Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-01-26
FINAL COUNTY.
One That is Making Rapid Advancement and Attracting Attention of Home Seekers and Those seeking Invest
 


 Every report that comes from Flor ence and other points confirms the fact that Pinal county is making rap i'd advancements in everything that promises the future prosperity of it's people, MT Joseph H. Kibbey, man. ager of the Florence Canal, and Mir Pogue, president of that company, were both in Tucson a few days since, and they speak in the highest terms of the many Improvements, both pub lie and private, that are now being carried on by the enterprising people of that county. Pinal to-day is one of the richest counties in Arizona. Its great mineral wealth, now being daily converted into bullion, bids fair to be soon overtaken and passed by those | engaged in agriculture. While its mountains wherever scratched sparkle with the outcropping precious metals, its valleys are no less promising to | those in search of wealth. There is no better or richer lands to be found under the sun than those lying under | the Florence canal, which is now a l l San Pedro valleys contain as rich land as there is in Arizona. Water is abun- dant in both streams and when prop erly utilized, nearly every acre of till able land can be irrigated. The Flor ence canal alone when completed will carry enough water to irrigate over 125 900 acres of land and during last year over 50,000 acres of land along this canal were filed upon by intend ing settlers. From MT. Wm. E. Guild, clerk of the board of supervisors, 1t was learned few days ago, that not less than 20 desert sections have already been reclaimed and that final proofs will be made the coming spring.
 One of the new enterprises now be- ing contemplated and which will un doubteily. be consummated, as 1t is en- tirely feasible at 8 comparatively nom- inal expense, Is the damming of huge gulch by the Florence canal company, from which can be drawn during the dry season, water sufficient for the ir- rigation of not less than 10000 acres ot land which cannot be covered by the canal.
 The soil in Pinal county, like that of all sections of southern Arizona, will grow luxuriantly every product of the temperate zone, while all the semi tropical productions attain great per lection in the Gila valley. II has been suggested that ii the farmers along the Florence canal would cross-cut their fields with furrows at right an gle with the dip of the land, so the
 water, during the rainy season, would be preserved from running off so quickly, it would absorb and retain enough moisture as to require but little irrigation in the spring and sum-
 mer to ensure full crops.
 While this wonderful advancement has been made during the past year
 by those interested i'll agriculture and the tilling of the soil, the city of Flor. ence has made a no less marvellous stride towards future greatness. The , people of Florence possess a pride sel-
 dom encountered, and during the past
 year many new business houses anC
 residences have been built. Its peo
 pie are public spiri ed and ever ready to assist those who go among then , with the intention of investing in $ home, or engaging in mining Cr othel : legi innate pursuits. The public busi : ness of the county, while conduct sc ' on plan oi broad hberSlity that ha : kept it up to every need and provided : everything necessary to its advance e ment, has been economical at ever,
 point, and as result to-day it ha
 scarcely any indebtedness and it's ta,
 levy Is as low as any other in the ter ritory. Truly. Pinal county has mucI ' of which her people should be proud e and which is quite naturally envis by sections of the country less fortu > nate.-Citizen.