Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-09-29
Industrial Progress.

Arizona is increasing in wealth and population. Although property is not assessed for more than third of its value yet the rolls for this year will show nearly $30,000,000. The barri- CTS which for a generation closed our doors to immigration and capital have been removed, and brains, brawn and Is coming to us to assist in developing the latent industries which will, in few years, make us rich and powerful state Mines are being opened, canals are being dug, water storage companies are being con constructed and railroad system is being perfected that will soon, by giv- ing cheap transportion, create ready markets for our ooal, lumber, copper, | agricultural and horticultural pro- ducts
 In five years time thousands of |. acres in Yavapai' and Apache, now used for grazing will be utilized by the 1 thrifty husbandman. Where practic- able, artesian wells will give the fluid that invests the arid plains with fertile vigor of restored productiveness. The waters from our running streams will
 be used upon the adjacent lands, the
 mountain canyons will be turned to
 lakes where the precious water will
 be stored for the uses of the husband
 man.
 Any one doubting the assertion that
 Arizona has a great future before her
 as an agricultural state has only to visit the Salt and Gila river valleys.
 Let him see what irrigation, yet in its
 infancy, has done for the counties of
 Maricopa and Pinal Let him note
 the transformation which canals have
 made ill what a few years ago was l known as part of the Great Ameri-
 can Desert. In the Salt river valley
 100000 acres of land has been reclaim ! ed, an equal amount in the valley of
 the Gila, with 600,000 acres more in
 process of reclamation. Land, the
 most productive in the world, where all fruits, both citrus and deciduous,
 can be grown to perfection; where
 dates, figs, olives, oranges, lemons,
 grapes and every orchard product of
 the temperate zone is at home. Land
 20 acres of which, when planted in
 trees or vines gives an annual income
 sufficient to keep the thrifty horticul-
 turist in affluence, buy his daughter a
 piano and send his boys to college.
 Then let him look at the orchard of
 Clough, and eat the peaches of Lynx
 creek, test the melons and grapes oi
 the Verde, and among our mountain ranges seek out a home where a few , acres can be cultivated in fruits and l vegetables, in confidence abiding the time when he will reap a rich return upon the investment made in labor
 time and money.
 f Aside from the thousands of acres F of grazing land and mineral and tim Der lands in this county, we have no l less than 1 ,000, GOO acres of virgin soi f that can be proftably cultivated il $ cereals, grasses, vegetables and fruits 5 Sufficient to give happy homes to 100, - OOO people. The same may be said o |, Apache and to some extent of Mohav, 7 counties. All thatis needed is bet 7 ter energy on the part of our moneye, : men to inaugurate irrigating enter !, prises. Arizona is beginning to be re e garded favorably by capitalists Il | St. Louis, Chicago or any of tn - money centres, money is plenty fo S investment in any practicable schem h for irrigation and reclamation of des
 ert lands. All that our business me ', would have to do is to demonstrate 1t -- feasibility and practicability to be abl n to command all the money necessar e to completion of any enterprise, n S matter how great, having this object i , view.
 t Railroads we will have, and that i tt the near future Railroad men ar u watching the industrial developmer r. of Arizona and preparing to reap the l. share of the benefits to be derive l. therefrom. A north and south lir o from PheniX to Prescott and frol Ie Prescott to the terminus of the Uta le Southern, Is among the first that wi a. be constructed. This will give ot
 southern neighbors market for tho g. hay, wheat, barley, flour, vegetable 1t and fruit; it will give us a market fC at our coal, lumber and other product le it will make Prescott the summ r. camp of the Maricopas and Phen
 the winter resort of the Yavapais. le will make the union of the north ar of south complete, for 1t will be unic 2e of mutual interests and reciproc; It benefits that petty jealousies cam if disturb
 e. Thousands of people are tired of u le hand to mouth life upon northwestel h. farms. They read the glowing a fi- counts of the climate, soil and pr ar ductiveness of northern and southeI l. California, and many are tempted is pull stakes and start for the new Eld IT, rado. To all such we say, on yo ,s- way west stop and give Arizona a ca CT We can give you cheaper lands, bett i'd climate and more productive soil tn;
 any state or territory in the west. i'll No place offers more or better IS. ducements to the investor or hom in seeker. The man of either class mu Id be hard to please who cannot be suit, re in Arizona, rich, as she undoubted a is, in all the varied resources that bui le up states and create empires.-Prt es colt Courier.
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