The Arizona sentinel., 1885-05-16
The Mohawk Valley.
A Wonderful Field for Settlement --.Presenting Agricultural Pos sibilIties which will De Speedily Realized.---The Fields Brothers G,aual

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 trip over the country, surrounding Yuma, for the benefit of his health, and partly to inform himself as to progress made in the various agricultural. enter prises now under way. Sixty miles of travel eastward, on the passenger train, landed the reporter at Texas Hill, where ! he found the Superintendent of the Mohawk Valley Canal Company, Hon. !! Geo. W. Norton, waiting with a convey ance. A five-mile ride northward over a smooth road brought him to the bank of the Gila river, shortly after daylight, where, taking a boat and crossing some 400 feet of rushing water, he found him. self at the site of the Canal head gate, and there could be no better one, At this point, Texas Hill, lone mountain of porphery rock. projects it's base to the waters edge and throws ledge of rock under the river's bed. Some 250 yards 10 the west rises spur from this mountain, and between and close up to the spur will be placed the head-gate just at the lowest point of a bend in the river. Owing to the course of the river and the fact of its being here confined 10 a moderate width, it's current is forced against Texas Hill and sweeps around the bend with renewed and increased power, obviatiDg the nec- essity for any artificial direction, Beating against solid rock the action of the water can make 10 impression, and bedrock forming the bottom of the river an abun- dant water supply is ensured forever.
 After breakfast one of the company's teams was hitched to light spring wagon, and, together with the Superintendent, the reporter was driven slowly down the Mohawk Valley. From the head-gate the line of the canal, work upon which is being steadily pushed forward, follows a natural depression of the surface of the land northwest for three miles when it follows the line of the table-land to its proposed termination. Travelling down the valley one is impressed at once with the remarkable agricultural possibilities nature has produced in this section. The Mohawk Valley lies between high table, lands on the north and the Gila rive" on the south. From the site of the head gate the valley slowly widens for some eight miles to a width of about two and one- half-miles, when the table lands make wide sweep to the north and the river to the south, leaving between the two, one of the most magnificent tracts of land ever trod by man. The first three miles, travelling down the valley, is somewhat broken up and uneven, but from the end of this stretch for fully twenty-twO miles the country is composed of an unbroken, level reach of valley containing fully 75,00C acres of fire alluvial soil. In all this tract, the width of which varies from one-and-a-half to seven miles, there is hardly any choice for quality, and there is no bad land. There is thlck growth of shrubbery of various kinds, with here and there clumps of mesquite and other trees, showing the natural productiyeness of the land.
 The natural facilities for irrigation are magnificent, the valley sloring gradually from the line of the canal to the river, and the question of the filling up of this sec tion with population must be one Of but short time.
 The company expects to have twelve miles of the canal completed in about fifteen months, when it will be prepared to irrigate some 10000 acres, after which further progress will be determined by the number of settlers. Taking into con- sideration the unfailing water supply. the unsurpassed richness Of the soil, the superior advantages for Irrigating, the perfect healthfulness and productive qualities of the climate, and the absence of frosts, the success of this enter prise is guarantr ed in advance and the wealth of its projectors assured. Some idea of the length of the valley may be formed, when the fact is known that, al- though leaving the site of the head-gate at o'clock in the morning, it was nearly five in the evening before the reporter and hls companion, reached the Gila river at a point opposite Antelope Peak and the terminus of the canal.
 Shaking hands with Mir. Norton the SENTINEL representative Eeie crossed the rivt r in boat kindly furnished by Mir Fields, one of the projectors of the Fields Brothers Canal, and, in few minutes, he was at the pump house of the railroad company on the south side of the river, filing himself full of cold water. A few hundred feet west from this point is the head of the Fields Canal.
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