The Arizona sentinel., 1899-04-15
ARIZONA.

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 ARIZONA.
 Arizona stands at the threshold Of al era of wonderful social and industrial de velopment There can't be doubt abou the fact. The dawn for which she ha waited so long is breaking at last. Ther' is every promise of a day of great pros perity and permanent upbuilding just be fore her. The impulse of a new and ener giling hope is visible everywhere among her people. while the. cumulative effect 0 many things, which made but small i'm pression as they transpired singly, is now commanding for her a full share of atten ti0n 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 mort surely indicates a great industrial awaken ing than this. The rates of interest ar, falling to moderate figures. Nothing nor surely indicates confidence and competition among the money lend IS than this.
 Arizona has reached that climactice period which every western state has ex perienced sometime in it's history when after long and weary struggle and doubt with each side of the balance first up anC then down, the clouds of despondency have suddenly rolled away, and sunhurs of energiziug hope has thrilled the droop ing spirits of the people to greater a,lc braver endeavor than before.
 For the last twelve years the subsistence of the great Tombstone boom and the com pletiOn of two transcontinental lines 0 railroad across her territory ha rather dropped out of public attention but in that time she has been quietly ac cumulating a fund uf substantial wealtl and a force of moral character whicl qualify her now to rise up and take he1 destiny in her own hands.
 The population of Arizona is Mexican This is a mistake of great importance frol. the moral point of view There is but ont considerable center of Mexican population in the territory. the city of Tucson, ana even there it is not by any means at pres ent the predominating element. It thin% 1t Is certain that arizona has not to-day nearly 90 large Mexican population al Colorado and not above Oue-tenth as nucf as New Mexico. >"Fitz. Mac" in Denver News.
 FRUIT CULTURE.
 Fruit production throughout Arizona is a sub- iect great interest at present, and will nt doubt, be the principal industry in Yuma County The remarkable results that have sprung iron very superficial and imperfect culture has de monstrated thai the soil and climate of Yum; County peculiarly adapted for this branch O agricultural enterprise. The development of these resources is of the utmost importance and is at tracing carcfrl attention. Experiments have beer made, with care and facts in regard the cultur, of different kinds of fruits have been collected which cannot fail to convince, tbe most skept ical, oft,, underful superiority of Yuma County over Southern California in fruit growing, anC which must lead to Q large and varied production of the most remunerative character.
 The Cor missioner of Immigration in his report published in SSS, writes as follows of the ricl valleN of the Gia. Colorado and Salt rivers
 The soil of these valleys is among the richest on the continent. It is formed of the detritus from their mountain homes in their journeg to the sea- By constai overfows and change of channel the deposit of this rich vegetable matter has form ed Q soil of ,xtreme fertility, Near ths streams il is a dark alluvial mold well adapted to small grains and grasses. Farther back tnere is a rich sandy loam, mellow and porous, and especially favorable for fruit culture. It has been already demonstrated that the productive apaeity of these valleys is not surpassed by lands of equal area in any part of the United States. So rapid and prolific is the growth of the fruits cereals and vegets bles that the labor of the cutivator is reduced to the minimum. In nearly all of them two crops year can be growth, and vegetation is month ahead Of California. The farmers plants Q cottonwood sapling before his door, and within the he has a shade tree twenty-five feet high! Alfalfa can be six times during the season. and it is an actual fact the grapecuttings have produced within eigh- teen months, What State or Territory can make such showing? The climate, it must be remem- berod is nearly perpetual summer. Snow never falls in these southern valleys. The farmer begins to plant in November, and by the middle Of Nay lis harvest is ready. Roses 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 vege- tables grown in the temperate and semitropic ha in +l.a xaIla of A,i1 Wheat, corn barley, oats ard all the smaii grains give yield of from twenty-five to fifty bushels to the acre. Alfalfa clover, timothy, Bermuda and all the cultivated grasses grow luxuriantIy, the former giving from eight to ton tons to the acre each year, Every variety of vegetable raised in the United States can be grown iD Arizona, and nowhere they found of better quality.
 'Besides the products mentioned, these semi tropical valleys produce cotton, sugar-cane, to- bacco, hemp and rice. With the exception of the sugarcane but little attention is paid to the cuIt yatop of other staples but it has been demonstrat ed that the soil and climate are specially adapted to their successful growth. on-growing is no in Arizona, for it is on record that when the Europeans first penetrated this region, they feund the Pima Eudisns wearing fabrics made Of C. ton grown in the Gila valley.
 "BGt it is their adaptability for fruit culture 5ha6 assures tS taesc valley lands dense popula- ton and aprosperous future. Almost every ety known be raised in their fruitful sells. The apple, pear, plum, peach, apricot, quince and nee -arine, are of delicious flavor, and give gen erous yield The grape of all varieties isa home h these sunny valos. No place in the grape grow ing belt of the Pacific Coast can show so prolific yieid. The quality is all that could be desired; and the wine, although it's manufacture is yet ex- perimcntal, is of fine flavor, delicious bouquet, 2r1 'Hs 'rla.e-t' hr any ua''v~ plpduG+ stshiH