Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-14

with them than ever if they learn thgt l
 have introduced them to the readers of
 the Home Journal.
 My other lapse was with no "Geome-
 try" nearer than fifty miles they thought
 6 tenderfoot should know how many
 square feet of sheetipg were required for
 the bottom of circular tank sixteen
 feet in diameter. His formula worked
 out one murdered snd fifty odd feet. It
 was ordered from St. Louis (which means
 a month) and of course by the custo-
 mary formula left shortage for some
 fifty square feet for leakage.
 But theirs is CD attractive home and
 have made more than one round trip of
 seyenty-iive miles or over, in the saddle
 for the pleasure of spending Sunday
 with them. which generally meant Mon
 dsy also, and a slsughts ID whist, back
 gammon, etc. As I have said, It lis 8
 land of great good will and hospitality
 and in a vagrancy Of SOO, miles in the
 saddle I failed to find sn exception, but
 on the contrary an unreserved welcome.
 ss, for instance, at the homes of Mr.
 and Mrs. Putnam, of the General Put
 nam stock. she MIss l.. g. Reed of Au-
 gnsts Gs., NJ. ChsmberlaDe and family
 at Willow Springs, from California;
 Mir and Mrs. Cook, of Dudleyvills, she
 a Mi,s Steison of otPhilsdslphis; the Sel-
 licks of New Jersey; Bates of Ohio; Gun
 ninghams and nlmber of others. most plucky pioneers, with vivid experiences
 to tell of. Few of these women but
 hsve experienced the uurderous raids of the Apaches and few of them but have shot these trescherous foes. About the rarest resource Of these districts Is the young unmarried women, compared
 with the unmarried men. In Pinal county, for instance, outside of the town of Florence. there are but three young lsdies and the writer. if the court knows itself, thinks be knows them all One of them seventeen years old. has been engaged five times. When the reign ing lover and his sweetheart are tsking . drive, It is said. a cavslcsde of hop ing svsins will follow them close on 
 Once during 8 visit partly of business and partly of sentiment (her mother was in one garden cutting me sspsrsRus,the daughter and I in another cuttin z roses(, asked the fair autOcrat If she felt triumph ID being the pursued snd queen of hearts of the Gils valley. Maybe" she said, "but 1 do so wish had gIrl frieud." And those rose treesi one of them waa the old 'Gisnt of the Battle" with stock snd as sturdy ss the quince, and Icsrlet with hundereds of buds. This | in March, The aspect of the river val eys Is in striking contrast with that of | he plains, The banks are lined with | cotton wood and willow, which are more | with the varying oolors of se,- ,rsl varities of the parasite mistetoe, md the fields are ever green with bar ey and alfalfs, from which they cut ihree to four crops year. and sell at rom fifteen to twenty dollars 6 ton.
 The fruit trees too gre l5Iuriant, and be orchard of apples, pears, peaches. olums, spricots. almonds ,prunes, pome- lrsnet, etc, are planted close and sllow- d to branch from the ground snd ihe branches Of the rows to intertvine, ,msk- pg bowers of shsds which protect the round from the perpetual sunshine. The dryness Of the air protects the low shaded fruit from the iDju- ies it would receive in & more humid 
 How different the Arizona scene on he days of the gentle March blizzard in be East. On inst famous Monday ourneyed in 6 temperature of eighty even degrees forty miles with .sll avail ble apparel strapped to the saddle trough stretches brilliant with the yell 'w California poppy, the blue lupin and erhens, white and yellow dsisef and ,arlet heads. and never a woman to 1mIre them, nothing but the loping .ck rabbit and nimble cotton tail, the hiring eovies oft the innumerable Ari- 1ns qusils and 6n occasional herd of ntelopes to vary the lovely monotony. This IS necessarily but passing. mea- re sketch. leaving untouched the great 0ppsr, gold, silver and coal resources of comparatively virgin district; its grand ,enery in the Colorado, Gils sud Ari- sypi oanons; its petufied forests: its rehistOric records lefs in the rocks and ounds by the cave dEsllers; its reser- stions, covering eighteen thousand 1 IuRre miles. eight tribes and thirty lree thousand Indians, it's army posts, l ission schools for Indians, etc.