Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
Our Soil and Climate.
Buckeye Blade

The area of the Buckeye country is suf- ficiently large when brought under prop CT cultivation. for sustaining a population of l50,0G0. The density of population of many European countries exceeds this ratio. But if we draw a contrast between our section and any of the European coun- tries as regards soil, climate and diversity of agricultural and horticultural produc- tions, we find q prepondcrance of agencies in Our favor. In the countries of North em and Central Earope, whose climate conaI1arca-A -AAitL-otIH Northern and East ern states, the agricultural pursuits are confined tO the growing of vegetables and cereals, which require the fcrtilizing of the lands each year. As we look at the plo- duction of cereals in this section we find that the quantity per acre largely exceeds any of the European committees even the northern part of the United States while our irTigating process always insures a full crop and adds to the fertility of the soil SO that age does not necessitate the using of fertilizers. This Is fully demon strated by the Pima Indians, who from time immemorial have cultivated grain on the Gila river and whose crops of the present time will be found to equal those of their neighbors on virgin soil.
 Nature has befriended us more than | any other sectien of the globe, in the | suitableness of climate rot only for the cultivation Of the products of northern and temperate climes, but those of the ] tropics and semi-tropics as well, viz i oranges, figs, dates, olives, pine apples. pomegranates and the different varieties i of grapes. The sugar cane and cotton | plant of the~trOpics, grow also in profus- l ion in the same field with those enumer- ated above. Thus we see our farmers here need not confine themselves to the growing of any one product, as the divers ity to select from IS ample to suit the taste of all If one has been accustomed tC | the raising of hay, wheat. oats, barley and all kinds of fruit he can do so here with better results than can be obtained in any other part of the United States If one has spent his early life on cotton planta- ton, and should like to follow the raising of that snowy plant, he can do so here, as it has been proven by the sample shipped to the New Orleans Exposition, as being of the first quality. If the Louisiana sug
 ar planter who has to contend against overilows, and would like to leave his ma
 tive State, he can find lands here as fer
 tile and more suitable for the cultivation of sugar cane than in Louisiana, while his market would be much better.
 When we speak of raising the product; of the tropics, the inference may be draw
 by people at a distance, that our valleys
 along the Gila river are deadly laden witt
 malaria, that chills and fever would bt
 sure to be encountered, with swamps
 alligators and mosquitoes in the back ground To such coniectures we woult say, nothing of that kind in Arizona
 We have no swamps, stagnant water ant decaying vegetation to reedmalaria, mos quitoes or aliigators. Men sleep in tent on the banks of the Gila the year roun,
 and are never troubled with any form O
 malaria The climate of the winter month
 IS as delightful as in the tropics, while tn
 summer months are warm yet no cases c
 sunstroke have been recorded, such a 7 the Northern and Eastern states had oC l casion to do this summer