Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-12-31

the Southern Arizona trade, are kill , drled to IJ0 degree before being sen here. This may be another tender toeC 3 argument against Arizona being admit
 ted as a state, but notwithstanding tht
 great heaJ, su1strO 1e is unknown in ATi zona and the atmosphere is SC pure ana ? clear that mountain ranges distant 5( miles seems almost within a stone ,, throw.
 The desert sands gre rich and the des-
 ert suus are hot, but the crops grow
 more in 24 hours than they do in Mary
 land in a month. Two crops year gre
 always grown. The winter grain is har-
 vested in May. The second cVp is
 planted after the summer rains in July
 and is matured and harvested a month before the fall sowing commences. Corn
 tassels in s ;month and DO atoes bios
 sons in r days, from the day If plant ing. Table vegetables are lar enough
 for use In b days from the tins the seed is placed in Ihe sol. Fig treces may be cut evee with the ground in March but in the season following they , will grow from 15 to 20 feet and bear three crops of figs. These are the truths and the truth are but half told.
 The "Desert sands" of Arizona for fruitfulness are equaled nowhere else on the North American Continent. They never wear out, they need no fertiliza- ton, but are up and dressed for a crop at ali times and at all eeasons. Not a pound of fertilizer, which impoverlshes the Maryland farmers to buy, was ever sold in Arizona and presumably never wills be. When the writer came sto Tucson the lands under cultivation were broken to crop with a bent stick, and had been so broken for nearly 250 years, but the crops then as today, were luxuriaut of growth, greater from land after 250 years of continual servitude, than can be produced on virgin soil in the best bottom lands of Maryland.
 AS stock breeding country Arizona IS unmatched. Cattle will breed up to 95 per cent. Up to the age of years their growth is rap,d and stockmen from Montana, Idaho and Wyoming deplste the great herds of the territory for stock cattle. There never was a pound of slall-fed beef ID the markets of this tcwn, but every beef killed was driven from the ranges and thee IS TO city west of the Missouri river that can show fatter or better beef. The grasses Of the t=rrijcry are nutrcioUs and cattle readily fatten on them. The cattle val uation of the territory will reach SlO,- 01O,0OO.
 Arizona is not treeless as stated by ths American. The mesquite is con fined to bottom lands and the palo verde re tbe deserts. but the great pine forests of Arizona cover an area grester than the entire state of Maryland. Any ten year old boy with a rudenentory knowledge of Arizonas could tell the the American that.
 By ray Of internal improvements the territory now has lO74 miles of railroad, l another building and more being survey ed. Her pubic school system Is of the Lest. She has a er.torial university at Tucson and a normal school at Tempe that would be an honor and ! a pride 10 the state Of Maryland, while l public schools are scattered through every hamlet and village in the terri 1 tory. The hand of progress IS abroad l in the land but we want statehood and l we want it bad. We would much pre- fer a republican represents ion but if we cannot get that we pretel d mo rltic senator's to nothing. We want state hood and we are entitled to it on the merits of our territory.
 To such papsrs as tha American we say come and see us before you condem us, then after you have seen us if you must lie about us you can do it intelle- gently. Sabe?