The St. Johns herald., 1897-03-20
Wonderful Arizona.

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 Daily Bee, is we'll worth reading, and
 it's circulation will undoubtedly be pro- ductlye of great good:
 The ancient history of Arizona is no less in
 tereSting than is the modern The cliff houses
 of the Rio de Chelly and the canyons of the Col
 orado still present their problems to ant.uuari-
 ans, some of whom believe the early Arizonans : 10 have been of the Pueblo stock, while others l trace them to the Aztecs. There are fortresses ! ana cliff dwellings mines and terraces, great 1 systems ofcanals, which unquestonably belong | 70 the partly civilized people who dwet ill Ari- | zona six or eight centuries ago. Historians say
 that 5OO ,OOo people then occupied the Salt River valley alone. Late in the sixteenth, century Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries did great work in this heather land and founded many towns. but the civilization that arose in their
 train vanished before the foIays of the Apache
 warriors. In 1S47, General s. W. Kearney marched his command through the Gila valley
 and first brought this country to the notice of
 Americans The territory was not set apart from New Mexico until 1863 Between 1884 and 1876 the Indians massacred more than 900 whites in Arizona but soon'af CT the era of savagery and isolation came to an end In 1Ss2-3 the Apaches again took the warpath, but General Crook held them in check. Another foray occurred in 1SS5-6, when Geronimo killed fifty persons before General Miles could capture the red warriors in the mountains of Sonora, yet even in 1891 6 number of Arizonans were killed by the Indi- ans. Since the removal of many of the hostile Apaches and the incoming of the railroads, Ari- zona has grown rapidly. The area of Arizonais 1ls, 600 square miles The agriculture of Arizona depends upon artificial irrigation, by whose sid crops of wheat and alfalfa are raised, as well as fruits and vegetables of almost every variety Modern irrigation began in Arizona in 1S67, with the construction of the Salt River Valley canal There were then no railroads within a thousand miles of Arizona. Other great canals have been constructed, and in 1889 the four principal ca als were consolidated, thus constituting the most complete system of irrigation in the United states Within ten years upwards of $4 4OOO OOO has been expended in irrigation canals in Ar,. zona The area that can be irrigat ted by the water in sight can not be less than 25O 900 acres The Salt River valley presents one of the most favorable areas in the United States for the pro- auction of semi-tropical fruits, such as oranges lemons, grapes, hgs apricots, etc. There sr5 thousands or acres of growing crops that rival Tn luxuriance those found in the famed valley of the Nile. Nearly everything in the way of grams, vegetables and fruits grown in the tenn l perate and semi-tropical zones flourish Wheat ana barley grow with wonderful rapidity. Ma | ny varieties a-e produced the year round All 1 kinds of berries flourish. Apricot trees bear from thirty to three hundred pounds each The almond crop is large and profitable Maricopa county, 1t is estimated contains about 900 acres of arabic land The heavier soil of the lower lying land has been deemed especially suited to the growth of cereals, while that contiguous to the foothills is preferred for both citrous and deciduous fruits. The annual yield of wheat and barley is large.
 The grain yield averages l3,O00 pounds of wheat and 5000 pounds of barley to the acre The total shipment of fruits aggregates about s.OOo,OOO pounds annually. Of other products than fruits the exports consist Of 100 carloads of wool, thIrty carloads of honey, upwards of 900 carloads of alfalfa hay, and thirty carloads of alfalfa seed The territory has 1,OOO, 900 head of cattle.
 The mineral resources of Arizona are enor- nous, and her leading industries are in mining and smelling, crushing and milling the ores. The modern output of the mines ofthe territory has passed $S0, 900, 900 and their product in the days of Spanish control was very great. The
  The silver veins of Tombstone are large and easily worked, and have produced $4 ,OOO,OOO 0 year The copper deposits at Clifton are among the richest in the world. Pine Canyon is the center of group Of rich mines, some of the ore of which assays s104 to the ton. The vast size and extent or the htti leads made this district one of the most remarkable ever discovered In no other mining camp has such great q :an- ti;y of pay ore been exposed by mere prospect and assessmentwerk. Some of the ore is very high grade. The average will run above forty dollars to the ton. The placer mining around Prescott has reached enormous proportions Various estimates of the value of the product of the placers of Yavapai since the discovery Of Weaver and Rich Hill fix the amount at over s2 900. The placer yield of the vicinity of of Prescott is computed at s199OO0 annually, if not more. The Congress mine, in which ore is in sight which will take ten years to mine, pro- 1uces from $50, 900 to $65, 900 month. From the Jersey Lily mine ore running as high as s1, COo per ton and never less than $200, has been pro- 1uced. The Little Jessie mine has produced lp to date, nearly half a million dollars These mines are within fifty miles of Prescott The most remarkable geological formation in the world is that constituting the Arizona onyx near fEescOlL Dc ncdIC COIOTluRS dnu OdAulHSS, TIT ermingling into the most fanciful markings md figures, make the stone one of remarkable beauty, The quantity is inexhaustible. The Vanderbilt group of onyx mines comprises 24O lcres The greater part of the onyx on these ,laims is of beautiful white color banded with seams ot amber brown and old gold. There is exquisite green onyx in all shades and colOrs )n sycamore creek Autograph stone quarries
 A-s-z arger than those of Pennsylvania, and it's pine orests greater than those of Michigan. The population of Arizona in 1890 was 9,620. The population in 1896 is 7zOOO. There are ], ,S2O school children. The railroad mileage Is 1857. There are 1855 postofices. The annual ] amount to s, ,OOo, 900.
 MormOnism Exp0unded.