficult, for the greater distance they are straight. and smooth and level With the exception of Texas, the natural roads through Arizona are the best in the country. Of course, there are mountains to cross and caTions to penetrate, which ObSta- cleS of travel do not exist in what may be termed the Prairie States. But in the latter there are no gravelly stretches of 40 or go miles; no mesa lands with vol canic pavements that would put to blush all the macadamized thOroughfares in the world. Du- ring late trip through the Ter ritOry, the conductor of buck board, upon which 1 had taken passage, after emerging from the sinks of the Hassayampa: about F o'clock of as dark a night as ever saw, hitched the reins to the brake, took drink of needle gun Whiskey, and then went to sleep, Tn which pleasant performance he Was joined by the undersigned, and we slept until we reached a station tWenty-odd miles away.
 The road from Yuma to Pres colt, upon which the daily malls and most travel go at present, presents every variety of country known in America. From Yuma to TysOn's Wells, nearly ninety miles, it runs over mountains and across deserts, with nothing but cactus and sage brush to meet the eye. The road from TySon's 4o n,Ao on
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ted for % and 8 miles, revealing
 here and there superb mountain
 views and craters of old volca-
 noes. From Date Creek, border
 ing upon which for many miles
 is large grazing section, to
 Prescott It is GO miles, and some
 of them are very tough. Leaving
 the Date Creek section you get
 into a rolling, sterile country, and
 presently arrive at what is termed i Bells Cation, or Bells Mountain,
 which would make a companion
 piere to the rocky elevations in and about Sherman, OF the Union
 Pacific railroad. Leaving Bells Canon yod' drop down into 6 series of pretty valleys, the prin- cipal of which are Skull and Kirk land valleys, through which the prettiest of water courses take their way. In short time there
 after a magnificently timbered mountain, covered with pine, oak and cedar, is reached, and shortly afterWard the tourist arrives at Prescott. Leaving Prescott for the river country and Southern Arizona, you retrace your way to
 Date Creek, and tken drive to Wickenburg oyer 30 miles of hard gravelly road, as level almost as a barn floor. Then you go down what is termed the Sinks of the Hassayampa, fifteen miles, after which you strike desert with a hard graveily surface which is 40 miles across, then eight miles of powdered dust, and you reach PhoeniX, upon the Salt river. You cross the Salt river at Hay den's Ferry, P miles from Phm- nix, and then proceed IF miles to the Gila, which you cross, and strike out for MaricOpa Wells, 3 miles from the river, and which is situated Cn the Yuma and Tue son road, in Southern Arizona, 190 miles from Yuma and 120 from Tucson. The mountain scenery upon either hand between the mouth Of the Hassayampa and Phoenix is grand and superb be- yond description. On tie right are tl,e Maricopa and Gila ranges, the former rising up out of the desert to a height of many thou sand feet, and at least 50 or 60 miles in length. On the left are the White mountains, with their three graceful peaks seemingly touching the azure canopy above, and in the dim distance, 130 miles away, is "Superstition Noun tain,' the most romantic eleva- tion in Arizona, where, the legends of the country tell Us, eX- ist fabulous deposits of native silver and pure gold, and at the base of which bleach the bones of every prospector and adVenturer who has dared to trespass upon the precincts of this lone pile this rocky Upas of the unexplcred and uninviting deserts of thlS enigma of country.
 From Hardyville, on the Colo rado river, to Prescott it is 1Gl miles, with good wood, water and grass all the way. The traveller doing Arizona should make this trip. The mountain scenery is grand and picturesque beyond l description. There are some 13 stations along this stretch of 16l miles, all of which are good places 1 to camp.
 The road from Prescott to Santa | Fe, on which the Government | has just placed daily mail, is 523 miles in length, and lies in the i better part of Eastern Arizona. With the exception of here and | there some difficult mountain and | cdnon distances, the road is gen. erally good, while there is a greater variety of delightful . scenery than can be elsewhere |
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~ J. c. COGSWELL, Denusr, I~-N> has removed his office from 230 iS Kearney street to the Young .%1E1IC' Mems Christian Association Building, 232 Sutter street, near Kearny, San Francisco The rooms are elegant, con 7enient and well ventilated. Friends and patrons are invited to call.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
Senator Ransom.

