Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-09
TERRITORIAL NEWS
Pertinent Facts About Arizona,
 Which Should be Pre-, erved.
Courier.

Courier
 Arizona has about 114,OOO squar
 miles of territory, much of which is tim bored. Her territory is made up of val
 ley, table and mountain lands. Tn
 climate of her lowest valleys Is warm but healthy. The mesa and foothil portion is temperate; high mountain
 cool during Il few winter months. Lowe
 valleys produce oranges, lemons, grape
 and other fruits, sugar, cotton, wheat
 barley, alfalfa, etc, without irrigation
 save m very dry years.
 | Horses, cattle and sheep do we'll iL
 every portion of the territory. Just now
 in Prescott, which is about 6,400 feet
 above the sea level, our people complain of heat for about two hours of the day
 but people who reside in lower attitudes and who come here make sport of them for grumbling at such enjoyable weath CT.
 The territory is divided into ten coun- | ties, mostly named after tribes or In \ dians.
 | In 1863, when the territory was organ | ized there were about 300 white alen in | it and not more than ten white ladies. It has at present between forty and | fifty thousand whites, amO"R whom are | thousands of beautiful an P.coI- plish ed white ladies.
 The principal towns are ?~aa"":t Phe- nix, Tucson, Tombstone, ;.,.--..r, Yu- ma, Wilcox, Bisbee, Flagstaff, KIngman. Williams, St. Johns, Holbrook, Soloman- vile, Clifton, Tempe, Gila Bend and Buckeye.
 Our largest rivers are the Colorado (navigable), Gila, Salt, San Pedro, Verde, Francisco and Santa Cruz High mountain ranges are San Fran. cisco, Bill Williams, Mogollon, Sierra Blanco. Graham, Chiricahua, Dragoon, Santa Rita, Rincon, Huachuca. Natanes, Sierra Ancha, Pinal and Four Peaks Largest agricultural valleys, the Salt, Gila, Verde, Colorado, San iedro, What one section lacks another has, so that few north and south railroads are alone required to make ''the state self supporting"
 Our school system is frst-class, or eastern scholars and publications would not have said so.
 Considering that owing to the want of quick modes of communication the peo- pie of the different sections do not get together very often, there is very little sectional feeling.
 "Politics," as the saying goes, do not run high"
 Our people have done pretty we'll, con- sidering Indian wars and local federal misrule through which they haze pass ed.
 The latter is with them. It is more gallant than ever before. It is almost unbearable, so that from Colorado to Stein's Peak from Nogales to Zuni, the prayer of our people is for speedy deli verance from the rule of federal satrap who has set the people of hls own party by the ears and nullified the organic act of the territory.
 Really Prosperous, Graham County Bulletin. People coming to the Gila valley for the first time, are struck with wonder and admiration by the evidences to be seen on every hand of the wonderful ad- vancement that has recently been made by our people. Farm after orchard, pasture after village; and there are more brick buildings on the road between Solomonville and Fort Thomas, than can be found on any twenty eight miles of road in Arizona or New Mexico. The farmers all have comfortable and at tractive homes, with well-built walks from the road, bordered with beautiful trees, shrubbery and blooming beds of flowers; all demonstrating that the coun- try will grow everything necessary for the comfort of man. The grainfelds have just yielded fine crops of wheat hor ard hafnO vnla ta1 in corn, making tive crops of grain in one year, while from the alfalfa land the third crop of hay is being cut. Every to be seen. There are yet thousands of ing of other settlers in search of homes. They will be here when 1t is made known that We have such wonderful ad vantages, where mans labor is rev arded by abundant returns of the necessities as we'll as the luXuries of life. A large amount of land Is being entered and this will continue and increase until the country between San Jose and Fort Thomas will be solid blocks of cultivat- ed tielks, yielding products sufficient to support population of twenty thousand people.
 Hill of Indian Red Paint,
 Florence Moral and Scientific Companion.
 The Pima and Papago Indians obtain ill plentiful quantities superior quality of the red paint from the red gravel hills south of Florence. It is the same kind used by the extinct race of Arizona, and will endure centuries of exposure with out fading. The Indians mix the gravel in the water and pour the red, turbid liquid into shallow dish; then either the precipitate is used and the hquid poured off Shen clear, or else the entire liquid is evaporated and red deposit is obtained in that way. There are other sources of the various shades and qaali- ties of the red paint used by the Indian, but the best IS of mineral origin.
 Paint extracted frem red gravel is used for the most part to color the native h. dian pottery. It is sometimes seen Tn grotesque streaks on the face of MT. To. and his clothing is often dyed to ma ch. Oil is seldom used with their paints.
 TEMPE NEWS.
 News
 The total rainfall for the month of July amounts to one and three-quarter
 
 inches.
 On Thursday during the rain storm the mercury fell to sixty-si degrees. Think of that ye sweltering denizens of of the east. Come to Arizona and cool of.
 The News force returns thanks to Mir J. T. Priest for basket of delicious Early Crawford peaches. Mir. Priest raises the finest fruit in the valley. c. J. Ulmer is busily engaged making necessary repairs on the normal school building which, with the grounds is to be placed in first class condition. The entire tract will be fenced in; drives and walks will be laid of, and at the proper season trees and shrubbery will be set out.
 On Wednesday, in the district court, a judgement was rendered iii the case of