Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-03-02

Highest temperature. .,..... ll5.b
Lowest temperature. ... 22.5
Average annual temperature 1872
8. How does the heat affect one2 A
temperature OF 90 degrees ia the east
ern states is far more prostratine and
dangerous than the highest temporal
ture experienced in the Salt River val
ley.
8. What is the cause OF the differ
enee2 The absence Of humidity in the
atmosphere.
10. What is the average rain fall
Six and thirty-seyen one-hundredth
inches, confined principally to the win
ter months.
IL. Does it rain continually during
the winter7 Only a day or two at
time, with intervals Of weeks Of cloud
less weather.
II. 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 az frequently as in the Missis-
sippi valley.
IA. How are lung and throat diseases
affected by the climate? Most favor
ably; this valley Isa 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 10 not dry. Colo
RADIO has a dry climate, but il is not
mild. The Salt River valley has eli.
mate at once mild and dry, Eminent
specialists now recommend the Salt
River valley In pulmonary diseases
Is. DO malarial or epidemic diseases
prevail? Less than in any other part OF
the United States. The dryness OF the
atmosphere is uniavorable 70 the trans
mission OF disease germs.
10. Are there any poisonous reptiles2
Yes. in the adjacent mountains, but ir-
rigaiion drives them away from the
cultivated lands.
IL. TO what productions is the val.
ley adapted2 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:
cumulated washings from the surround
ing hills, made up OF the dne particles
that have been, during countless CEN
turtles, 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 flew
ing OF the land benefits it = This
is no theoric idea. We have eeen thou
sands OF acres here growing crops that
rival ia luxriance those found in the
famed valley OF the Nile, which derives
its viviiying 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 OPS, part /, May
8, 1890, page go, says: within our
border there cannot be found soil 20
uniformly fertile and so capable Of
varied production, under irrigation, as
that OF the ella, Salt and Santa Cruz
rivers, in southern and central Arizona.
Analysis OF this coil shows its fertile
qualities to be superior to that OF the
Nile earth"
is Is the soil durable? As nearly
inexhaustible as any known soil. The
Maricopa 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-
tion? 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.