Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-03-10

Average annual temperature. IZ.Z
s. How does the heat affect one? A
temperature OF 80 degrees in the east
ern states is far more prostrating and
dangerous than the highest tempera-
ture experienced in the Salt River val
ley.
8. What is the cause OF the differ
ence? The absence of humidity in the
atmosphere.
10. What is the average rain fall ?
Six and thirty-seven one-hundredth
inches, confined principally to the win
ter months.
IL. Does it rain continually during
the winter? Only day or two at a
time, with intervals OF weeks OF cloud
less weather.
~. Are the storms violent? Thun-
der and lightning are very rare. Cy-
clones and wind-storms are unknown.
Is. Are earthquakes ever expert
enced? Slight shocks have been known,
but not as frequently as in the Mssis-
sippi valley.
IA. How are lung and throat diseases
affected by the climate? Most favor
ably; this valley IS a natural sanitarium.
The worst cases, both from the east and
west, come here with the most beneficial
results, many OF them being perman-
emily cured. The climatic desideratum
in pulmonary diseases is mild and dry
climate. Southern California has a
mild climate, but it is not dry. Colo
RADIO has a dry climate, but it is not
mild. The Salt River valley has a eli
mate at once mild and dry. Eminent
specialists now recommend the Salt
River valley in pulmonary diseases.
10. DO malarial or epidemic diseases
prevail? Less than in any other part of
the United States. The dryness OF the
atmosphere is unfavorable to the trans
mission of disease germs.
Is. Are there any poisonous reptiles?
Yes, in the adjacent mountains, but ir-
rigaiion drives them away from the
cultivated lands.
II. To what productions is the val.
ley adapted? To all those of all the
eastern and northern states, besides
many Of those OF tropical countries.
Orange Judd, editor of the Prairie
Farmer, after visit to the Salt River
valley, says of its soil, editorially:
'Most OF these valley soils are the ac-
cumnlated washings from the surround
ing hills, made up of the fine particles
that have been, during countless CEN
iuries, disintegrated by frost, or the
chemical action of the atmosphere.
The water he (the farmer) uses is also
charged with new fertility, thus pro-
duced annually and gathered from the
sides OF the mountains scores and hun
dreds Of miles away, 30 that every flow
ing OF the land benefits it This
is no theoric idea. We have seen thou
sands Of acres here growing crops that
rival in luxriance those found in the
famed valley OF the Nile, which derives
its vivifying liquid, bearing iertilizing
elements, from the far off lands in upper
Egypt and beyond. This valley
OF the salt derives its righteousness
from the mountain regions OF interior
arid Arizona"
The special committee of the United
States senate, report 92S, part /, May
8, 1890, page go, says: "Within our
border there cannot be found soil so
uniformly fertile and 80 capable OF
varied production, under irrigation, as
that OF the ella, Salt and Santa Cruz
rivers, in southern and central Arizona.
Analysis of this soil shows it's fertile
qualities to be superior to that OF the
Nile EARTH"
Is Is the coil durable? As nearly
inexhaustible as any known soil. The
Msricopa Indians, remnant OF semi
civilized tribe, have raised wheat upon
some of these lands continually since
the advent Of the early mission in the
seventeenth century.
10. Do all soils require irrigation
Yes; the rain fall being insufficient to
produce any crop without irrigation.
20. How is water applied for irriga-
ton? For grain and alfalfa, water is
applied by flooding the entrire surface of
the land between borders, usually 80
feet apart. For fruit, it is run in fur
rows near the trees or vines.