Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-09
SALT RIVER VALLEY, CHA COUNTY-A
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 Pheuix and Florence and their sur roundings, as also the Santa Cruz val ley, Pima county, have been dressed in figurative garb, and through the agency of type sown broadcast, with the view of creating a flood of immi. qratien, while our diamond of the desert" Upper Salt River, which courses its way through Gila county, entering the canyon at the lower verge of settlements and precipiiates itself through a rift ip the noun tain upon the drouthy Phenicians who, like the daughter of the, horse lesch, is never satisfied, but constant ly cres for more, is seldom mentioned.
 Gila county so far has been gener- ous in her aqueous gifts to her sister Maricopa. butfhe time is coming when she will be forced to be less liberal not because she loves Marlcora less. but'GiIa more, and as charity heglns at home, she will soon 5c forced, of necessity, to distribute a generous part of Salt river over the eighteen or twenty thousand acres of the arcadian valley of the mountain, which is rap idly being overcome by thai greatest of benefactors, the husbandman, whe is close upon tbe heels of ages of say ageism Tn he suhjugatio;s cf-the for est and plain, and who trT1gS to his assistance the most approved methods of farming, and the newest and best machinery and implements of agri- culture.
 This valley. so bountifully favored by nature, is naturally assisted Tn its progress of civilization by enterpris- ing inha bitants, most of whom are men and women of intelligence. thrift and business qualifications, and have already surrounded themselves with the comforts of cultured homes. They are not unmindful that education forms the common mind" and have availed themselves of the advantages arising from our common school sys- tenn. have established two districts and erected two slightly and commo- dious school houses, Tn which, "while school keeps" goodly number of bright-eyed and rosy-cheeFed children assemble for the purpose of discipin- ing the mind, and not few bear the trade mark of advanced intelligence.
 The deep, wide and rolling river is there signing for a turbine wheel to turn, but it still flows idly by, as in the past. with no grist mill upon its bank where one is so much needed. This seeming neglect must be regarded as an intended rebuke to the teeming soil which, when well titled and sown m wheat, produces from thirty to for ty bushels per acre. There is no req son why that portion of Salt river val ley should not supply breadstuff for more than the whole of Glla county. Tie only thing needed is the mill, and the builder would possess a bonanza.
 The agricultural interest of the val ley is not the only thing there which renders it desirable as a home. Its pastoral capacity is correspondingly great, and not a few have -aNailed themselves of the herbage there and on the surrounding hills to put money in their pockets by means of animal husbandry. The cattle there being fat and welI-condItioned, and giving mnch time to chewing their cud, ar gues well to the eye of prospector Tn the selection of home, and has the same effect as the school of Jolly DOT poises had upon Orlof, which he fol. lowed from CommupIpaw through Hell Gate to the island of Manhattan now New York, squatted and laid the foundation of that now famous city There seems a supernatural power in fat, and it was so considered by Juliu; Cesar, who could not abide Cassiu, because of his lean and hungry look and as "ali flesh is grass from the condition of Salt river cattle anC horses a wayfarer must conclude there is plenty of it there he stakes his clain and concludes to end his capricioui wanderings in that sylvan region, 10 cates, 'grQws up with the country, and enjoys the witchery of a delight ful rural home.
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