Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-27
RIPE ENTERPRISE,
An Average Specimen of the Golden
 Opportunities in Real Estate.
What it Costs to Reclaim Desert Lands and Transform Them Into Valuable
 Agricultural Lands.

What it Costs to Reclaim Desert Lands | and Transform Them Into Valuable Agricultural Lands. The CITIZEN mas recently devoted considerable If its attention ID awaken | ing an interest among the people of this | city ID the abundant opportunities of scg hiring wealth and at the same time add greatly Co the general prosperity of the city. So far as developed, ther, are onIy a few real public spirited resi-
 dents who care s continental for the
 publc veal; the others believe m bring | ing the greatest good to the greates uumber-number one. They are eager ! to push an enterprise Tn which there T. | no risk hazardsd d ln gathering the a. ready ripe dollars, If they can control the scheme. It IS B specimen of hoggIsi ness that Is quite universal in the gel
 eral scramble for pelf. and in nine case
 ont of ten 1t has been the direct cauS
 of all the failures Tn mining and oth'
 enterprises ID this Territory. The "liv
 and let lIyS motto is the golden guid
 10 happiness and prosperity, and b.
 sharing the burdeps of development sn
 the ultimate profits thereof, whole com
 munitles may achieve tke ends of th
 highest legitimate ambition of clvIlizt
 life
 With the best motives for SO dom.
 this paper has spoken of opportuniii.
 for profitable ventures that ere beyoi
 any experimental risks, In the hop
 that some association might formed to operate them. As a furth' evidence of the safety of such inves' meats, and to attract capital fro abroad If the local capitalists are tu apathetic To take advantage of the OI portunity, the fOllOwing estimate given of the cos. of retaining a Ger tain tract of available dsssrt land witt Tn five miles of this city, computed b. a practical farmer who has resped eve better results than given m thls table. IL comprehends sinking a well at point on the Santa CruZ where the wat Is reached st five or SIX feet from tn surface, and making such an excsvatioI that pumping 1t dry would be a practical impossibIlity.
 4 fifty horse power engine with 8 Ger irIfuSal pump capable of raising m million gallons each twenty four hou' to night of twenty feet, can be pm chased with everything complete, fr g., 000 on board the cars m St. Louis
  teed to raise the above mount of wHte using about ton of cp8l or one and OD, half cords of wood per day, which ! the oUly running expense besides engineer. This water will cover 30 acres one inch deep, or 9 acres tweiv inches deep, every twenty four huu ibe usual quantity required for gou grain or grass irrigation Is a flood e three inches deep. once q month duriu the dry season. Therefore, the cspsci' of thIs plant being 300 acres one incl deep. per day, Is loo acres three inch deep per day. or 30O0 acres, three inch. deep, once per month. The plant. ther, fore, may be relied upon as sufficient under All circumstances, to thorough. supply 2OOO acres, and there is no que ton as to the abundance of the wat where ii will be taken from the old riv bed. The land is all subject to entr under the desert land laws.
 The estimate, therefore. IS made upo' the above basis. and upon the furth- results of actual experience under les favorable conditions. In fact the cOs and expense IS placed at the maximum and the income at the minimum figures