Arizona republican., 1893-03-28

Highest temperature. ...... .ll5.5
 Lowest temperature. .... 22.5
 Average annual temperature. 722
 8. How does the heat affect one? A temperature of 90 degrees in the east ern states is far more prostrating and dangerous than the highest tempera- ture experienced in the Salt River val ley.
 g. What is the cause of the differ eDee? The absence of humidity in the atmosphere.
 10. What is the average rain fall? Six and thirty-seveh one-hundredth inches, confined principally to the win ter months.
 II. Does it rain continually during the wlnterP Only A day or two at a time, with intervals of weeks of cloud less weather.
 12. Are the storms violent? Thun- der and lightning are very rare. Cy- clones and wind-storms are unknown.
 Is. Are earthquakes ever experi- enced? Slight shocks have been known, but not as frequently as in the Missis- sippi valley.
 IA. How are lung and throat diseases affected by the climate? Most favor : bDls NhllcN lb ldluTdi The worst cases, both from the east and west, come here with the most beneficial results, many of them being permaD- ently cured. The climatic desideratum in pulmonary diseases is a mild and dry climate. Southern California has a mild climate, but it is not dry. Colo rado has dry climate, but it 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.
 l5. Do malarial or epidemic diseases prevailY Less than in any other part of the United States. The dryness of the atmosphere is unfavorable to the trans mission of disease germs.
 16. Are there any poisonous reptiles? Yes. in the adjacent mountains, but ir- rigaiion drives them away from tte cultivated lands.
 IT. 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- eumnlated wasbings from the surround ing hills, made up of the fine particles that have been, during countless cen luries, disintegrated by frost, or the chemical action of the atmosphere. The water he (the farmer) uses is also charged with new fertility, thus pro- dueed annually and gathered from the sides of the mountains scores and hun dreds of miles away, SO 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 it's vivifying liquid, bearing iertiizing clements, from the far off lands in upper Egy pt and beyond. This valley of the Salt derives it's luxuriousness frora the mountain regions of interior arid Arizona"
 The special committee of the United States senate, report OPS, part l, May A, 1890, page 50, says: "Within our border there cannot be found a soil 90 uniformly fertile and so capable of varied produotion, under irrigation, as ihst of the Gila, Salt and Santa Cruz fveYs, in southern and central Arizona. thoiEslS Oi tnls eOll snoWS us fertile ua,ties to be superior to that of the Nile earth"
 IS Is the coil durable2 As nearly neshaustible as any known soil. The darieopa Indians, remnant of semi ivilized tribe, have raised wheat upon ome of these lands continually since he advent of the early mission in the sventeenth century.
 10. Do all soils require irrigation |? es; the rain fall being insufficient to rodace any crop without irrigation.
 %. How is water applied for irriga- osf For srain and alfalfa, water is 9plied by aooding the entrire surface of e land between borders, usually 50 et apart. For fruit, it is run in fur
 ss near the trees or vines.