A correspondent of the Nash
vile American some weeks ago,
writing from Washington, paid
Senator Ransom a high and de-
served tribute. We noted at the
time one remark. He said that he
vas "not great at a set grafton,
but a fountain Of eloquence when
an occasion touches his heart and
spurs his brains to action" We
have never met with worse criticism
than this. General Ransom's forte
lies in "set orations." His IA
nous speech delivered three or
four years ago in the Senate in de-
fence of the South and in behalf of
Cancellation and peace between the
sections, was a model of elaborate
thought and fervid el%oquence.-
vii. Star.
The American mans mistake is
one not confined to General Ran
som. Not many years ago a great
deal of popular praise was express
ed for an "impromptu outburst of
lofty thought by one of our emf
nent Statesmen not yet attained
the dignity Of Senator. The
speech was entirely original. but
those who occupied rooms adjacent
to. the orators bedroom had the
benefit Of fully one dozen rehear-
sails of the ''out-burst"-(read from
a printed slipl-which was to spon-
tanlfy the assemblage next dav.
The fact is, when a Statesman
makes a really ''impromptu" speech
likely to attract attention., he is
prodigiously troublesome to the re-
porter, an | the proof reader. Of the
Daily Journal which reports him.
AS for Gen'l. Ransom we differ. vet
agree, with both our contemporaries.
His "set. oratlons" are certainly
eloquent and polished, but his
quick, half-angry responses on a
patriotic subject strike home to
friend and fee.and that is high
koratory. TIeH -
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

TWENTY Biologists carefully ex-
aiming every nook and corner e
her surface, at a cost of 800. 600
for the past year, alone. Georgia
has EIGHT Biologists surveying
her counties in regular order from
east to west. Yet how much great
er need has our mineral-veined,
soil-twisted old North State for
such work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
The Mari Question.

RALEIGH, N. c., March 10, 10.
Mr.. EDITOR Inasmuch as |
have frequent inquiries like the
following from intelligent and en-
terprising farmers in the mari re-
gion, l send you this correspon-
dence that l may answer many let
tiers in one, and perhaps put an ar
rest on ill-advised enterprises al
ready inaugurated.
W.. c. KERR.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
ITO BE

GOLD MINING IN RANDOLPH
A gentleman just from Randolph
informs US that there is great cx-
element in that county over the
new gold mine, recently opened on
the plantation Of Griffith Moore.
Esq. 1t is to be worked by q
Northern Company, who are now
ntting up the machinery necessary
1or It's operation. A large quantity
Oh ore has been prepared, and it's.
thought will pan out very we'll. 4
nephew Ct Samuel J. Tilden has
an interest in this mine.-Winston
Leader. ..I,'L '''
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
State GeolOgist.

An erroneous impression appears
to prevail in respect to this officer.
He has not been removed !; neither
has he been re-appointed. The
matter is very simple. The Consti-
tuition prohibits the impairment of
any State officers prerogatiyes dur
ing the term of his service, save in
one way, to wit, by the abolition
of the office. The Office of State
Geelogist was not abolished the
operations Of the survey were trans
ferred from the supervision Of the
Board Of Education to that Of the
Board of Agriculture. But as we
happen to know, Prof. Kerr, the
present State Geologist, placed his
resignation at the disposal of Gov.
Vance long before the late Legis-
lature convened, but was advised
to withhold it at any rate until
after the completion of work in
hand. That this work should be
completed, and the results of four
or five years work (already in man
uscript) should be published, seem
ed a self-eyident proposition, as
much in justice to the State, which
ordered the work las to Prof. Kerr,
who has been a Jealous and inces-
SAINT worker in behalf of the State,
let men say what they will! We
will mention further that we have
heard Prof. Kerr declare repeated
" and Enthusiastically that the hour
which witnessed the completion Of
the work in hand, and the publica-
ton of his Reports, should also
mark the date of his resignation
regardless of terms Of service.
1t is his wish to complete these
matters at the earliest moment :
possibly within six, certainly with
n twelve months. For our Part
we should regret to see it hurried,
or left incomplete. Like the De
partment of Agriculture, the Geo
logical Survey does its work not
merely for the present hour, but
for the future. And the future will
reveal that our mistake has been,
not in spending 5000 a year for
Geological research, but in not
spending a larger sum to thorough
~ unmask every feature of our
grand old commonwealth to the
end that she might have been soon
er appreciated. 81 Pennsylvania has
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

