Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-06-16
salt River Valley, GiIa Csaaty--A Gar
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Pheuix and Florercs and tbeir sur- roundinRs, ss also the SsnIs CruK val ley, Pims cOun'y, have been dress~d m hsursnvs gsro, aud through the agency Of type sovp broadcast. with the view of creating 6 hoOd of Immi- grafton, while our -dismoDd of the de ssrt," Upper -slt Riv T, which courses Is way through Gil4 uIty, entering the czoyo. st the loyg verge Of settle mr nts and preeipItstes itself through rift m the mOuuIain upon the drUuthy PhR lIcisns who, Iike the dsuahter of rue horseleecb, IS never satr fed, but constantly Cries for more, is seldom raen- tionsd.
 GIls county so far has been generous 10 her aqueous sIfs 10 her sister MArieo ps, but the tune is coming when she will Do forced to De less literal; pot bec us. she loves Msricopa less, but Gila more. and ss charity begins si home, she vii soon be forced, of necessity. 70 dIs,rlbuts 6 generous part of Salt river over tbe eighteen or twenty thousand acres Ot the srcadIsn valley of the mountain, which | is rapidly being overcome by tbAt great | est of benefsctors, the husbandman, who Is close upon the heels of ages of say age sm iD the sublugstion of the forest and plain, and who brings to h.s Assis tancs the most approved methods of farming. and the newest and best mBchi- nery and implements of agriculture.
 This valley, SO bOuntfnlly favored by nature, IS naturally sisted in its pro gress of civilization by enterprI-ing in hhbitsIts, most of whom are men and women of intelligence, thrift and busi- ness qualifications, and have already surrounded themselves with the comforts ot cultured homes. They are not un- mindful that "educstion forms the com mon mind" aud have avAilsd the mselves of ths advantages arisiug from our com mon school system; have established two districts and erected two slightly and commOdious school houses, in which, while school keeps,' gOodly pumber of bright-eyes and rosy checked children assemble for the purpose cf disciplininS the mind, and not a few bear the trade mark of advancsd intelligence.
 The deep, wide and rolling river is there signing for turbine wheel to turn out It st.ll hoGs idly by, as in tre past, with no grit mill upon its bank where one Is SO much needed. This seeming neglect much be regarded as an intend ed Tebukr 10 the teeming soil which, when well titled snd sOwn ID wheat, pro iunes from thirty to forty bushels Der acre. There is no reason why that DOT sion of Salt river valley should not sup- ply breadstuff for more than the whole of Gill county. The only thing needed Is the m i!l, and the builder 1olld possess bonspIa
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