The Arizona sentinel., 1899-04-22
FRUIT CULTURE.

Fruit production throughout Arizona is a sub doubt, be the principal industry in Yuma County Inc remarkable results tLat have sprung from very superficial and imperfect culture has de monstrated that the soil and climate olYuas County are peculiarly adapted for this branch of agricultural enterprise. The developments of these resources Is of the utmost importance and is at tracting carefnl attention. Experiments have been
 made with care, and facts in regard to the culture Of different kinds os fruits have been collected which cannot fail to convince, tbe most skeps- ical, oftas Onderful superiority of Yuma County over Southern California in fruit growing, and which must lead to 2 large and varied production, of the most remuner&tive character.
 The Commissioner of Immigration in h.s report, published in 'S35, writes follows Of the yich valle, of the Qila. Colorado and Salt rivers
 "The soil of thesc vslleys is amorg She richest or the continent. Ii is formed of the detr:tus which Che streams for ages have brought down from their mountain homes in their jou:ner to the sea. By constant overfovs and change of channel, the deposit of this rich vegetable matter has form ed soil Of extreme fertility, Near ths streams it is dark slluvial mold, well adapted to small grains and grasses. Farther back tneTe is a rich sandy loara, mellow and porous, and especially farorabc for fruit culture. It has been already l. nonstrated that the productive apscity of these valleys is not surpassed by lands Of equal area in any part of the UniScd States. So rapid and prolific is the growth oi the fruits, cereals and vegetables that the labor of the cuSivaSor is reduced to the minimum. h nearly all of them two crops year can be growth, and vegetation is one month ahead of California. Ths farmers plants 8 cottonwood sapling before his door, and within tse year he has shade tree twenty-five feet hiEh! Alfalfa can be Cut six times during the season. and 1t is actual fact the grape-cutt;nga have produced within eigh teen moEths What State or Territory can make such showing? The climate, it Irust bc reInem bered, is nearly perpetual summer Snow mover ial, in these southern valleys. The farmer begins to plant iu November, and by the middle of Way lis harvest is ready Eoses are in bloom, frrl;1 trees are blossomng, and the grain fields aye Of green, when ths folds of the Eastern farmers are covered with snow and ice.
 Every vaIisty c grains grasses, fruits and vcge- tab.es grown in she temperate ani seroi-trop;c zaaes eau be produced ia th5 valleys ot AIizona. Wheat, corn barley. oa.s ard 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 luxurian:ly, the former giving from eight tA ten tens to the acre each year. Every variety Of vegetable raised in the United States can he grown iu Arizona, and nowhere they found or better quality.
 "Besijes the products mentioned. these semi tropical valleys produce cotton, sugar-csne, to- bacoo, hemp and rice With the exception of the auGarcane, but little attention is paid to the cult ration Of o5her staples; but it has been deonstrat ed that the soil and climate specially adapted to their successful, growth. Cotton-growing is no experiment in Arizona. for t is record that whcn the Europeans fret penetrated bis region, chey fcrnd the pima Indians ~earing fabrics made of .tton grovn n thc C;Ia valley.
 "Ba1 tt IS 5..e,r aiaptabl.ty TOT fruit culture ti4at assulos to these valley lands dense noruia- ton and prosperous iature Alrno5t every var oty known be raised their fruitful soils The arple. pear plum peach, apricot, qnince and nec- tarine, are el 6sliCioas flavor, and give gen. e-ous yield, The gvaps Of au varieties iea homo Tn these euuny raies. No piaco lu tho erape-groH
 ing heit ot the rGc.i. Coast sisoU so prolific yield. The quality ia Ell that eoaId bc Gcsircd; s.l3 the vine. sithoagtits rna:-tasto-e is yeJ ex reI'.nol,a', IS c: me ao,or. delicious bouqus' sad Ing " .e.sl b} 2ly es..- p,plYgt zs stahl"