Arizona republican., 1898-11-30

is ready to be hauled to the city and
 ent to the market.
 The orange product of the valley this ear is about twenty cars. accoI ding to
 he estimates of the owners cf groves. Atr Ward will have nearly four ears, ,eavy increase over last years produc- lion, notwi thstanGing the loss of hls
 smOn and grape frUi. yield this year. Fhe Engelside company will have bout the same amount of n&veis-- Wards varieties being jGfas, bio51s md tangerincs, which bear more heaT- fly than the naVels and are said to be
 lore profitable to growers. ". J Mur- ehy's grove of thirty acres beclmo grdGucer this year, yielding something yer 200 boxes Of naEels G. II. Clay
 CT, tha rurseryman, has small Gr0Ee which has yielded well and Ee will
 ereaster become a shipper Of iTpor- ance. Dr. Gillispie, an eas&erner, who
 ecently purchased the Kemp grove Gf
 Eenty acres which a1j0ins Ward $, has cr0D Of 5U0 boxes which is yet cn the reCs iii8 fruit is composed ot JaTta5 nd bIGCds Dr Hardy of this city iS he pcssesaor Of ten acres in bearing nd. ten acres of trees set GIL last .3r!re. The ten acres bearing will .leid d carload this year. Picking has .ireadv begun 9, his grove. The de iciOu5 iaha is the product and the reas are loaded down with the weight # the oranges. B. c. Cock who came -erc from Washington. D: C., lao ing. purchased the Levin ten acres, md bough forty acres across the road, Menty of which he set out, and tna re Hainder has been leveled to receive tho srces the coming spring. The Levin 1n acres produced 15G boxes this year The groves mentioned are located n the foothills near the Camel BacK.
 In the western portion o+ the or@2Gc belt Colonel Cotton has 2 handEor1e grove of twenty acres, which, from point ot beauty, is one of the hest in .hn valley The trees are all Of the navel variety, and only q portion q them are in bearing. He will pick near v 500 h0xes O fruit. The ,an-aal e grove owned by W A Wilson, the well known traveIing man who makes this city his home, came out this year with 2 handsoTe yield which will require . car to take the fruit to the eas~eTn markets The prOduc, of the Wilson grove is nayels and ruby bloods. Wa1ef Eennett's ten-acre grove produced car of fruit this year also, ard the or ahges were being packed by Mr. Ward sesterdav. He has but one variety, the navel. Adjoining the Bennett grove ehe MaricCpa Loan and Trust company owns ten acres the yield from Wnich vas one car. Colonel William Chris tvs ten-acIe grove produced ns&fIy . car of naveIs and jaffas. Further On west at Glendale and Peoria there are 2 number of young groves which will come into bearing soon, and the gap between tho eastern and western DOT tions Of the orange belt is filled with young groves. Altogether there are 4GO acres Of vigorous young trees which will add their fruit to the oTan95 pre- GuctiCn Cf the belt next year and the year following.
 A great deal of success has been ne with at Mesa and Tempe ill raising or anees, and that portion cf the valley contains many favcrabl l1c4lions. Afs- Pritchard has a good crop this year, and the ether groves thero are owned by George Scho1 nick and 5. MCos. There $ q producing grove at Tempe, owned by Rev KIoss, the product o2 which is 200 boxes this year.
 Although yet in its infancy tde is Of Importance in a much G7at- CT sense than the value of is pro duct this year. for it is now demon strated beyond all question th2J or anges can be raised here with safe-y and profit The quality of the frlii5 i5 better than that Of any Of the old or 2nga producing sections of tke coun- ny. and the fruit rlpens here and :a ready for shipment a month before -he California oranges. It is free from scales, and is favored by more whole some conditions than the fruit of Flor ida and California. The orange pro- daction of the Iexr few years will place the industry next to alfalfa in impor- tnrce