The Arizona sentinel., 1892-03-12
Interesting zEogna,zyss Nevvs.
Mohawk, March 3, 1892.

erS but not residents of this favored valley
few words about it will be read with
much interest by them as well as great
many more of your readers.
With the finest land and climate under
the heavens and an abundance of water,
Mohawk valley is beginning to recover
from the objects that has been visited upon
it in the last year or two.
There are fully two thousand acres un der
cultivation here this year. And the grain
and alfalfa are looking as fine as can be
found anywhere in Arizona.
Mr.. Morris is busy planting twenty
acres to vines for Dr. orbes.
Dan Devore has Two hundred acres of as
fine barley as one could wish to look at.
1t stands about two feet high and is so even
that it looks at distance like a well kept
lawn.
The Finley Bros. have in quite lot of
grain and are busy putting in alfalfa.
Fulton and Whartman have about thirty
acres of grape vines that will come in to
full bearing this year and they are busy
setting out forty acres more; they also have
quite an acreage sown to barley.
Mr.. Chappell has in something over
three hundred acres of grain and about
eighty acres of alfalfa.
He has made wonderful showing con-
sidering that he took the ranch in Novem-
Der, and the many drawbacks he has had
to contend with.
Mr.. Klink is busy planting watermelons
and other garden truck which give his
place quite home like appearance.
Mr.. Griswold is clearing and planting
part of his farm to grain, alfalfa and garden.
Valentine Westfall has just completed
new house on the north side of his ranch,
which is quite an improvement to that
part ofthe valley.
On the Dorrington section is about one
hundred and fifty acres of very fine barley,
which can't help but make large crop.
Sunny Side Ranch, the property and
home of Charlie Landon, is the finest look
ing place in the valley and well may Char
lie be proud of it. He has about fifty
acres seeded to grain and alfalfa, and the
barley is heading out, which is splendid
showing for this country. He has ten
acres of vines that will come in to bearing
this summer and is now setting out fifteen
acres more From the way he is building
lawns and laying off flower beds, 1 think he
must have some designs on the gentler sex.
| On each side of his broad and well kept
avenue leading from the road to his house
he has planed to set out more different
kinds of trees and shru BIS than are grown
in the Territory of Arizona.
Just across the road from Mr.. Landon' 8
is the Buena Vista Ranch, on which has
been made many improvements this winter.
Mr.. Clarke is busy seeding large. tract to
alfalfa, and the orc hard and garden on this
place which is under the management OF
G. G. Clarke, show what can be done by a
thorough gardener. They have just fin
ished setting out five acre orange and
lemon orchard, and are now preparing the
ground for large vineyard and nursery,
so that in another year people will not
have to send out of the valley for their
trees and vines. A visit to this place will
well repay one for their trouble.
OnG. w. Norton's ranch, the effects
of last winters food has entirely disap-
peared and his grain, alfalfa and vines are
looking fine. On this ranch are as fine 6
lot Of short horn cattle as can be found in
any country. At the head of his herd is a
full blood CruIckshank bull, which in it,
self is a sufficient guarantee of the breeding
of this herd. George takes great pride IL
his hogs, of which he has goodly lot; o
them, l can't speak so highly as of his cat
tie, but one thing l can say and that i
they can bury themselves deeper in thu
ground in a shorter space of time than an.
razor backs [ ever saw.
Jas. Ryan is busy setting out ten acres il
vines and he has prepared his place in
thorough manner and if his vines don
make good growth it will be no fault o
his.
D. S. Dorm was here short time ago
Mr.. Dorm is president of the canal com
pany, and he made thorough inspection o
it from one end to the other, and we are a.
in hopes his visit here will be the means G
much good to the valley.
Major Dug. Lindlev's wife and he
} brother Hal benson were here for sewers
days last week. the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
L. B. Clarke, of Buena Vista ranch
, Mrs. Lindley was shown over the vale
2 and was very favorably impressed; S
= much so that I would not be at all sui
prised to see her and her family spend sex
eral months here next winter. Mr., Dense
was so taken with the valley that he wi
1 shortly return and locate a piece of land G
q which there is quite lot vacant at presen
With plenty of water which the CAM
company has guaranteed us we will mai
such strides in the orchard, vineyard an
j garden line that we can compare our va
!. ley favorably with the more favored spo
of California. MOHAWK.
: YOH are IN a Bad Fix.