Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-01-29
THE STATE OF ARIZONA.

fruit, nuts, trees, cotton and sugar Its mountains and hills are covered with fine nutritious grasses, dver which cattle and sheep may range, increase and thrive during the entire year. winter and sum- mer-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 energy, capital and enterprise to open and work them and reduce their ores, which are Of wondesful 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 at the agricultural, pastoral and horticultural districts, thus making a certainty 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 the other necessaries and luxuries of life, which are consumed by those whr produce the bullion: opd IT. remainder, N fl any t5 Cne nonresident owner, who never visits the country, or if be does so, only to carry 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 they are believed to contain thousands more, vet unopened)-on the surface these mountains are covered with fine grasses, susceptible of maintaining million of cattle. while there are only few thou sand now here. Many of them are finely timbered with pine, sufficient to furnish timber for the many mines and build ings and fencing for the entre Territory.
 The valleys of the Gila and Salt rivers were once supposed to be only desert land, and large tracts which were sold 1 by the Government as such, are really ! as fine lands as lay ont of doors. They 1 only need water and that is at hand and | can be utilized fer irrigating them. The beautiful city of Phenix, set like brilliant gem in an emerald frame, sur | rounded and intersected with luxuriant | trees, whose foliage shades the walks and l the streets from the burning sun by day, l and iringes the landscape with heecy sofmess, giving a most charming effect l by moonlight, is most Interesting place | for a stranger visiting Arizona. Nestled | in a valley, surrounded by mountains | on all sides, this town has sprung up | on account of the fertility of the soil Tn | the vicinity, and the quantity of water afforded by the Salt River wherewith to | irrigate it. Only few years ago this |
 
 the Territory. 4 few enterprising pio- neers took some of the water out of the | river and turned it upon this apparent | desert, and surely it has not only blos- ! somed but come to full fruition. Is the place of the dusty plain, tiiis seemingly unproductive valley has become a very prosperous farming country, and is sus- ceptible of producing anything which will grow in Los Angeles or San Berna- dino counties in California.
 It produces a brand Of flour which has taken the place of all kinds of the i'm ported article. Its barley is of the best. We have seen sorghum syrup from that valley produced by Mr. NJ. Meador, father of our townsman Frank Meador, on his place near Phenix, which was equal, 1T not superior, to anything of the kind we have ever seen in the Southern States or elsewhere. We have seen bolls of cotton of as fine development as we ever saw in Georgia, grown near Phenix, and fruit of all kinds hourishing there.
 Now when We reflect upon these re- sources lying unclaimed and unappro- printed, We naturally think of the situa- hon and wonder why? Why is it that the young farmers ot the East who have few hundreds to start on, do not go to some of the valleys of this Territory, and see the wonderful reward which will surely attend upon his efforts? Or why the young stock raiser from the same place does not come and bring a small herd to start with and settle in our mountain ranges, where there are plenty of unocupied springs and grow rich without future possibility of failure in life? And the only solution which has yet been made to our minds is that these facts are not generally known.
 The situation is not understooh, and We verlly believe that when the half of the story Is told to the toiling struggling millions of the East, that our Territory will be so rapidly populated that we will wonder where they all came from in so short 8 time, and that we will be called upon as public journalists to proclaim the organization of our Territory in the new 'STATE OF ATIzoxA." Somay It be.