tS ~ III -
which we might and should make
for ourselves. | cannot recon
mend your proceeding in the direc-
ton specified. And for the fol-
lowing reasons /: A large item in
the cost of manipulated fertilizers
arises from the handling and trans
portation. Hence the necessity of
having them concentrated"
While it might pay very we'll to
handle q thirty or fifty dollar ar
ticle half a doztn times and pay
two or three dollars per ton freight,
you can see that five dollar article
might leave you with considerable
margin on the wrong side. Your
mari is worth four or five dollars
perhaps, (if of good quality, and
would pay to dig and haul a few
miles and scatter, while it would
not pay to handle three or four
times and bag and transport and
pay commission on. Again: You
cannot make a fertilizer for u
markets without phosphates in
some soluble form. And these
should not be mixed with mari or
any form of ~calcareous matter, be-
cause its solubility would be there
by reduced, and it's quality and
value lowered in the same proper
ton. And there are other difficult
ties in the way of the addition Of
Nitrogen compounds. SO it isbet-
ter to scatter your mari broadcast,
by the ton per acre, and get it
thoroughly incorporated with the
soil, and then the soil will respond
generously, two and three fold, for
every pound of concentrated ferti-
lizer you give it.
But, you have in your eastern re-
gion the materials for a profitable
business in manure making, and
that is in the fish offal and the i'm
mense shoals Of fatbacks, (menhad-
en,) which war; in the sounds
near the shore, and also in the
peat beds which abound every
where.
On the coast of n. j. and Long
Island, thousands of tons Of f%ertili-
GERS are manufactured IN this way,
and at a good profit, the oil very
nearly OF quite paying the expense
of the manufacturer.
Here is an opening to your en-
terprise which is paying elsewhere
and will no doubt pay here.
Yours truly,
w. G. KERR.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

See notice elsewhere Of d O.
made by the Dixie Agrlcu.:'-
and Mechanical Association, UT
the ladies Of this and adll
counties. We are sure the 2
ladies will not hesitate to do .
they can to encourage the tas.
Frs AND MECHANICS to II
amongst themselves to buIla r., y
our beloved South. Pee Dee III.
aid.
You are right, friend Paa
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

man might obtain ashes for the
above stated price, others could not
obtain them at all. and find a d.
rect application Of the potash nee
esSarv.
Now we hazard the remark that
the Doctor in his zeal TO convict us
of error. not to say eXaggeratlon,
overlooks the important consldela-
ton that in his 400 pounds wood
ashes he cannot get %! pounds
potash and II pounds magnesla IN
a soluble state, so as to meet the
immediate requirements of the
soil. We are acquainted with the
value of wood ashes, we use all we
can get. but TO us 400 lbs. wood
ashes (the quantity suggested by
my friend) for 100000 bales cot
ton would require the use OF one
billion nine hundred million
pounds annually, If that were our
only source Of supply, allowing
the whole crop to be removed,
which, happily for us. is not the
case, else potash would be worth
far more than it now is or ever has
been. The manner III which DR..
Salmon bushwhacks u figures,
would utterly destroy the truth of
anv calculation to which such Il
method might be applied. 1t is
evident hat our method used in
the calculation is correct, or else
his. as he has turned them against
us. is correct. We think the pres
ent state of facts is a good tribu-
nal, and to the facts we appeal. If
the case is, as he shows it to be by
bushwhacking eur position, then
the cotton producers in the South
are SIS, JOY, 500, better off by the
two crops only Of 1877 and 1878,
and those Of North Carolina. The
cotton producers alone have made
a clear profit on their cotton crops
for 1877 and 1873, s2,2S6, OBS. If
this is so,' and by his figures he
proves it to be so. Where is the
money? Bear in mind we only
count the profits for two years
only, and at the low price of s! cts
when we know that the 10 crops
from 1866 to 1877 sold for a much
higher price. But if our figures
are the correct ones, then the cot
ton producers have made no money
on cotton for the last two years.
Without arguing this point fur
ther, we leave the intelligent read
er to decide for himself. oa7
The gentleman then proceeds to
declare unqualifiedlv, s"That there
is not a particle of evidence to
show that we need apply either
chlorine, or soda, or magnesia,
&C."
Now it is clear, that in this case,
We are to infer one or the other Of
two things, VIZ: first, that these
clements are not required in order
to the full development Of the
pant /; or secondly, that the soil is
already sufficiently charged with
these essentials. The first is con
tradicted by the results obtained
IN the analysis of the ash of every
species Of plants, which we remem-
Der to have seen f; as cotton, wheat,
barley, oats, rye, vetch, peas, beans,
turhlps, potatoes, carrots, rye
grass, red-clover, white clover iu-
cerne, and all forest trees; (but in
none OF these instances do we find
soda and chlorine united in the
proportions to form common salt.) I
The second Inference is CONTRA
dlcted by the presence of the above
named constituents, in such limit
ed quantities, in the many varieties
OF soil from time to time analvzed
with a view of determining to what
they owe their fertility or barren
ness.
(To BE coNTINUED.)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
LENOIR. n. G.. F,eb. il.

