The Arizona sentinel., 1895-05-04

dOie JO sour, UT OH exposure IO the ar, dIVSr one year old, to become turbid and change color in the bottle or glass.
 We can safely say that the soil of Yuma County nowhere be surpassed containing as it does all the essential elements of richness and fertility. FRUIT CULTURE.
 Fruit production throughout Arizona is sub
 Ject of great interest at present, and will no doubt, be the principal industry in Yuma County. The remarkable results that have sprung from very superficial and imperfect culture has de- monstrated that the soil and climate of Yuma County are peculiarly adapted for this branch of agricultural enterprise. The development of these resources is of the utmost importance and is at tracting careful attention. Experiments have been made, with care, and facts in regard to the culture 1 of different kinds of fruits have been collected which cannot fail to convince even tbe most skept- ical, of the wonderful superiority of Yuma County over Southern California in fruit growing, and which must lead to a large and varied production, of the most remunerative character.
 The Commissioner of Immigration in his report, published in 1888, writes follows of the rich valleys of the Gila, Colorado and Salt rivers.
 ''The soil of these valleys is among the richest on tine continent. It is formed of the detritus which the streams for ages have brought down from their mountain homes in their journey to the sea By constant overiows and change Of channel, the deposit of this rich vegetable matter has form cd soil of extreme fertility, Near the streams it is dark aluvial mold, well adapted to small grains and grasses Farther back there is rich sandy loam, mellow and porous, and especially favorable for fruit culture. It has been already demonstrated that the productive capacity of these valleys is not surpassed by lands of equal in any part of the United States So rapid and prolific is the growth of the fruits cereals and vegetables that the labor of the cultivator is reduced to the minimum. In nearly all of them two crops year can be growth, and vegetation is one month ahead of California. The farmers plants a cottonwood sapling before his door, and within the year he has a shade tree twenty-five feet high! Alfalfa be cut six times during the season. and it is an actual fact the grape-cuttings have produced within egh teen months! What State or Territory can make such a showing? The climate, it must be remem- bered, is nearly perpetual summer. Snow never falls in these southern valleys The farmer begins to plant in November, and by the middle of May his harvest is ready. Roses in bloom, fruit trees are blossoming, and the grain fields sea of green, when the fields of the Eastern farmers are covered with snow and ice.
 Every variety of grains, grasses, fruits and vege tables grown in the temperate and semi-tropic zones can be produced in the valleys of Arizona. Wheat, corn barley, oats and all the small grains give yield of from twenty-five to fifty bushels to the acre. Alfalfa, clover, timothy, Bermuda and all the cultivated grasses grow luxurianty the former giving from eight to ten tens to the acre each year, Every variety of vegetable raised in the United States can be grown in Arizona, and nowhere are they found of better quality.
 Besides the products mentioned, these semi tropical valleys produce cotton, sugar-cane, to- bacco, hemp and rice. With the exception of the sugar cane, but little attention paid the culti vatOn of other staples but it has been demonstrat ed that the soil and climate specially adapted to their successful growth. Cotton-growing is no experiment in Arizona, for it is on record that when the Europeans first penetrated this region, they found the Pima Indians wearing fabrics made of cotton grown in the Gila valley.
 But it is their adaptabillty for fruit culture that to these valley lands a dense popua- tion and aprosperous future. Almost every var iety known be raised in their fruitful soils. The apple, pear plum peach, apricot, quince and nee tarine, are of delicious flavor, and give gen yield. The grape of all varieties is at home Tn these sunny vales. No place in the grape-grow ing belt of the Pacific Coast can show 50 prolific yield. Tine quality is a1I that could be desired; and the wine, although it's m3nufacture is yet ex- perimental, is of fine flavor, delicious bouquet, and unsurpassed by any native product as table beverage. Experiments with tho raisin grape have shown that this climate and soil possess | every advantage for tho production and curing of this staple article of commerce
 Besides the fruits already mentioned, the or ange, lemon, lime, olive, fig, pomegranate, and others of the citrus family, be grown success fully in the valleys of Southern Arizona. Orange | trees are in bearing in the Salt River valley and at Yuma; while the bananas is also being cuI- tivated at the latter place. The Arizona orange in quality and flavor will compare favoraby with the best California
 "In the valleys of tbe Colorado, the Salt and the GiIa Iivers there is for thousands. It is not too much to say that nowhere within the limits of this broad Union be found more desirable region for the making of home. No laborious clearing of the land is required; it lies almost ready for the blow Trees and shrubbery have so | rapid a growth that within eighteen months the | immigrant can surround his abode with attractions whch would require years to mature in less favored climates Fruits ripeu and are ready for market l Q full month brfora the California product The | bright sunshine makes life luxury, and the pure, dry atmosphere bring. health 10 all who inhaie it. For the establishment or colonies, such as we have presents unrivalcd opportunities Thousands of