Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-17
The Land of Promise.

The Land of Promise.
 MT. F. N. Barrett, the editor of the American Grocer, recently paid visit tl the far west. Like all observing m n, he noted down his impressions as he went along and the result has been a most interesting budget of reading matter for his subscribers Arizona comes in for very large share of praise. We have no room for it all but give few extracts:
 "I must skip New Mexico and ask forbearance while I say something about Arizona. This territory is with, in twenty-five square miles the area of New York, Pennsylvania, New ter sey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, which five states contain 100000 or more inhabitants, while Arizona has about 50,000; the guide-books say 10000. Said D. o. Riordan, man. ager of the Arizona Lumber Co.,: Every mile of the way is full of never ending interest, which does not cease with familiarity My experience con- firms his statement. It is the land of of wonders, the land of promise, the fusure homes of tens of millions, where they can enjoy a climate that would captivate the gods Five min utes in Flagstaff, a typical frontier town, gave the impression 1t was so located that its growth to a great city was sure. l found at the station sev- eral New Workers, whose invitation to spend the Sabbath at Al ranch, owned by the Arizona Land & Cattle Co.,, was so urgent and cordial that I ac- cepted. This ranch covers 246 900 acres and so controls the water supply that it's cattle can graze on 100000 acres. Nearly one-half of this prop erty is covered by pine timber. All day long one can ride through natu- ral parks that throw into insignifcance the finest portions of Central and Pros pect Parks. Undulating hills, with little valleys between them that widen out upon larger valleys, presenting views of surprising loveliness. At ' A. NJ. temperature is 40oF F. The headquarters are at fort with corral built by the Mormons in 1877, in the center of a valley containing nine square miles, fringed on three sides with low, billowy, pine, covered hills on the fourth guarded by Mounts Agassiz and Humphreys, towering 13,- 900 feet or over, beneath such a blue sky as to charm Italy, their snow-cap- ped peaks defying the power of the sun, which at mid day sends waves oi heat racing over the surrounding. plains and valleys. The antelope browse or the forests edge: the cattle on the plain. Here is soil thirty, forty, fiji ty or more feet in depth, rich as it car be. Water is found in abundance al a depth of twenty-one to twenty-si, feet. On the way to the ranch we pass log hut located in basin shap ed valley, the house of bachelor who has taken up quarter section Last year he made $3,000 growing veg etables and other stuff for the homt market. Potatoes command 25 to i cents per pound. And now my faitf IS taxed and in turn must tax yours In Arizona fonr pound potato is !: common affair, while one weighiny eight and one quarter pounds, statement, while certified to, never theiess made me remain a doubtin! Thomas, for 9 cents for one potato il Arizona, while eastern farmers wer glad to get that sum for one bushel was too much of good thing. 1 re peated the story to the wife of a rancl owner in California, when she replied Why that's nothing; the other da, one sweet potato suficed to serve six
 teen people and then it was not use'
 up.' Well, 'Ill be giggered,' as MI
 Holt says; but hold when the secon
 story was repeated in Pomona, Vel
 mont Congregationalist certified t
 beet weighing forty pounds, and tn
 next day Mr. Cook, of Cook X Langley
 Los Angeles, stated he had seen sweet potato weighing eighty-sevet pounds. This statement was indorse
 by H. Jevne, a grocer, as under rathe
 than over. Why said he, I hay
 seen watermelon that weighed 15 pounds and that was not the larges grown By the time I reach Sal
 Francisco I anticipate that one wi make a carload.
 "To return to Arizona. One ca
 stand on the Black Buttes of Souther
 Arizona and see in sight 1000, 0,000,0 % feet of lumber. There is timber be in the territory eighty miles long an an average of thirty miles in widtl How is it covered? By pine chief. a sort, however, that does not dreE well, and which some claim is nc lasting. On one section, GAO acre .. 8,6S0 trees, of diameter of Is incht and over were counted And such Ian as we have described was fooled ava
 by the railway company for less tha $1 per acre. The Aztec ranch-1, ,00C 900 acres-secured its land, part! timbered, for 60 cents per acre."