Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
The State of Arizona.

port in the greatest prosperity very large population. 1ta very deserts may, with the right class of settlers, be made to blossom ss the rose; to team with large and profitable crops of grain, fruit, nuts, trees, cotton and sugar. It's mountains and hills are covered with fine nutricious grasses, over which cattle and sheep may range, increase and thrive during the en- tire year-winter and summer-with only herder to look after them and drive them to market.
 | In its numerous districts, its mines of gold, silver, iron copper, salt and many other metals only await the necessary en- ergy, capital and enterprise to open and work them and reduce their ores, which are of wonderful richness When these mines shall be properly worked they will support population sufficient to buy and consume all of the produce which can be raised in the agricultural, pastoral and horticultural districts, thus making & cer- tainty that much of the wealth. which will be produced by her mines, may be retained within her borders, and not sent abroad, as is the case with most mining countries
 Generally, the poorest places in the world inhabited by civilized people are those which produce only the precious metals, all or nearly all of which has to be sent away to buy bread, clothing and other necessaries and luxuries of life, which are consumed by those who produce the bullion; and the remainder, if any, to the nonresident owner, who never visits tie country, or if he does so, only to car ry away its sources of wealth.
 But, fortunately, such is not the con dition of Arizona. While the ranges of mountains lying north of the Gila and Salt rivers are filled with hundreds of known mines, many of which are produc- ing some bullion, by various primitive methods of working them-(and there are believed to contain thousands more vet unopened) )-on the surface these noun tains are covered with fine grasses, sus- ceptible of maintaining million of cattle, while there are only a few thousand now there. Many of them are finely timbered with pine, sufficient to furnish timber for the many mines and buildings and fenc- ing for the entire Territory.
 
 The valleys of the Gils and Salt rivers were once supposed to be only desert land, and large tracts which were sold by the government as such, are really as fine lands as lay out of doors. They only need water and that is at hand and can be
 utilized for irrigating them The beauti- ful city of Phoenix, set like brilliant gem in an emerald frame, surrounded and in
 tersected with luxuriant trees, whose fo-
 liage shade the walks and the streets from
 the burning sun by day, and fringes the
 landscape with feecy softness, giving 8
 a most charming effect by moonlight, is a
 most interesting place for stranger visit.
 ing Arizona. Nestled in valley, sur
 rounded by mountains on all sides, this
 town has sprung up on account of the fer
 tility of the soil ill the vicinity, and the
 quantity of water afforded by the Salt
 river wherewith to lrrigats it. Only .
 few years ago this valley was as unipvit-
 ing as any desert in the Territory.
 few enterprising pioneers took some oi
 the water out of the river and turned il upon this apparent desert, and surely il has not yet blossomed but come to full fruition. In the place of the dusty plain this seemingly unproductive valley ha: become very prosperous farming coun try, and is susceptible of producing any thing which will grow in Los Angeles ol San Bernardino counties, in California.
 It produces brand of four which ha: taken the place of all kinds of the import ed article. Its barley is of the best. We have seen sorghum syrup from that valley produced by Mr. M Meador, father ol
 our townsman Frank Meador, on hi' place near Phoenix, which was equal, Ii not superior, to anything of the kind wt have ever seen in the Southern States ol elsewhere. We have seen bolls of cotton of as fine development as we ever saw il Georgia, grown near Phoenix, and fruit, of all kinds fourishes there
 Now when we reflect upon these re sources lying unclaimed and unappropri ated, we naturally think of the situation and wonder why2 Why is it that tht young farmers of the East who have few hundred dollars to start on, do not go tc some of the valleys of this Territory, anc reap the wonderful reward which vii surely attend upon his efforts Or wh, the young stock raiser from the sam, place does not come and bring smal herd to start with and settle in our noun tain ranges, where there are plenty of un
 occupied springs and grow rich withou
 future possibility of failure in life An, the only solution which has yet been mad to our minds is that these facts are no 3 generally known.
 The situation is not understood, and W verify believe that when the half b told of the toiling struggling millions 0 the East, that our our Territory will : so rapidly peopled that we will wonde ], where they all came from in 80 short !, time, and that we will be called upon a n public journalists to proclaim the organi !: zation of our Territory in the new ''STAT n OF ARIZONA" So may it be.-Arizon l Democrat