The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-01

the extent claimed by Republican cal
amity howlers. Arizona, financially the
best fixed of any of the above states,
| has been rather benefited than other
wise by the change of the last twenty
months It has. of course, felt the
effects of the collapse of Republican in
fla ton and boom methods. but seems to
have recovered very quickly and is now
taking on a steady, wealthy er~vth.
The necessaries of life are cheap down
there and if it were not for the ex-
tremely hot weather in summer it
would be an ideal place for the laboring
men to live. AS it is, their future pros
poets are very bright. The soil is fer
tile and almost anything from garden
truck to almonds and oranges can be
grown there with slight cultivation
compared with that required further
north. The greatest difficulty lies in
the scarcity of water during the sum-
mer when it is most needed and the
big floods which devastate things in the
winter. This is now being overcome to
a large extent by the building of stor-
age reservoirs. Snowflake and Taylor
may be mentioned as illustrations of
this. During the past summer. while
burnt up by the Scorchjng sun, they
had an abundant supply of storage
water TO use upon the farms when most
needed. Dry farms are also being taken
up and converted into splendid proper
ties by means of rain reservoirs.
There is some talk in that country
of opening up communication between
the north and south by means of about
$50 miles of railway between Flagstaff
Ariz., and Salina, Utah. The scheme
would seem feasible enough and would
no doubt be of great benefit to the
whole intermountain region; the trop-
zeal fruits Of the Salt river valley
could then be shipped in here at least
two weeks earlier than from Califor-
mia, and this is only one of the many
advantages which such q line would
have. While on this subject, it might
be we'll to mention the fact that the
Atlantic & Pacific railway has been
very courteous in it's recognition of
The Herald The petrified forests near
Holbrook, the Grand Canyon Of the
Colorado, the Canyon Diablo, the ma
tural bridges near Tonic Basin, and
many other places of unusual interest
can be visited on their line.
Arizona has for many years been
noted as the home of "the tough man."
but this scourge is being overcome.
The Indian is being civilized and
taught to farm and work. Schools are
being built for their benefit and their
little ones are learning the ways of
civilization. The Apaches are being
conquered, and but few of them follow
the Apache Kid on the war path. I
cannot speak we'll of the Kid or his
followers, as my uncle was one of his
victims, being shot in the back five
times.
The southwestern portion of the
territory contains very rich
mineral belt, which has a grand
future before it. SiXty-five miles
southwest of Prescott is the
Congress mine, which was sold
a short time ago for s., 800, 600. A force
of $50 men is being worked on the prop
erty, and the ore is shipped by team.
The Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix
railway is now extending its line from
Prescott to Phoenix. Gold is the prin-
cipal mineral mined in that section. At
Wickenbury station l saw Mexican
buy his supplies with gold dust He in
formed me that he obtained from Sc to
SO per day working at placer mining
dry panning" the dust
The Gold Hill mining vicinity was
having quite boom, which made times
lively at Mesa Mr.. Hanks, of that
place sold one mine at Gold Hill for
$4,000 and has two others bonded for
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively.
The ella mining country is prosper
ing and the farming class is doing es-
pecially well. The soil will produce
abundantly in one year if properly Gull
tivated. A crop of wheat or of corn
can be raised from the same land one
year. The great difficulty with farming
here is that the agriculturalists neglect
their farms
A railroad is now being built from
Boare to Globe which will pass through
the main towns and villages on the |
ella and haul the immense amount of
copper taken from the mines at Globe. !
Mr.. c. c. Bean, ex-delegate to Con-
gress, told me that in the next election
Arizona would undoubtedly go Demo- |
cratic. and this is the opinion of the
best posted men,
The climate at Mesa is good. The
elevation is about 1900 feet, while that
of Snowflake is over 5000 The people
as rule are enjoying good health and
are prosperous. E, M. WEST