Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
What There is of Arizona.
Phonix Republican.

To one unaceustomed to the West its greatness and wonderful resources are appalling whom bc first arrives from the East Even many people oi the West do not realize the magnitude and extent of their ncighbOrlng States and Territories Talking with a gentleman from Southern California some time ago, he was asking what there WIS in Arizona outside Of the little fertile valley about phcnix and the mining properties at Tombstone.
 "N hat Is theref' was my reply. Well, that little valley as vou term 1t, about Pheuix contains almost half a million acres of land. It is larger than both the San Gabriel and Cahuenga valleys Tn los Angeles county. combined. Then III Yuma county there is as much more iand, now being rapidly put under cultivation. ! South of Tucson lies the Santa Cruz Val- ] ley with thousands Oi acres of as fine land as the sun ever ahonc on. Tributary to | Florence is over l50O00 acres of land, half of which is now under ditcbes Then there ! is the San Rafael, SOnoita, the Sulphur l SprinmS and other valleys Tn the sOuth.
 The Little Colorado, with all its tributa- rics in the north, the Iiuaipai andsSacra- mento and various others, i'll all, over | 60O0O00 acres of land in Arizona that ere
 
 cultivation As to the mines the Tomb stone district is but small representative of them. Globe, in Gila county, is prob
 ably the best campin the territory to-day,
 Then NOgales down on the line, IS a flour
 ishin2 camp; at Bisbce is the third largest
 copper mine in the world; Clifton is about
 next tO 1t; Prescott Is the center of q dis
 trict In winch over twenty good mines are
 in operation; there are as many more Tn
 MOhavc county Flagstaff IS the center
 of a pine timber belt that Is more than
 half the size of your great big San Diego
 county and besides that her building
 stone is fast becoming the most famous in
 America. In Yavapai county IS the great
 est onyx quarry ever found in the world
 Up near the Colorado river and down
 along the upper border of the TOnto ba
 sin are rich deposits of camel coal while
 over in the White mountains and unfor
 tunately on the San Carlos reservation, is ! bed of anthracite equal to the great de
 posit in Colorado.
 Arizona is the largest cattle producing ! state or territory in the Union. This sur prises you, l know, but 1t Is true. And when it comes to ancient ruins | and spots of historical interest no equa f area on the American continent excel; | AflZOha. Long ages ago long even DeIOft 7 Columbus set sail, it maintained an enor nous population. Along many of the riv f CTS, particularly the Gila and Salt, arC | found ruins of their ditches and irrigation
 works. In Pinal county stand ruins o 5 their Temples with walls four feet thicl 8 that have stood the ravages of time fo ? untold ages and yet remain dumb monu ments to the skill of the ancient races In Yavapai are the still more wonderful ) ruins of tEe cave and cliff dwelleTs. Th, ' greatest canon in the world, that of th' l Colorado, is situated in Arizona "But your climate?'
 } Yes, our climate. We have all tn 7 varieties of California. From the semi , tropic Gila and Salt river valleys to tn t arctic regions of the snow-clad San Fran { cisco mountains. At Yuma and Pheni
 frost is almost unknown. while at Flagstaff 3 1000 feet above sea level, frost is seel b every month in the year. Mountain town s like Tombstone, Prescott. Nogales an - some others have the most perfect climat e imaginable.
 f "You must remember Arizona is nor t than -three-fourths as large as your grea l state of California, and while we are ne' e and comparatively unknown now, we wi
 be successful competitors against you i
 almost all your products ere man | wears" ."