The Clifton clarion., 1888-06-27
Pima Correspondence.
PIMA, June 20, 1888.

Ing interest ever occurs nere. People have been very busy harvesting their bountiful crops, and consequently have but little time for litigation or conten- ton. Quite an additional acre age was cultivated this season, and many will materially increase it next year from present indica- tions. But would it not be we'll, Mir. Editor (as editors are sup posed to know everything), for people to begin to make q change in their systems of labor. At present there are but two branches of Misunderstanding and stock raising; but there is a good open ing for other occupations and business, such for instance, as fruit raising, including drying and canning. The higher grounds of this valley are admirably adapted to fruit. I believe California can not produce finer peaches and grapes than have already been produced here and at Stafford, and should any be disposed to doubt let them visit the orchards of Dr. Groesbeck and E. w. Futile, of Stafford, H. Weech, at Pima, and many others.
 Instead of importing thousands of pounds of butter and cheese from abroad, and paying railroads for bringing them, who not produce those articles here, upon an ex- tended and systematic basis? The demand for them IS always good. Why not tan the many wagon loads of hides annually sent away, instead of paying some one to do it in the far east and then paying heavy rate for bringing them back again in the form of leather? There is always a good demand for leather, and plenty of bark with which to do the tanning.
 Silk raising would be very profitable here. Mulberry trees planted along sidewalks, ditches, division lines of fields, and around houses would not lessen the area of farm land and would afford food for the silk worms, an agree able shade in the summer, plenty of timber for fires, fences, etc, and greatly beautify the country; and the raising of the silk-worms is very renumerative and well adapted to children and ladies who may engage in it. The silk producing area of the world is very limited, being mostly con fined to Italy, Spain, the south of France, to some parts of Turkey, to portions Of China and India, and to a very small extent in the United States; and not one of those countries has climate so well adaped to silk raising as Ari zona, which is free from the fogs of California, ard the cold winters and terrific thunder storms of Europe and Asia. And while there is little or no increase in the silk-producing area, there is a con- stant and decided increase iN the demand for silk throughout the whole civilized world, which effect ually precludes all fear of glut or overstocked market.
 These are but a few of the many industries that might be started in this, the garden county of Ari- zona, and proper and economic division of labor in a community makes it better for all trades and occupations.
 I take pleasure ln correcting through your sheet rumor dam aging to a respected citizen of Pima, Mir. Joseph Foster, one of the early settlers of this valley. It has been reported that his brand had been found upon another par tvs steer without any evidence of legal transfer; but this was found incorrect, as will readily be be- lieved by his numerous friends.
 That there are parties engaged in stealing cattle is well known, and it is to be hoped that some of them will be bro ught up shortly with a round turn, unless they go to some other locality to reside. People have borne this thing until their patience is about exhausted, and some one will be liable to suf- fer ere long the wrath of an out ragged community, if it be not stopped.
 As evidence that this valley is rapidly improving I will state that during the past two years over 60,00O fruit trees and grapes have