DEAR SIR:-If anybody il
G. has Prickley Comfrey Or ]
lillian Artichokes for sale,
don't they advertise them in
GARNER AND MECHANIC In
been a little
year with the Common Jer0~
Artichoke, and | am pleased &
the result, having obtained a !
Of sixty fold. Has Prof. Far.
any to sell
Yours truly, Il. L.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

In S~trasbourg $50 people areen.l'
IN the business of cramm1ng 81
the manufacture of pate de lor
In order to bring the birds IN" hi.
the proper condition # dlseasTT ~.r-
pounds Of food are required r
three Strasbourgers havet the ino-t.
of the trade, receiving alIo7 /.
about a quarter of a million ,f.
yearly income. nearly touI-'~
which is for the liver.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

REMEDY For EAR~ACHE.-Takatha
kernel Of a peach seed, bruisa il CO..
siderably, then pour boiling Rot wata.
on 1t about q teaspoonful. LET 4 stand
till about blood heat, then pour in tha
car 1t will give immediate relief 10
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

According to Lnersons p'
tory, Charlotte has 1,101 PEI
ton. 1t is claimed that there
a thousand or fifteen hundrei
sons living in the subur2'' /.
outside the corporate limits.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
TURN THE WICK Down.

TURN THE WICK DowN.-ee.e
sons are in the habiE # gong 5faa
with the wick Of the lamptniA'r
low. It is a most unhealthy Irsrrt
The gas which should DC t" AIM
by the fame passes into 1h ~ bgrl
phere. Only good oil should led to
ed, and the wick always ra'''
proper height.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

RALEIGH, n. c., March 10, 1879.
Mr.. W. D.-DEAR SIR +: In
reply to your favor of the
18th, l must say that while l sym
pathize fully in your object, and
would be rejoiced to see domestic
manufactures of fertilizers, asfweH
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20
WOULDN'T Work THE Roam

NoOLDNT WORK THE RoAD.-
Justice Mosely, Of Harnett town.
ship, sent to Sheriff Mannino .
colored citizen named Isaac B;sb'
op, who had refused to work the
road. The Sheriff put him in
jail without the ceremony which
ought to be accorded to snch .
free and independent citizen, and
he viii MUNICH corn bread and
mediate upon the ups and downs
OF this life until he gets ready 10
pay the fine required of him.-Snn
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

DEAR SIR My apology for
taxing your time and attention at
present is the interest / feel in the
important subject Of this letter.
You are aware that, at best, our
commercial fertilizers are costing
us too much This is especially SO
this year, when the price-most
favorable-is no lower now than
last year, Notwithstanding the
"hard pan" prices to which every
thing has been subject. A friend
and myself have been talking over
the practicability of preparing
something as a substitute, per-
haps better, for the best of our i'm
ported fertilizers.
We can procure mari of very ex-
cellent quality. We believe that
this mari, ground up and intimate
ly mixed with some chemicals, will
produce fertilizer, at least, equal
to, if not better than, the thous-
ands of tons Of what we are i'm
porting. What we desire to ascer-
tain of you is, what chemicals, or
other substance, will, by combina-
ton with the mari, produce the de-
sired fertilizer? If you can give
as a satisfactory answer, by which
We a go into the manufacture Of
a fertilizers equal to or better than
imported, at a cost far below
what is required by those compa-
MES, we design going, at once, in
to the manufacture thereof. We
believe it to be practicable, but
neither Of us being chemists, do
not know what to use, in combina-
ton with the mari to produce the
desired result. Mari, we know,
applied crude, is an excellent agent
in fertilizing our lands, for almost
any kind of produce-although not
a fertilizer within itself, but opera
ting in certain combinations to
produce fertilizing effects. Using
the mari, then, for a base, we be-
lieye that there are substances with
which it may be ground and mixed
that would make it more valuable
having the quality of per-
manent-than what our peo-
pie ire now consuming land in
turn, consuming them) by the
thousand tons. We therefore re-
quest the favor of you to inform
lis what substances-their proper
tions-we shall require to produce
the fertilizer desired. We desire
to go into it here, in our own
county, and have a hope, while
making it remunerative to our
selves, to supply a more valuable
and permanent fertilizer and land
improver, and thus effect a valu-
able Improvements to our farmers
economeic arrangements, feeding
his land more abundantly, on more
nutritious food, as we'll as saving
him a heavy annual outlay. Any
assistance you will render us then.
in this behalf. will be most kindly
appreciated.
Yours, very respectfully.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

Prof. Benjamin Pierce, Of Il.
ward College in a lecture in Bo.
on Thursday evening on co-s
and meteors, asserted that THE
nsity of the nucleus OF a come
least equal to that Of iron.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-20

AS announced In our las. ISL.
Rev. DR.. IIoge has accepted u
vitatlon rendered by the 5
Glass Of the University to 1r
the Baccalaureate Sermon dm
our next Commencement. 7.
eminent divine is a p~re>bysa.
In doctrine, and is one Of the
preachers in the South.-Ledgr