Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-11-11
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UN-IRKIGATED FARMING.

Tbs Governments estimates th amount of vacant land in Arizona to b U sbout 57 400. .211 acres. Ot that amour '" it is safe to say that not much over one
 fourth of that amount is or ever will b. a svsilsble for agricultural pu. poees m l. less there should bs radical cIimgti s changes. Ol course large smount O \ the available agricultural land of the
 Territory IS now ooouiped and the prob
 able one-fourth of the remaining lands
 would add about 100000 acres more
 bo bhs pressns occupied agricultural
 area The occupancy Of these addaion-
 acres however depends upon tae dev4l
 opmeus of our irrigation resc .rces os
 upon the introduction of s,etems of
 agriculture end kinds Of crops that yilI
 require little if any more moie uEe than
 the natural rainfall. There are now
 portious of the Territory oF Arizoas
 under cultivation and fine cro.s O cora
 and certain other cereals are raised by | rigatio1. Thers Is DO doubs vO OheteveE
 that ttie sort of cropping vii. rapidly
 increase in use. Corn, planted jrst st
 the right season, and with tl a proper | cultivation, should mature wi nout ir- rigstioG in any DOT tion of the erritory; the Pepago and the Navajo Indians have long been successful ,n th,s srsre ID of cultivation. Again there ei csftsin grains, Egyptien msizs for inst ac Ind certain forage plants that COZ to me tuFity with:our nstnIaI rainfsl. AQaiI i there Is nothIng more evident fo the ] careful fgrIcultuesl observer than taet l much more water is now used in the raising of crops by irrigation than neo- eessFy. There is nos the leaat doubt that in the esrly future double the present irrigated area will be worked by the water now used, aud just ss efficiently ss the present area is work ed.
 But the FgFeat improvement and sd- vance in orchsrdiug and agriculture will be in the way above indicated. i. g. the Introduction of fruits requiring little water ss the date and olive i4e 0P %1 l nothing of the development of the native cactus fruit that now houFishes n the Territory in wild condition, in great IpxuFisnce and quantity, but which is' practically useless for econo- nic purposes in Its pFesFn* condition. To will some day, however, xhen 1t has been carefully cultivated and developed [ 70 what it's present oordisicn indicates, | become en important horticultural | 1Foducb of Arizona. We mention this I imply as en indication of the t uture horticultural and agricultural T prospects of Arizona. That the Agri- u cultural department of our University f ,ss not been systematically at work g slong the lines indicated is true and an ,vidence oI the foct that at it's experi- mental stations it is new and to sn 'xsent not quits in touch with the work 2 he climate and country offer it for in- n it's future great aud i'm s ,ortsnt work will be in the dire oiion |. ndicated
 But the agricultural lands of Arizona II phich include everything not occupied |. y her great mountain area, will gradu- lily come into uss and her 9 .COO,OOO of r ., .cres of arsbIs land will. through the n of the use of the waters of V Ter streams and the adoption of fruits, q vegetables and graius for cultivation II uited to tbe couditiors that prevail in 6 rid regions, be occupied aud producing profitable crops even should present Iimatic conditiors continue.