Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1884-11-27

River Valley. The illustrious Has
sayamper who posses sed it, offered
free homes 10 the millions with gems
erous grace and slept on their guns
and dreamed of the Apache. This
small settlement has since theu ex-
tended to 1900 acres, and the great
Arizona Canal will soon cover $4,000
more. The settlements of Mesa and
Tempe, then undreamcd of, cover an
area of $4,000 acres.
Then l SAW around me a sun
baked desert, on which the novels of
our pioneers darkened The gray har>
renness and increased the sense of
dessolation. Now, green folds
greener bosques, fat cattle, beautiful
homes and swift running brooks,
and we hear the voices of women
and tie happy laughter of children
Within few years, when ali these
priceless .cres shall b.. set in pas
condition will appear as shabby rs
that of our first settlers seems now.
l exult in the joy If IFS promised
beauty, when all tins great Swans
nah shall shine in the sun, gay III
green and pregnant blossoms. There
is ne fairer land than this. Here we
cease to SIGH for unforgotten homes
HapT mess is our normal condition,
and the man who once drinks Of our
waters and basks in our sunshine,
unconscious OF the attr ction returns
20 md contentment and peace. One
hundred Thousand ares OF fr.it land
backed up by rs 600 inches of water,
who can estimate the value?
The Salt River is the lifc-blood of
our system, may the river gods keep
full it's fountains. There are nils
lions in sunshine and millions in
our river. AS agent in decomposi>
ton and assimilation of soils, the
powers of the sun and water are we'll
understood, and the sal. in our water
helps the process and adds to the
re. ult of one of the most valuable
fertilizers. With sun, water and the
pillow or cultivator, to expose new
surfaces to the action of The sun, the
process OF fertilization proceeds
every time the land is irrigated. Ii
is unnecessary to recount the advan>
tagcs of system of water supply
independent of special providenres
and based on mans intelligence and
the W rkIng of natural laws. With
all these advantages there must grow
up here a great conservative commu>
nifty whose peaceful labors demand
peace, whose contentmcnt is the
sequence OF plenty. Undisiurbed by
The clamors of cranky and impossi-
BILE theorists for the advancement of
man, they will be satisfied to "hold
their own" and be always bulwark
of the state.
But let me tell you that saw Los
An gelos and San Bernardino, (and
Riverside was then patch OF DESERT
when they looked worse than we do
now, and their gardens are now the
boast of the Pacific. But their riches
and beauty are the property of the
stranger, ard the old settler has been
hunted out, driven back like the Ins
dian, The wolf and the fox.
g. l., =, ~ h.
not tempted by his gold. Hold on
to your homes. Our weak and awk> !
ward efforts at tree culture and stock |
have brought us great re-
suits, Why may not we expect with
fuller confidence in results TO rival
in stock farming and sur>
pass Los Angeles in fruit trees and
vines.
Instead of trying TO increase the
value of these ianus in the esti-
N alton of Others, we should make
them more valuable for ourselves.
Iguoring the allurcmcnls of specm-
alton and blind to the meretricious
charms of wealth let us, patiently
rs we may, laborlously as we must,
each build up his home, tree after
rec, vine after vine, and as we watch
the growth of the pet heifer and
sturdy pig and listen to the soft low
ng of happy herds, wait at the foot
If these mysterious hills, the dawn
If the better day when there shall
De written on the gates of this VAL
ey: Let him who enter here leave
are behind"