Tombstone daily epitaph., 1889-09-07

the ripening of the grain. Oats sell at from $2.5O to $3 per 100 pounds, and oat hay always commands ready sale at $l5 to SIS per ton.
 Corn yields e good crop and always
 finds ready market.
 Potatoes planted upon the bottom or valley lands do not do as we'll or yield as large crop e in the foothills near the mountains, where the quality is far better and the quantity much larger, the average yield being from
 10 to IF tons per acre.
 Sweet potatoes are raised in the lower valley lands and are very pro- life, more % than the Irish potato. Beans can be raised upon both the valley and table lands, and are consid- cred sure crop, and average l,500 pounds per acre. They sell for from S3 to A per 100 pounds.
 We have not in this report been able to give the production per acre of grapes, or the different varieties of fruit, as there have been thus far no large vineyards or orchards, but esti- mating the yield by the different bear ing vines examined, it would be over , 3,OOO pounds of fruit per acre for grapes, and for apricots and peaches fre tons per acre.
 Squashes, pumpkins, melons. cu- cumbers and all varieties of vegetables give large returns for the labor in ra;s- ing them, and bring ready market.
 Among the varieties of hay culti- vated are millet and alfalfa. Millet can be cut four or five times per year and averages two tons to the acre, and readily $l3 per ton. Alfalfa, being one of the most profitable grasses raised, has nearly supplanted all oth- CTS. It Is cut four or five times year and averages from one and three fourths to two tons per acre, and sells for $14 per ton. Besides the large number of acres grszed, there is cut in the San Pedro, Sulphur Spring and San Simon valleys thousands of tons that command at all times ready sale Where the alfalfa fields are grazed it will support two head of cattle or horses the year round, or about six head of sheep or hogs, to the acre, and the uniform price charged for pasturing cattle or horses is one dollar per head per month. Alfalfa, cut and fed from ricks, will keep three head of cattle per acre through the year.
 The native hay that grows so luxu- riantly upon the rolling hills and in the many flat washes throughout the county, and ripens in so short a time after our summer rains, produces from one to two tons per acre and brings from $13 to $15 per ton, and finds a ready market.
 The markets for the products raised in this county are ct the military posts, and in the towns and various mining camps, which readily consume all the products produced and for sale.
 The grazing interests have not been mentioned in this report, for if there ever was a paradise for the stockman it is in this county, and should any of your committee ever visit this county you would be surprised to see the thousands of cattle grazing along our foothills and the fat beeves that hang in our markets.
 TIMBER AND WOOD.
 There is in the Huachuca and Chir- icahua mountains considerable pine timber, and that can be and is used for mine rmbers, and sawed into di- mension lumber. Oak and juniper are found in abundance in all the mountain ranges. Mesquite, which is extensively used for wood, is found upon the mesas and bottom lands. Cottonwood trees are planted around the buildings for the purpose of shade, as they are of quick growth, but will soon be superseded by trees of slower growth, that are more valuable for timber and wood. Oak, juniper and mesquite are used for fence posts and fire wood, the price being for fire wood, where it has to be hauled 10 or twelve miles, $7. 50 to $l0 per cord. The cost of wood upon most of the ranches is comparatively nothing, simply the time to cut and haul 1t short dis tance, which in most cases is the clear ing of their own fields.
 The above facts have been gathered from what is now produced and culti- vated, with not one-half the attention that should be paid to the care and cultivation of any crop. With proper care in the construction of dams and careful ditching and care in the distri- button of water, more than three times the lands could be prOitably cultivated along the San Pedro and in the Sul- pinur Spring and San Simon valleys the amount cannot be told.
 The mining camps and mining in-