Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-11-16


 the evil and affording holding ground for all kinds of weeds and grass which obstruet the flow more than anything else. With aR equal grade the force of the current will carry along all the mud through the ditches aad QntO the land irrigated; enriching the soil while the ditches are kept open with out labor.
 WEATHER COMMENTS.
 On Monday night the clouds settled down on Mt, Graham dark and iorbod- ing, and the next mornings sun re' vealed a most beautiful sight. The great mountain mass was white with it's snowy mantle more than half way to the valley; and ROW it will carry as nowy canopy until the May suns melt it into laughing crystal streams Nthat will go bounding and leaping in k the thirsty plain below.
 NThe first killing frost was on the ni& &ht of October 30th. Crops have badan unusual immunity from frost tbe Sreseht season; and most of the corn whicb in this valley was planted unusually late, has matured and ripen- ed finely. Our autumn weather is just as near perfection as poor mortals. need expect this-ssiialee- 55fi 5i Paradise.
 We have all ths glories of the Indian summer heightened oEt until it reach es the spring. To tourists from more northern climates in search of health ful place in which to pass the winter in quiet physical enjoyment, we can safely recommend our beautiful val ley of ths upper Gila.
 Remember WE nave ep altitude here in our valleys almost as great ss the very top of the great eastern Appala- chian chain. To those accustomed to slosh around in the mud of a Califor- nia or Southern stats winter, the change to our dry soil where the thin nest shoes can be worn with impunity and in comfort, always dry and com fortable; nothing to induce the con tracing of colds OF catarrh /; and the thermometer just low enough to make winter clothing bearable and neces- sary.
 We challenge the world to A4ow a more attFactive combination pf eli l mate.
 IRRIGATION MATTERS The report of the treasurer of the Montezuma canal company, presented at the meeting of stockholders hefa Saturday. shows that the cost of main taining the canal, including the pay ment of the salaries of the eupermI tendent and secretary, tQx the sea ending November 2nd, 1881, wsss alsI S1,12I.75, and work valued at Sz pc day, $9O4.5O, making Q little over $, per share of the capital stock. Tn large cash expenditure was caused b, the act of incorporation of che com pany and the put-up law suit >inaugu ated by some Tucson attorneSs at tn last term of the district court, who when then the cause GaHe up for tris appeared to be without clients. Never theless, the company had prepared t meet them with some of the best lega talent in the territory and as resul had to pay a good round counsel fec But as it settles the title to their valu able property for all time, it vas no all loss. The Montezuma canal Ina the first right of appropriating. wate from the Gila river; is a. large cana averaging twelve feet wide, with tC tsl length of eight miles main cana and covers one of the best tracts ( land in the valley. Two brancht carry water to the beautiful farms ] the vicinity of Stafford and Layton an a further extension in that directio is talked of. The stockholders are a
 farmers who use the water to irrigat
 their own land. ApotheF year it
 probable the expense will not be mol . than one-half that of last year.
 CARD FROM P. J. BoLAN.
 "It is said that Dan Ming and P.
 Bolan, of Graham county, were accn 2 ed of being implicated in the Wha { robbery. When and where will tn sfkthing end2"-Phenix Gazette. sts Editor Gazette Tn your issue ss,ttf,p 31st, ult you say that "It is sa
 s5sat Dan Ming and P.J. Rolan, 7
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