Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-07-07

disgrace with them than ever if they learn that 1 have introduced them to the readers of the Home Journal.
 My other lapse was with no "Geom- etry" nearer than fifty miles they thought tenderfoot should know how many square feet of sheeting were re- quired for the bottom of a circular tank sixteen feet in diameter. His formula worked out one hundred and fifty odd feet. It was ordered from St. Louis (which means month) and of course by the customary formula, left a shortage of some fifty square feet for leakage
 But theirs is an attractive home, and I have made more than one round trip of seventy-ive miles, or even, in the saddle for the pleasure of spending Sunday with them, which generally meant Monday also, and slaughter in whist, backgammon, etc. As I have said, it is a land of great good will and hospitality, and in vagrancy of 500 | miles in the saddle, I failed to find an exception, but on the contrary an un- reserved welcome, as, for instance, at l the General Putnam stock, she Miss L. J. Reed, of Augusta, Ga. M Cham berlain and family, at Willow Springs, | from California; Mr. and Mrs. Cook, of Dudleyville, she Miss Stetson, of :! Philadelphia; the Sellicks, of New Jersey; Bates, of Ohio Scotts, of Col orado, Cunninghams and a number of | others, mostly plucky pioneers with vivid experience to tell of Few of these women but have experienced the murderous raids of the Apaches, and few of them but have shot these treach- erous foes. About the rarest resource ! of these districts Is the young unmar ried woman, compared with the un- married man. In Final county for instance, outside of the town of Flor ence, there are but three young ladies (and the writer, if the court knows it. self, thinks he knows them alb. One of them, seventeen years old, has been engaged five times. When the reign ing lover and his sweetheart are talk ing drive, it is said, cavalcade of hoping swains will follow them close on horseback.
 Once during visit partly of busi- ness and partly of sentiment Cher mother was in one garden cutting me asparagus, the daughter and in an other cutting roses), I asked the fair
 autocrat if she felt triumph in being
 the pursued and undisputed queen of
 hearts of the valley. "May be-" she
 said, "but I do so wish I had a girl
 friend" And those rose trees one of
 them was the old "Giant of the Bat
 tle," with stock and branch sturdy as
 the quince, and scarlet with hun
 dreds of buds. This in March. The
 aspect of the river valleys is in striking contrast with that of the plains. The
 banks are lined with cottonwood and
 willow, which are more beautiful with
 the varying colors of several varitics
 of the parasite mistletoe, and the fields are ever green with barley and alfalfa,, tof which they cut from three to fourI crops year, and sell at from fifteen to
 twenty dollars ton.
 The fruit trees too are luxuriant,
 and the orchards of apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, almonds,
 prunes, pomegranates, etc., are plant
 ed close and allowed to branch from the ground and the branches of the rows to intertwine, making bowers of
 shade which protect the ground from the perpetual sunshine The dryness of the air protects the low growing, shaded fruit from the injuries it would , receive in more humid atmosphere. How different the Arizona scene on the day of the gentle March blizzard in the east. On that famous Monday
 I journeyed in temperature of eighty
 seven degrees forty miles with all avail able apparel strapped to the saddle through stretches brilliant with the :, yellow California poppy, the blue lupin | and verbena, white and yellow daisies and scarlet feather heads, and never
 woman to admire them, nothing but the loping jack rabbit and nimble cot ton tail. the whirring covies of the in numerable California quails and an
 occasional herd of antelope to vary the lovely monotony.
 This Is necessarily but a passing i meagre sketch leaving untouched the great copper, gold, silver and coal re-
 sources of a comparatively virgin dis
 trict; its grand scenery in the Cobra do, Gila and Arivaipa canyons; its
 petritied forests; its prehistoric records left in the rocks and mounds by the , cave dwellers; its reservations cover ing eighteen thousand square miles, eight tribes and thirty-three thousand I Indians; its army posts, mission f schools for Indians, etc.