The Florence tribune., 1895-06-15

- selves what the land will produce. Take alfalfa as an example. There are several hundred acres about Arizola and Casa Grande. While much of it Is grazed there are many fields cut for hay. Those who have small fields and can cut them as soon as the grass is matured, get six or seven cuttings q year, a total of from nine to twelve tons of cured hay per acre. Surely this is good enough for those who choose alfalfa raising as their Grapes will doqbtless prove one of the
 MOST PROFITABLE CROPS
 in this locality. On the ranches of Dunn and Logan, Bogart, Reed, Thom- as and others, grapes ofdifferent varie- ties are growing to perfection. The varieties principally planted are the Muscat of Alexandria, Flaming ToEay, Seedless Sultana ana Thompson < Seedless. While all are regarded as profitable the Thompson's Seedless are now generally thought to be especially adapted to the soil and climate o1 Southern Arizona. They form larger and more compact punches than any of the other varieties named. So far none of the diseases that have created such havoc in vineyards in California and elsewhere have shown themselve. here. Fruit trees of all kinds grow well when properly planted and cared for, and varieties that have come int bearing produce most excellent fruit Up to the present time, however, littl, except apricots have come into bearing and of that fruit there are but fev trees
 OLD ENOUGH TO BEAR.
 Figs are setting well on the trees il Mir. Thomas large orchard this yea for the first time, and it is his expecta tion that he will have several thous and pounds either for shipment o packing. Mr. Thomas also expects | ship several ears of grapes, while Mr Reed and others will have consider able quantities for sale. This year fo the first time revenue will be derive from something else than alfalfa.
 Now, having considered the soil an what it will produce, let it not be for gotten that the one great attractio this part of the valley has for grea many of it's people is it's climate Those who pass through on the car and feel only the scorching rays of th midday sun will no doubt be slow t believe in the excellencies of this va ley climatically. It is hot here in sun mer, as it is in other parts of Souther Arizona. From the middle of May ur til the middle of September old Sol expected to be on duty about fourtee hours day on the average and seve days week.
 ] THUNDER SHOWERS
 are looked for occasionally in Jul and August, but as rule the sun is evidence from morning until nigh The remaining eight months of tn year are admittedly the pleasante, months to be found in any countr7 But it is the hot months of summe that are the most beneficial to those search Of health, and it is the hc months that are most appreciated The consumptive who goes to Souther California in 8 vain search for dr climate signs his own death warrar the moment he passes Deming on th l Southern Pacific or Barstow on th Santa Fe road. He chokes on the fog of those valleys and daily grows wors. wondering all the while why that el ceedingly dry climate is so distressirl to his breathing machinery. It soml times happens that an invalid of tn class takes it into his head to mal just one more change, feeling in h mind that he would as soon roast f death on the arid plains of Souther Ariz 1na as to choke to death on th fog-laden breezes from the balrny P; cific. And it is surely after he has
 SPENT SUMMER
 in the sunshine here and has becom as brown as Papago and as hungr as a coyote that he realizes what dis bolical idiot he has been for man years. If people would only believ the truth about this country ther would be million new settlers i Southern Arizona within the next thil 1 ty days, for the hot months of sufnme is the health-giying season to thos whose respiratory organs are out ( tune.
 Let 1t be said to all, come and b one of us. This valley lies at an elevs tion of about fourteen hundred fee and stretches many miles in every d rection, with mountains both grea and small here and there, thus offel ing variety to the scene. Drinl1in water is found at depth of about fiji ty feet. With the purest of wate beneath the surface, everything unde the sun growing on the surface, an