Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-04-21

| years aga would to most people have sounded the very extrsvsgance of boast ful folly, and even now, perhaps. sounds rather fspoiful; but only @ moment 6 serious thought IS required to convince any man acquainted with the sui cot, that its fulhllmeut will he neither more | nor less than the usi ursl cons quepce of the sdvsotsges with which Nature. ss blessed this section, coupled with a osop-r exhibition of energy on the psri of its people.
 FARMING AND FRUIT RAISING. In the valley of the Gils, ID which 90
 per crn'. of the farming ot ths cpuLty iS
 a present done, tho rs wss ID 1887. n1der cultivation, some 45 000 acres Of land sll irrigated by Canals or dItches from the | 3ila river; of this some 25OO wss ID
 Ehe-t, and 10 O00 acres m barley. The
 wheat averaged some 2 300 lbs per ac-e. and produced four at the rate of 60 Der
 ,ent.. all of winch find. market in the valley, and there is imported some
 S1.0 lbs snnuslly, from O dorado and l California. The seei st pre-eut most
 lsed is the variety known as the \ ,- nora
 Barley has been worth i1 the local
 market, cents per pound.
 | After the crops of barley and wheat nave been harvested about June, the land IS ploved and irrigs'ed, aud s crop
 lf com is planted vhinh wIli sversgs, when gathered, 5000 bs per acre, or Desnt, for this is empnatieslly e4D country, and every species of beans are grown with but little expense and trou- Dle; yet 75 per cent of the beans used | n the county are imported iron Cali forpia.
 Iri-n potatoes yield well; -tter the crop
 1ss been dug, say in July, 8 crop of sweet potatoes may folloe, which will always mature before frost. Sweet po-
 ,s oes co Id h. made one Of the staple crC ps oi Oils Valley the average produc-
 Ion Is 20 OC0 b, per sore, loo d prIce, cents per p"un0: all varieties can he 6 own and they ere easily kept in bank In the open air; yet sll the mining csmps
 'eeeive their supplies from Cali ornis. Csbbsges. peas. beets, snd csulitOweI 9roducs we'll, and are 10 good demand. yet of thtss, California sends to the
 ,ounty over 60 per cent. The srticboks
 growing 10 be popular vegetable sll ,v-r the country, and here in ihe rich sOil of the river bottoms, where the laDo s ImpregDsted with salt, this plsht viii | ,rov to perfection; It Is well adapted to
 ,snUing. The one firm now engaged in
 tanning ,his vegetable Tn LouIsi ma. re ports that 1t is almost impossible tC uppiy the demand for canned srti- chokes.
 | O. sIfslfs, some five crops are cut esc' .s-, and it IS selling 10 SolomonvIlle a' t6 per ton, and barley bay at S20, and Iud-r the present ccIdiaons this cOulo Ie bsled and laid down st 8 profit s
 heldon, on the A S \. NJ. R. R R, hnG upply the mining cen.re that imports from CsIifornIs.
 Al the rrsIdebce of Hon. Geo. H. Ste- ,ens, st Snlomonville. surrounded by ( | ururisnt garden with pleasant sugSes mns of domestic comfort ard prosyer
 ns con'en'ment. you hod q hedge Of of Ossge orsnPc, two ytEs
 Id. i've feet 10 heIsht. SD,
 hree feet tbiek, !sxn Of Bermud'
 grsss, apples. pears. pvsches, figs. grape. aud pomegrRn 7tes ID bearing, and feH | oods away unoccupied govern ment Ian | with the same chartctsr of soil. | It IS not the intention of the writer to | Iiscouut the future, scd SO will only ssy hat where -four sh the grape so much | sinemskinx follow, and lSa curing Uf
 aIsins, for vt ich the olim ,te-iree iron. , es-u admirably adapted, become 6
 ource of future wealth,
 l. would well 'epsy and person wh, a 6 not seen any Uf The practical resuli ffruit-Rrowipg 10 make 8 visit 10 Mr. pedro MicheleDs's ranch ou the nortl -Id@ of ibe G.ls River from Solnmopvill,-, md see what has been accomplished b.
 little experimental gardening. Us, lhe word e1perimeb al for the reaRoI hat the work was iD fact eXpermeuts | when It was undertaken, and lands oi this character, which are now wrftt FIth water rIghts, some BIO per acre
 will before long qusdruple that figure Fruit growing will always be profitable or it is just ss impossible to overstocl he market with fruit ss Ii is to overstoci be market by 8 great product of wheat We find 6 msrket for our wheat a, hom. .. si d re can find @ market for our fruIi sherever we tskeit. We have .s ooc and for peaches. spricots, plums, tiRt and grapes, ss there is 10 tue world, 70, l that hss been demonstrated. S'Ili, ou 'armers stirk ID tne old grooves snd rsIs. wheat and barley alone.
 l seems 10 me vniet thst Grahsn County hss been fortunate ID the favor item of Nature. There is no oIhs -ecrIoH of the Terri .ory where Nstur. uas bet more easily subdusd, or wher greater or equal return has been reRlIz cd ou the same outlay. Notvitbstaud. ing all this, her real resources are but
 TIle better known to-day than they yer, n ka, ka, kBovp until enterprise leads to the l sestmeDt of .ome other under akin. thsn vhes' raising. l do not wish [, 7e understood as combating whest cui iurt it has made the Gila V lly whst
 F. But do contend that diversity e 'rops would make us rlcher sud nor. Jrosperous; snd further contend that iivt rsIty of crops is possible and prnfi's- ble, ard we have but 10 plsnt and v sili resp
 Conn y. on Eagle. Blue and Black Rivers
 od ID the Valleys that nts le a; the foo
 f the Sierra B ancss, which gre no IDsetiled, vlll De found rich, black sIlu. 7sil soil. where can be raised vithou
 rrigsti' D, yellow dent corn, Irish p'ts.
 oes, sud all the fruits and vegetables 0
 Lr kcnpcfAtc LOut.
 The VT ter has seen ou the neighbor- ing White Mountain Reservation, undei ore. isely the same conditions, corn grow 'ng without irrigation that yielded 400
 b.. per acre, snd to the settler of mode rate means who would wish to plant or ohsrds, raise few head Of stock or hogs. Or wt ich h- would ind bouptIful sur- ply of msst, the opportunities are pov oper, sLd with the present developrieni 1f inc mIning interest ID that portion ol
 he c unty. be hhs s market at his doc for sil his surplus produce.
 These valleys lyiug now dormant, wIll ,t DO distant day be chased as valuable -s Kirkland. & ull and Wiliiam.op Val eys in the County of Yavspsi, the valley "f the Salt rIver Of Msrieops' the Gil, Pinsl and the Ssnts Orrz in PIms uop setfled by uerIcsns, ~ho have grown se.lthy under precisely the same eoudI- ions. This part of the County to-ds, 's truly the frontier of civilization, and 800 fsmilie-, with their stock. could s, once locate without interfering with the -isbts of their neiehbors. The raIlIosd rom Lordsbure, New MsIico, to Clifton, 'f,rds easy access to this fertile Territo. l ". unsurpassed in natural sources of !