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\ Star repcy to ralse that Mr. Chas F. hofEF 4lr.ft5 Bedrained Bedtrta esdel~to Mir. Bullook's ranch 15 miles from town, to take a look at MT B's orange grove and to get some facts and information as to how to grow them successfully. went to his office to glean some facts from him, resulting from his investigations.
 MT. Hoff said: "Yes, went out to MT. Bullock's ranch yesterday. and to return home agreeably surprised at the success that attended Mr. Bullock in setting out about 50 orange trees, which ne shipped in here from Sonora. He set these trees out in 1881, irrigated them and provided for safety from frost by getting some old barrels and placing the same over the trees, and covering the barrels with straw; and this WAS only done for the first two years. after which time they have been unprotected but they are as thrifty as any tree can be in California. Sonora or Flor- da. Every tree set ont IS now growing, and all are full of oranges, some trees having as many as two thousand oranges on them. It is lovely sight to behold, especially in Arizona, and have never seen any
 thing to surpass it, either in Arizona, Cal
 ifornia or Sonora. It IS true that these oranges are sour; but that was the mis- take of the shipper, by sending the wrong variety: still this does not matter, for the trees are thriving and all that has to be done is to get some good stock and bud them, when they will be equal to any
 raised Two or three of these trees are
 good and sweet, establishing beyond a
 doubt the claim that l make.
 What is my object in looking into this
 question? It is that I am going to set
 several acres of trees on my ranch three
 miles from Tucson, and only intend to
 raise such fruit which is the best and most available, such as oranges, lemons, walnuts, almonds, olives, and figs. l do this for two reasons The first is to
 make money out of its directly, and the second Is to make money out of it indi- rectly, by showing the people of this ter ritory what can be done with an Aefmo !, tor windmill. which is the only practical machinery for artificial irrigation, as win6 is the cheapest element. I am going tC
 set out ten acres of trees this coming
 spring, and had intended to set out more
 in orange trees, but had to abandon tha
 idea on account Of that pernicioul a measure called the Mckinley bill as tha
 bill imposes a duty of 20 per cent oi
 nursery stock, while under the old law i
 was free. This Is what they call en | couragement for home industry. Sonor;
  $ have well 125 feet deep, and have al |. inexhaustble supply of water. hay, g pumped with 8 steam pump over 800 r. gallons of water. I intend to erect | l. foot Aermotor and construct tank tha a will hold 100000 gallons of water, and le is this mill pump all the time, never have n shut of, and whenever the tank is ful + and there is lots of wind, empty it, thoug e the trees would not require 1t. This tan e per each "tsriff" would irrigate l5 acre e in fruit trees, and under ordinary circuln O stances it would only require-with l. wind at the rate of b miles per hou g which is the averageei in Arizona fort
 eight hours to fiji this two hundre h thousand gallon tank. I work two pump g with one mill, which explains this, an s, the Aermotor is the only windmill is el d istence that can do this successfully, o IS account of its being geared back, three h. one, which allows the mill to make lonl B, smooth and easy stroke.
 il Mir. Fuller, the gentleman who hf W cared for the orange trees on Mir. Bu q, locks ranch. and who knows all aboI a the culture of them, asserts positiyel le that the mesa on which 1 am located i- far superior for orange culture than tf CT soil and location where these have bee sn grown so successfully. It may be su
 prising to some of your readers to hear a a beautiful orange grove within 15 mil sn of Tucson, yet every one agrees that q e. most any kind of fruit can be raised su lie cessfully in this county
 e. Yes sir, certainly I should be pleased ys take you out to my place in two or thr, k months from now and show you what c; c- be done in Arizona. and especially ne 1t. Tucson, on the mesa, which land the 0 in settlers thought useless.