The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
ARIZONA.

 Halfa, but somewhat cooler.
 ARIZONA.
 Arizona stands at the threshold of an era of wonderful social and industrial de- velopment. There can't be a doubt about the fact. The dawn for which she has 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 of many things, which made but small i'm pression as they transpired singly, is now commanding for her full share Of atten- ton and interest abroad among home seekers and capitalists.
 4 lively competition has sprung up for the possession of things which have hereto fore gone a-bogging for ownership. There is scramble for franchises. Nothing more surely indicates great industrial awaken ing than this. The rates of interest are falling to moderate figures. Nothing more surely indicates confidence and competition among the money lend. rs than this.
 Arizona has reached that climacticer period which every western state has ex' perienced sometime in it's history when, after long aud weary struggle and doubt, with each side of the balance first mp and then down, the clouds of despondency have suddenly rolled away, and a sunhurst of energiziug hope has thrilled the droop' ing spirits of the people to greater aud braver endeavor than before.
 For the last twelve years the subsidenct of the great Tombstone boom and the com pletion of two transcontinental lines o railroad across her territory-Arizona hat rather dropped out of public attention but in that time she has been quietly ac cumulating fund of substantial wealtf l and a force of moral character whicf qualify her now to rise up and take he destiny in her own hands.
 The population of Arizona is Mexican This is a mistake of great importance fro,l the moral point of view. There is but on' considerable center of Mexican population in the territory, the city of Tucson, anC even there it is not by any means at pres ent the predominating element. It thinl it is certain that Arizona has not to-da, nearly so large Mexican population a Colorado and not above one-tenth as mucl as New Mexico >"Fitz. Mac," in Denve 1 News.
 FRUIT CULTURE.
 Fruit production throughout Arizona is Q sub icct O great interest at present, and will n doubt, be the principal industry in Yuma County The remarkable results that have sprung fror very superficial and imperfect culture has de monStrated that the soil and climate of Yum County are peculiarly adapted for this branch ( agricultural enterprise. The development of thes resources is of the utmost importance and is a tracing carefnl attention. Experiments have bee made, with care, and facts in regard to the cutur of different kinds of fruits have been collecte which cannot fail to convince, even tbe most skep ical, oftay Onderful superiority of Yuma Count over Southern California in fruit growing, an which must lead to large and varied production of the most rsmunerative character.
 The Con missioner of Immigration in his repor published in SS6, writes as follows of the rie valle, of the Gila Colorado and Salt rivers
 "The soil of these valleys is among the riches on the continent. It is formed of the detritu which the streams for ages have brought dow from their mountain homes in their journeG to u sea. By constant overfovs and change of channe the deposit of this rich vegetable matter has forn ed 6 soil of extreme fertility, Near ths streams is dark alluvial mold, well adapted to smn grains and grasses. Farther back there is a ric sandy loam, mellow and porous, and especial favorable for fruit culture. It has been alread demonstrated that the productive apacity of the: valleys is not surpassed by lands of equal area any part of the United States So rapid and prolif is tho growth of the fruits, cereals and vegetable that the labor of the cultivator is reduced to tl minimum. In nearly all of them two crops ye: can be growth, and vegetation is one month ahea of California. The farmers plants cottonwoo sapling before his door, and within the year he hi a shade tree twenty-five feet high Alfalfa can cut six times during the season, and it is an actu fact the grape-cuttings have produced within eigl teen months! What State or Territory can mah such a showing? The climate, it must be remen ] tNSN'~A falls in these southern valleys. The farmer begin to plant in November, and by the middle of Ma lis harvest is ready Roses are in bloom, fru trees are blossoming, and the grain fields are SC of green, when the fields of the Eastern farme are covered with snow and ice.
 Every variety grains grasses, fruits and veg tables grown in the temperate and semi-trop zones can be produced in the valleys of AIizon Wheat, corn barley, oats and all the small grail give yield of from twenty-five to fifty bushels the acre. Alfalfa, clover, timothy, Bermuda all all the cultivated grasses grow luxuriantly, u former giving from eight to tan tons to the ac each year, Every variety of vegetable raised the United States can be grown iD Arizona, all nowhere are they found of better quality. "Besides the products mentioned, these sem tropical valleys produce cotton, sugar-cane, t' bacco. hcr,p and rice With the exception of u sugarcane but little attention is paid to the cult vaton of other staples but it has been demonstra ed that the soil and climate are specially adapt' to their successful growth Cotton-growing is experiment in Arizona, for 1t IS on record tn when the Europeans first penetrated this regio they found the Pima Indians wearing fabri made of cotton grown in the Gila valley.
 , ssDrt it is their adaptabihty for fruit cultu that assures to these valley lands deDse popul tion and aprosperous future Almost every va iety known can be rascd in their fruitful soils IT apple, pear, plum, peach, apricot, quince and ne tsrne, are of delicious flavor, and give ge erous yield. The grape of all varieties isa hon in these sunny wales. No place in the grape-gr ing belt of tho Pacific Coast can show so prolific yield, The quality is all that could be desire and the wine, although it's manufacture is yet c perimental, is of fine flavor, delicious bouque and ur, ,rr- -sef br au" roii iva pro(Nct as tab