The oasis., 1893-05-11

of the benefits of cooperation by this I arrangement.
 The quickest and easiest resource of ! all this region is grapes raisin grapes and table grapes The cuttings cost nothing and are planted just where they are to stand 'i'ncy grow won- derfblly and bear prcliiicaly. running as high as five tens to the acre be third year. and from seven to twelve tons us they grow older.
 Raisin making is very simple and easy knack to learn climate like this. md nothing can prevent its be coming one of the greatest raisin producing countries in the world. While oranges and many other fruits pay better they require more time and more intelligence and more expense 10 get q successful start on. Making grais- ins in this region is about like raising potatoes q, Greedy anybody can dOit. but intelligence and expc5ence are not thrown away. It takes abont three ! tons of Arizona grapes to make one ton of raisins and 1t would be conSid- cred poor four-year-old vineyard that
 aid not produce six tons of raW grapes l The raisins are worth from fourto six
 cents pound. wholesale.
 < It is q good business for | woman to undertake. and any clever woman with 1 a small capital can make q sweet little
 home for herself and q comfortable
 income on enc of those little i've acre tracts at .Arizola. For the present
 most of the fruit raised in Arizona k
 dried, and this will continue till com petition reduces the cost of transport
 ation. But the drying of fruit iS profit
 able. and 1t is an occupation peculiarly
 adapted 10 women.
 As remarked before. this Arizola
 enterprise has a public significance in
 a sparsely settled country that it could
 not have in 0nc of the other states
 where things are running in fixed chan- ncls and tine habits of the people are
 welded to the status quo.
 The early tilIcrs of the soil downher were farmers. They raised the ordin- ary farm crops and got wondeful prices for them, but the advent of the rail- roads broke the exclusiyeness of their , market. and they no longer get the , unusual prices obtained in the early , days. But in another direction there f is a greater chance for them-in in the | direction of
 EARLY FRI TT AND vEGET MILES.
 Their market for these products must $ forever remain exclusive Nothing . can alter ij for the simple reason tlat f the products mature and are ready fol z market from two 70 six weeks carliel
 than anywhere else in the United q States.
 l. The many advantages Of tllis arg
 apparent. It is not only that they get
 the cream of the prices which carly t fruit and vegetables always bring. but c they are able to ship these at just tho a time when the railroads are able C e handle them with despatch. and whet q the weather in the Northern market q is cool enough toplcsefye them lngocf
 condition.
 e The fruit and veg table producon h of this region are ablc, heretoT@ I' l. enter not simply the markets of Den e yer. St. Louis and Chicago ahead of 2!
 competitors, but actually those Of sal s Francisco and New Orleans as well. h -Arizola has great 9aTantaseln ne e !rk lceated CT adlrect lire q railreso j. lnd wAe- sts volume U szsI-ne-t- c- <. 5n4i .naI or sls it wE Do s.as V. ,~itS .c rk That isne to tostsTsit bvl44s charge