Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-09
THE CAMPHORsl TIRED.

able for ornamental and useful purpose
 one of the meet besutiful and heslthfo y. of trees, VIZ: the osmphor tree.
 Ie The results of an investigation re '- ed in A bulIetin of the Department. I It says that for most of the secondary .- purposes the csmphoT tree may well oe
 cultivated wherever is can be made tc
 live. But for the dssiiletion of g osmphor gum and oil with 8 commercial y view and for the production of wood | for cabinet purposes 1t must be grown under the most favorable conditions
 Minimum winter temperature should not be below 20 degrees Fahrenheit. ] Soil should be sandy, we'll drained and
 irrigated unless there are abundant
 rains and plenty of food. rich in nj trogeu."
 To will be seen therefore that even for merchantile purposes this is 8 most
 favorable locality to grow this useful tree
 PHoENIX will be honoFed with a real
 Conservatory of Music. Thoroughly
 musical people have the matter in hand
 lectures on the different branches of
 musical competition will bs part of the
 work, sight reading will be an impor-
 tapt feature and altogether Phoenix
 now bids fair to become an important
 musical csnter. She already has
 some of the fnesb vocalists and
 inssrumsn talists in beg midst.
 THE Signal Service office located in
 in thie oity, in its report for August,
 eb hand this moroing. gives the
 average precipitation for August for sixteen years st 97 of en inch the | mean average temperature of August for thirteen years is given at 8S degrees. The highest point reached by the ther
 mometsr here this year in August YVES
 110 degrees or the 6sh of thst month.
 These are significant figures for this | season considering what we have often | seen the thermometer do here ia years 1 past, snd indicates sn average lower i temperature which is put et 80 degrees | for the month. However, the August | just passed had an unusual number of cloudy days which produced much sultry weather; weather which is much l fr.-fo ftf olt whsn the eky is clear Gnd ths thermo- meter ranging up about no to 115 de- shows deficiency of 36 of aD inch be- low the average. However, the paeci- pitation in tne mountains about the valley was probably in excess, hencs cloudy days and sultfy weather.
 THE time is about passed in AFizous when the storage of water on OFT more important streams can be accom- plished by incorporate capital or private money for the reason that the waters in these streams have been entirely appropriated she entire length oi the streams and the great area ot valuable lands lying , outside of present canals, though low $ down on those streams, Can scarcely olsim water that lands furtheF up thoee streams aKe already using and exhaust . ing completely es ordinary stages of : the water. Every day therefore, : oom plicstes matters more aud more for wstes storage and the litigation that must now slmoss Certainly follow at sempts st water storage by any single t 1istrict on these streams m use keep out : snd drive eff capital which rarely is willing to purchase 8 law suit, pecialIy : of the magnitude and intricacy of those q water suits. There appears lefs but P one recourse in this condition of sff airs, c md that is to induce the nations d gov to step ip, end proper sppro- 1ristions having first been made for She 9 purpose, oondemn and pay for the F 1eCeF5afy PiQESE+y E6tCtO III IH6 coD- truction of csnsls end resarvcire, snd he property thet must necessarily be .bgudoped to | 1rd water for storage h end the benefit of lands 10 e lown the stresm. This having been lone the Government should then enter 'l lpon the construction of the canals and :. itself, with all possible speed, e, nd require the lands benefited by u uch reservoirs and canals to main tain u hem 2 the proper condition for uee " ndef legal penalty Of loss of water to = = ny portion of land refusing to so con Q ribute, probably in the way of water axes; or possibly better yet make those or 'ater taxes lien upon tbe lsr ds using pi he water. Something Of this kind luss be done soon, either hy the state N T the nation and as things are now m spidiy shapenipg themselves ie wall be in scessary to 1T ake it national enter VI