The Arizona sentinel., 1890-12-13
ODDs AND ENps.

- Buckeye Blade.
 If the Kansas colonists start busi- ness in lower California proper, they are likely to strike it rich, but if they go down the Gulf to that Topolobam- DO region, it is highly probable that they will wish they had stayed at home--Pomona, Cal, Courier.
 A Is year-old date tree on Hall Hanlon's ranch, seven miles below Ysma, hassixtcen punches of fruit, one by actual count bearing a hundred dates. An adjoining rancher has just received twelve date trees from the department of Agriculture, and will go into date raising. Hanlon's trees have borne for eight years.--Los Angeles Express.
 Farming country is rapidly develop ing. This winter more land will be plowed than ever. More trees will also be set put than ever before. This shows great confidence by the farmers in the fertility of the soil and that last ye9r's crops pail them handsome profit. The farm is the foundation of wealth and prosperity. Republican. A private letter rec lived from Gal weston says that company Is consid- ering the building of railroad from Tucson to Port Libertad, on the Gulf os California. The rorte has already been determined upon. The road is in the interest of large colonizing company. which has several million acres of land in sonora, Mexico.- Star.
 The valleys of the GiIa river, this Territory, contain excellent land The climate of the lower valleys in Yuma Maricopa, Pinal and Graham couEtles is certainly semi tropic. Frost hurts nothing because there is never much 2f it. We have travelel through a good many of those valleys when they were thought to be useless; now they are sparsrly settled and produce ex cellent vegetables, cereals and fruits of all kinds. Indeed some of the best oranges, lemons, lines and bananas are grown in them.-Prescott Conrier.
 There is going to be, according to the old nountaneers, a heavy winter. They base their opinion on the ani mals, who are making the most ex- tensive preparations fct cold they have made for some years, and the miners say when they make such un- usual preparations hard winter in varlably follows. Snow has already fallen several inches deep in the mountains of Colorado and along the headwaters of the Rio Grande, and inning for the present season is prac- tically suepended'-K Kingston Shaft.
 Arizona has some of the richest soil in the Union, but it needs water. Since Arizona has been a Territory the officials have turned over $63,000, 900 over and above the government expenditures in the Territory. With this fact Tn view the people of Arizona are justified in the belief that Uncle Sam will contribute a little toward the development of the Territory. One quarter of a million expended in ar. tesixn wells and water ways will bring into cultivation hundreds of thousands of acres of barren desert land and afford farms for population of l00- 900 more people.-Prospector.
 Acting Governor Murphy wrote to the Department of Agriculture re- spectfully calling the attention of Hon. Secretary Rusk to the necessity existing Tn Arizona for further ir- rigation facilities, whether by artesian wells or otherwise.
 An answer has just been received from the department, in which Assist ant Secretary Willitts says
 "Your letter of the l7th. ult, with relation to artesian irrIgations now a subject of inquiry by this department, is at hand and will be referred to our agents in the field, with instructions to visit Arizona and make an examln- ation of the conditions, the result to be laid before Congress, as required by the law under which we are now act ing. Phoenix Herald.
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