Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-11-16
A ProspectOr's Notes by thN
 MOhaYe Miner

Leaving the Salt river I turned iif the direction of Florence, After pass ing the last ditch the road led through an open plais covered with quite heavy growth of iron wood and other trees peculiar to this region. I was told that l could get water at.a station on the road where there was a well. I arrived at the we'll in the middle of the afternoon, and learning that there was no water between there and Flor ence, distance of forty miles, con cluded to stop until morning. Whey were hoisting water with a whiln 242 feet, and the man in charge told me they were watering 1S0 head of cattle and 1t took them all the time, day and night, with two mules to do it. There appeared to be plenty of feed but dried up, as they had no rain for month. 1 It is almost incredible what an amount of water an animal will drink under such circumstances. He pointed out an old COW, "there," said he, "is one have timed, she drinks forty gallons q day" They charge travellers twenty five cents span for watering horses, not extravagant considering all things. After leaving the station the road con tinued over an unbroken plain, the soil in every respect as good as that cultivated in tEe Salt river valley.
 Arriving at Florence you descend a short distance into bottom about a mile wide. The Gila is crossed by bridge and the only cultivation as vet IS in this bottom; the soil appears to be an exceedingly rich, black muGld: the crops looked fine. If you were dropped into Florence without know ing where you were you would swear you were in Mexico. the town, the streets, the buildings Sand the peo- pie would convince you that you were not mistaken. If person had visited Florence twenty years ago ae would not see much diffefence to-day. The Mexieans, Ike all spanist-Americans, are not ppshing race, they take the world easy and Ire satisfied if they can make both fa} 1lieet.
 To na <s sNas delightful, as it was the HIz since l came to this ~Ot>SS FIG " v oCCll q ID JhiilSll town. a so natural. There is one err7 to correct, I have heard that the language in Southe In was badly spoken, thlssz7 e# In all the towns I visilaz zhe Spanish remarkably good there were modes of express <6eIaselyes that were new fO m k<f# s<|tHf Spanish would psza i4tnster anywhere A few years will liuitisrss:a great change as there has been exeat diteh takeas out of the river seeeral ixsiAee6h1ve arfII they were busy working ox4 Ii 6ghexI was there. I was told that 83l M " E Y of land had been taken up u|lI2ef la. < Y few years hence there will sBe 5II1 I1|I q and cottonwoods galore. Ials5 4afI,- ed that site had been spryeyed for . storage dam that when conapleteH would be the largest reservoir in fIle, United States, it would 17ake I4la ten miles in length by tNo miles ila,'' width. When it is considered that all the land as yet irrigated in these vai- leys is from the natural flow of the water in its lowest stages, it will be seen at a glance what an important |. part storage water will play in the de- yelppnseaks this country. a5ese
 11<<e often been. asked tiae s,sses=- stioi1 E here won ll be ( snea naiaee fer 1 2. man ok hunted 1nealis f0 Settler I should say tlsat II a man could stand the heat, that Florence and the Gila valley offer the greatest induce ments to such man, as cultivation may be said to have just commenced and that at present he can get land at moderate price. while in the Salt river country land is high. was told while there that for unimproyed. land under the ditch $40 an acre was asked. while in the Gila valley land can De bought for less than tenthI So far as the two valleys are Concerned F could see little to choose, in climate, soil and location they are about equal but the water is better in tue dila val- ley. A man can start in AetssSs6;jiI1i. limited means, grow alfalfa and cotton wood timher and grow up with tie country. siz ] | As for fruit, I am told that peacheEy grapes and figs do we'll asi l1 clg fruits cannot say as lhdEe 56 hnts 7lt: .itsilaBgsn3al q get. osAngea alf5 do I u4I heza hes yill grow liners $ :Ilo < sllzz; s>t kslt II af inferior quality fIley' { wIll be q liftae advantage, it .eannot l be told until thoroughly tried what quality they will be of The aoFange is singular fruit, it will do3rell in some places and in others apparently with the same conditions, 1t will be merely an ornamental tree.
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