Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-13
The wonders Of A71zona.
New York Evangelist. 1

Hundreds of years ago 1t was inhabit- ed by race whose records-if they | had any--are lost. They may have l been the Aztecs or Toltecs, but where | they went or why, "deponent saith not"
 While they were here this desert, now grown up with mesquite, giant cactus and sage-brush, was under ex- cellent cultivation by irrigation. They built long canals and reservoirs, adobe houses and cities, and we have now standing the remains of temple, part of whose walls are fully four stories high-the lowest of which is filled with debris-and the walls five or six feet thick, so well cemented inside that the storms of centuries have not brok- en or marred their facel How they dug the canals and built the reservoirs, and erected such temple, perhaps 100 feet by 200 or 250 feet, and laid up such a massive structure, probably of concrete, and all, so far as we know, without tool of iron or steel, remains 8 mystery.
 At later period, perhaps within the memory o: some now living, the same desert has been the neutral ground for wild Indians, and here many hard battle may have been fought between the Apaches and Pi- mas, Papagos and Maricopas, and now while Geronimo and his band are in 'durance vile" fed and guarded by United States troops in Florida, the mother of his interpreter is the teach CT of the primary department of our public school, and Pimas and Papagos cultivate farms and bring their grain | to town to sell on horseback and in wagons, and it is their boast, as well as that of the Maricopas, that they have never (with one exception) kill ed white man. Many of the child ren of the Pimas and PapagOs are now in the Indian schools of our Church in Tucson, Albuquerque and Sacaton. The "Indian problem" is being solved here, and in due time--it may be long it will be successful
 It has a wonderful climate While it is hot-exceedingly so during the summer months-from October to June it is delightful, and sun-stroke is unknown. It IS dry, clear and pure free from cutting frosts and dampness and chilling winds, and paradise fol invalids.
 For rheumatism, catarrh, nervous complaints and incipient consumption it is hard to find its equal. It is ire, from malaria and every poisonous ex halation, surrounded by mountains a distance of from 20 to 80 miles, and yet we feel the invigorating breezei and witness the grand displays of light ming, while its effects seldom reach us [ So pure is the atmosphere that Ian terms are seldom used, and men cal see the time of night on the watch face nearly as well as by day. Fron June to September nearly everybod, sleeps out on mattress or cot, withou the least danger of taking cold or be ing robbed.
 And the soil has wonderful pro ductiveness. I have seen cattle feed ing in March on nothing but sage
 brush, and they were fat! I have seer
 the same desert cultivated and irrigat
 ed, and almost every kind Of fruit be
 longing to a semi-tropical region grow
 ing in abundance and of astonishin
 size: such as apples, pears, peaches
 plums, apricots, dates, figs pome granates, quinces and graresl Wh l weighed one bunch last week tha tipped tEe scales at one and one qual
 ter pounds, but that, am told, is nc
 large, for they sometimes weigh thre poundsl The bunch that I weighe
 contained 145 grapes by actual coun
 Four crops of alfalfa and two of bal . ley are common in a season. If tray , elers would see a marvel let ther , leave inc Southern Pacific railroad g
 Maricopa and take the branch 3
 miles to Phenix, the capital of the Sa
 river valley. There they will see th
 the desert changed as by magic into
 prolific garden, and a very lively lit
 city of about 5000 with street cars, an ' all the work of five or six years! t And what Phenix and that valle are to-day, Florence and this valle l will be in few years. We have tW T canals, fed from the Gila river-ti e Florence and MOntezuma-to be con r pleted during the fall and winter, tn; > will open many thousand acres to SC e tiers, and the change that will 1 v wrought in five or six years in fl d farms and fruitful gardens and plea ' ant homes, will be repetition of wh'
 has been seen on the Pacific coast
 There has been no boom, and it }. not for this purpose that I write W
 have a Roman Catholic church ar
 school, but not a Protestant church the town, with a population of 1900 v more. We have a school that do . does honor to the place. We Ina, ' one brick store and dwelling of u u same material. Nearly all the stor
 and dwellings are adobe. If they we ,. of wood and painted, or brick, u l' streets being lined with trees, wou ' present beautiful appearance. 'i large brick store, fortyfive by sixt ee five, two stories, and another brick rt | idence, are soon to be erected TT ~ principal business has been minin 'a and you will see teams of mules al '0 horses, from four to twelve span, dra
 ing materials to and from the mines
 three or four wagons, containing fro t. 60,O00 to 75,OO0 pounds.
 The state of society is hard; b
 hard as it is, under a rough exteri t. larger or warmer hearts never be- le These young men hate sham in rel $ ion as in anything else. But if a fal T. fly loses its head, their hands go de
 into their pockets, and they wou
 give their last dollar. They are bra ee as steel and when good woman is