The Arizona sentinel., 1899-05-06
ARIZONA.

ARIZONA.
 frizona stands at the threshold of sr era of wonderful social and industrial de velopment There can't be doubt abour the fact. The dawn for which she ha! waited so long is breaking at last. There is every promise of day of great pros perity and permanent upbuilding just be fore her. The impulse of a new and ener gizing hope is visible everywhere among her people while the cumulative effect o many things, which made but small i'm pression as they trunspired siugIy, is now commanding for her a full share of attcn ton and interest abroad among home seekers and capitalists.
 4 lively competition has sprung up fo, the possession of things which have hereto fore gone a-begging for ownership. Ther, is a scramble for franchises. Nothing more surely indicates great industrial awaken ing than this. The rates of interest ar' falling to moderate figures. Nothing more surely indicates confidence and competition among the money lend IFS than this.
 Arizona has reached that climactice period which every western state has ex perienced sometime i'll its history when after long and weary struggle and doubt with each side of the balance first up ant then down. the clouds of despondency have suddenly rolled away, and snnhurs of energiziug hope has thrilled the droop ing spirits of the people to greater alt braver endcavor than before.
 For the last twelve years the subsistence of the gl eat Tombstone boom and the com pletion of two transcontinental lines O. railroad across her territor; Arizona ha! rather dropped out of public attention but in that time she has been quietly ac cpmulatine a fund of substantial wcaltl and a force Of moral character whicl qualify her now to rise up and take hel destiny in her own hands.
 The population of Arizona is Mexican This is mistake of great importance froi. the moral point of view There is bat ont considerable center of Mexican population in tho territory, the city of Tucson, and even there it is not by any means at pres cnt the predoninating element. It think it Is eel tain that arlaona has not to-day nearly so large d Mexican population a: Colorado and not above Nne-tenth as mucl as New Mexico >"Fitz. Mac" ill Denver News.
 FRUIT CULTURE.
 Fruit production throughout Arizona is Q sub ject great interest at present. and Will nI doubt, be the principal industry in Yuma County The remarkable results that have sprsng iron very superficial and imperfect culture has de County arc peculiarly adapted for this branch O agricultural entcrp"iso. The development of these resources is of the utmost importance and is at tracting carefnl attention. Experiments have beeI made, with caro- and facts in regard to the cuItur, Of different kinds of fruits have been collected which cannot fail to convince, even tbe most slopt ical, off Vnderful superiority of Yuma County over Southern California in fruit growing, anC which must lead to q large and varied production of the most ramuncrative character.
 The co missioner of Immigration in his report published ii 8S8, writes as follows of the ricl valle, of the Gila. Colorado and Calt rivers
 The soil of these valleys is among the riches on the continent. It is formed of the detritus which the streams for ages have brought down from their mountain homes in their journey to tn, sea. By constant overhows and change Of channel the deposit of this rich vegetable matter has form ed soil of ,xtreme fertility, Near ths streams il i-.7--i aIie-I --4ri, ,.ll adapted to smal grains and grasses. Farther back there is ricl sandy loam, mellow and porous, and especially favorable for fruit culture. It has been already demonstrated that the productive apacity of these valleys is not surpassed by lands of equal area u any part of the Unitcd States So rapid and prolific is the growth of the fruits cereals and ve.etab that the labor Gf the cutivator is reduced to the Ir nearly all of them two crops 8 year can be growth, and vegetation is one month ahead of California. The farmers plants cottonwood sapling before his door, and within the year he has shade tree twenty-five feet hieh! Alfalfa can be cut six times during the season. and it is an actual fat the grapecuttings have produced within eieh- teen mouths! What State Territory can make
 
 bercd, is nearly perpetual summer. Snow never falls in these southern valleys. The farmer begins to plant in November, and by the middle of Gay lis harvest is ready. Roses are in bloom, fruit trees are blossoming, and the grair fields sea of green, when the fields of the Eastern farmers are covered with snow and ice.
 Every variety grains grasses, fruits and vcge- tables grown in the temperate and semi-tropic zones can be produced in the valleys of AI izona. Wheat, corn barley, oats ard all the small grains give yield of from twenty five to fifty bushels to he acre. Alfalfa, clover, timothy, Bermuda and all the cultivated grasses grow luxuriantly, the orIaer giving from eight to ten tons to the acre each year. Every variety of vegetable raised in the United States can be grown ip Arizona, and nowhere are they found of better quality
 "Besiies the products mentioned, these semi tropical valleys produce cotton, sugar cane, to- 1acco, hemp and rice. With the exception of the uGar cane, but little attention is paid to the cult ration of other staples but it has been demonstrat ;d that the soil and climate are specially adapted 0 their successful growth. Cotton growing is no experiment. in Arizona, for it is record that when the Europeans first penetrated this region, hey found the Pima In'iian5 wearing fabrics made of ( ttJn grown in tho Gila v2lIey.
 But it is their adaptabillty for fruit culture hat assures to these valley lands deuso popula- ion and aF:osperous future. Almost every var- oty known can be raised in their fruitful soils. The pple, pear, plum, peach, apricot, ounce ana nee arine, are af delicious flavor, anti give gen rous yield. Tie grape Ot all varieties i-s homo n those sunny riics No place in the graDe-orOvy- ng belt oi the PaciG. Coast can show So proiift a ield. The quality is ail that could bc desired; rd the wine, aitlovgiits manufacture is vet eX is ot . fine flavor. delicious houquet, I'd uns Irlde,ed by SnJ :.atye yIJdlVt aS a tatie