Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-12-01
CREATIONS WORKS.
The Fertile Soil Ofthe Basins of the Ter ritOry.--Centuries of Upheavsls Have Formed the Garden Spot of the Earth, The Salt River
 Valley.

oOiIIc III ANCDi idoht may remember reading years ago, little pamphlet of mine entitled, "Nebraska as 1t was, and is to be-" Under Inc first head were submitted some geo. graphical views, expressed not so much in scientific terms. as in the common speech of the people. I am
 hoping to be permitted to write similar little book on Arizona, but l am not ready now; will however, in
 this letter, give my views of how the desert valleys of Arizona were made.
 Uncounted ages ago the rocky mat ter now composing the surface of Ari- zona lay sleeping on it's bed of liquid fire, beneath its sheet of Pacific water.
 In the morning of one of Gods days of evolution at the touch of the Almighty hand 1t awoke to a new revelation and new duty. Under the combined force of the external contraction of the cooling earth-crust, and of external ex- pansion of the burning earth core, 1t
 wns raised up out of the water. At | the weakest seams and the points of the crust, the upheaval was greatest, throwing up what are now long ranges and spurs and buttes clear out above
 the ocean surface, but leaving what
 are now the valleys, still far down be
 heath the wave. For ages on ages,
 these waters were still continuous
 parts of the ocean, and the portions of the rock above the surface were little
 rocky in.ands gradually enlarging as
 the waters slowly subsided and retired
 to the mighty Pacific. There being
 only very little barrier to the stormy
 ocean made by these little rocky is
 lands, these waters in their everlast-
 ing violent sweep, over bedrock bot
 tom and around the sides of craggy
 ridges and peaks, formed the various
 strata of sand stone, cement, granite,
 boulders and gravel now found be-
 meath the soil. Century followed
 century, while the sharp and shape
 less fragments, by endless tossing oi
 the waves, and grinding of each other
 wore off the edges and corners of the
 stones, and fashioned the smooth and
 comedy boulders and gravel beds they
 now are. During the centuries o
 centuries, while the waters were sink
 ing and passing out the Colorado can
 yons were cut down to their amazing
 depth, and the present narrow vslei
 and glens of the higher mountain,
 were left in nearly their present shape
 and size. But as yet the broader val
 leys and gentler currents of water
 were invisible beneath their coverin,
 of inland seas.
 But there came time in the pro
 cess of drawing away of the seas, wher
 the mountains became more numer
 ous and larger above water as to be -eome-barricrs- the pillows Of tn. ocean, and the storms of heaven, & that ships, had they been in existence
 might have piled their queit harbor (phenix Bay for instance) which nest
 led among these protecting noun tains.
 There was too, very likely, in tha age meteorological change over tn western hemisphere, by reason o which, the heavens were less stormy
 and the Pacific Ocean because nor
 pacific (peacefuD so that inland seas
 lakes and ponds ceased to form bould CTS or other stony matter on the bot tom. Then came that long, long age during which the siles of the Arizun , mountains, forever dissolving into fin , dust under the blazing sun and tn drenching rains and melting snow : sent out on every side and everywher , into the quiet waters what is now tn soil of Arizona valleys-simply sedi , ment compounded of all the particle thus carried out, and cast down b their own weight to the bottom. An l so peaceful were the waters, and s r quiet these deposits, that when tn l waters all subsided, except the fe, currents still running, the earthly foo thus laid was level and smooth, just a we see it to-day-a simple, beautiful : exquisite specimen of Divine mechan ? cal skill.
 r This, imagine, is how Arizona va t leys were first made, and what the !, were made of But why were the ? made so finely finished, so laden wit x nutrimental elements, so shielde e from inclemency; but also dow e among mountains so high and so ho IS as to dry up the clouds or break theI ,, up among their lofty and craggy peak so that 1t cannot rain in the valley II and so that this 30 planed down as
 by corps of angelic carpenters, fe
 tile soil, is doomed by the all-wise an d almighty God to be blank desert ul e less reclaimed by his puny creatur F man. say why? Not ill star Il amazement and doubt, for an answt y comes to my relief and for which I al ii indebted t6 if68 ff7 l7silaf. saiff faf---------> | It is because the Creator would GI Is velope, to the highest degree the be, k material, mental and moral possibil # ties of his creation, by secreting an Il locking away his costliest gifts whel z they cannot be found and possesse !. except by the utmost skill, care, toi q patience, perseverance and all tn; h goes into the compound of highe 's manhood. So, repel the irreverer l. taunt that this is GOd-forsaken coul a try, and claim for it the signet an . 2 seal of highest Divine valuation; for 's the act of making the wilderness bio IF som like the rose and solitary plac, n glad, is the Divne illustration of tl l. highest moral attainment possible T. man, surely this thing itself of tran '- forming whole region of bare ar
 barren plain and rock into fruitf
 fields and treasures of silver and go < is the highest worldly work of u 2 best men, This is not Aggression. am not off my base. This evidence ,s a plan is presumptive evidence tn 4 the soil of Arizona is good, very goo d the very best. In my next will gi g. you the evidence of experiment., aI
 tell you what grows in this soil, al
 how the Almighty is keeping |
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