Arizona republican., 1899-01-01
SOUTH SIDE.

While Phoenix may be proud of it's progress and its prospect of enlarge ment and of securing city water and sewerage on a more extensive scale, the south side is net envious. Tempe is by no means sleeping, and Mesa is doing something else besides sleeping Flee tric lights make the night brilliant in Mesa. Five brick stores have jus been finished, and the brick is being burned for four more. Brick is being burned for a new creamery and store, which will be built this winter. At the close of the school year the present school building will be enlarged tCl an eight room structure. The magnificent coun- try that surrounds Mesa finds a new settler in it every now and than, and if the lack of water prevents the ranchers from spreading over more land, they are mere thoroughly developing what they already possess. Tempe will have electric lights. before January expires. It has not city water, but the franchise has been granted to secure it.
 There is no large hotel, as there is in Mesa but the near future will in all probability see a fine one going up. Five new houses and stores have just been finished, and extensive repairs and additions have been made to four eth CTS. Two residences and one three story business block are in course of construction, and several residences and two brick churches are in sight for building before spring Here and there throughout the country a new house or barn is going up or building improve ments are being made by the prosper ous ranchers. The south side never had more prosperous outlook.
 The propeller pump, now in opera tion on the Dorman ranch, six miles southeast of Mesa, is being watched with a great deal of interest. MT. Dor man and MT. Russell, who came here from California to set the pump, think that it will prove a success in every way The two questions in doubt are whether or not water in sufficient quantities can be had, and whether or | not, sufficient water being found, it can be raised tlo the surface cheaply enough to be practical. Expert opinion is that the water supply on the desert, from 75 to 200 feet below the surface, can be had in practically unlimited quantity, and that two wells could ba operated cn every section. Great interest centres in this pump. because it will in all prob ability demonstrate the practicabllity of pumping water for irrigation on an extensive scale. The best of wood can be had TOT S3 per cCrd at the DOt Hidh ranch, as it is much nearer the supply The well is but 75 feet deep. The pro pslIer pump is as good a water-raislng device as any in existence, and conse- uuently, if this effort fails, it will more than likely cause experimenters to look elsewhere for developing water for irri- gation purposes. If it succeeds, the water question will begin to look easy
 L. D. Crook this year demonstrated what Mesa land will produce. He sOwed an acre and a, quarter to wheat for chicken feed. When the grain was ripe it looked so fine he concluded to har- vest it. The Mesa mill gave him thousand pounds of the best flour for the crop Mir. Crok then planted the piece to white Dent corn. The corn has been gathered for some weeks, and yesterday MT Crook brought few ears into town. The ears are net extremely large, but the kernels are One-half an inch square, and plump. Three head of hogs that were fattened on the corn crop dressed over 200 pounds. During roasting-ear time the family ravished the corn for table use, and still there Is corn left The object of MT. Crooks visit to town yesterday was to place