Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-12
IRRsGATIoS,s WORK.
The Most Productive Sections of the World A Those That Practice the-Artificiai Ap-
 piIcatiOn Of Water
 Wonderful Results.
1Phenix Gazette. l

The most prosperous fruit lands in the world, where the greatest results flow from mans efforts, are in countries where irrigation IS extensively practiced. Since the dawn of creation, or as soon after as mankind ascerta aimed that he must labor in the fields and produce to keep the wolf from the door, irrigation has been prac- tlced; centuries agone on the Nile banks the lands were remarkable for then wonderful productivepess, bat the beau tiful sloping lands beyond were worth less and sterile until that grand river, with a tremendous rush, overspread thousands of acres of the surrounding country and the transformation became magical This rich soil, which had ouly been waiting for the friendly clasp of the, waters which rolled by for centuries, at once began to show its appreciation of natures gift by the production in abund ance of wild fruits and grains winch have long since caused the oloen valley to be aptly termed the ''granary of the ancients," and from this accidental over flowing of the Nile the natives first be came inbued with the bsnehts of irri gatiOn, in which they have since become proficient. The artificial application of water for farming purposes antedates civilization in he rld; long before he shores of North America were sighted by the ventur, some Europeans; ages before that intrepid Genosean, Colum bus, Was r cked in the cradle of infancy, the nat yes O this country (prob,bly Peruvians) were tlilng the soil in Arzoua and Sonora by the aid of irrigatnng ditches. Thus it will be seen that the productive qualities uf the soil remain unimpared by ages or use when water Is used for irrig Ating purposes.
 The soil nf this valley, under the pres ent splendid system and improved me hUds of irrigation, IS absolutely m- exhaustlble which old and exhausted farming lands in the east cannot ever hope to possess. The annual flow of water over these valley lands not only furnishes fertilizer which gradually ell riches the soil, but also makes the annual crops surety. No anxious ssor sleepless nights waiting the adven5 of rain; no uu- eertaintles or ''oH' years, as he streauls high up m the mountains of neighbor- ing states and territories where the an- nual snow fall forms one of the few certaintles of the country, send their welcome and cooling waters down to do service in our beautiful valley. and furn- ish never failing and abundant supply tor farming and other purposes. Thus 1t vii be seeh at as glance what marvellous resources aud advantages this valley Is endowed with-advant,ges unsurpassed by any other section of the country im America.
 The older states such as Florida and California snow up tnelr osautifui orange groves a.d vineyards to greater advant- age because years of toll and expenditure of large sums of money in that direc- ton has made it possible for this hign state If cultivation to exist Years of labor has brought prosperity aud devel- opment to that country and 1t will do likewise to this valley. We cannot nor do not hope to rival older countries for a few years, but we are fast assuming the vigor of age and the virtue and standard of older sections, and not many years will pass by before this valley will out rank the most pretentious fruit sections of this union.