The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-23
ARIZOyA'S AGRICULTURAL PRO.
 DUCTS.

land are under cultivation in Ari- zona, the agricultural development of the Territory has only begun. Hundreds of thousands of acrsaR he most fertile soil on the con. tInen', in land of perpetual sun. >hlne and in climate conducivs |" the growth of all the products of temperate and semi-,ropic aones. await only the life-giving touch of water to convert them from deser, tracts into luxurious gardens. Thi, year the hot sands defy the props- gatIon of vegetable life; next year 'hese same sands will feel the throb "f the irrigation ye,n, and vh.r. only the desert shrubs once yrsv there will spring up luxurixn. vine. yards. orchards heavy with dslici. ons fruits. beautiful gardens and broad fields of grain and Rrassss
 A prosperous population will Rnd homes in the valleys of Ari.ona's rivers. attracted no. only by the
 nxury of life in land of stsrns, sunshine. whero every breeze carries with 1t 8 message of health and vieor; where the scourgcs of otEer '"calities-blizzards, snow storms. floods and cyclones-are unknorn. but also by the fertile soil vho.s wonderful fecundity will snabls man to reap the fruits of his lsbors within an almost incredibly short space of time.
 The coil of the A.izoHa valley, is az inexhauetible as 1t is fertile. For ages the streams have carried down from the mountain districts the detrilus which forms this soil. Ere. quent inundations and shifting of channels have cau,ed the deposit of tho rich vegetable matters which have made the valleys of the Terri. tory, and especially those of the Salt. Gila and Colorado rivers, 50 wonderfully fertile. The soil ranges from black, alluvial mold near the water to rich. mellow, porous loam further back from the streams.
 The former is especially adapted to to the growth of grain and grasses, wbile the sandy loam fulills all the conditions for successful fruit cul- ture. The growth of all products fruits, cereals and vegetablss-is rapid and prolific. In many in. stances two crops are grown in . single year, while as many as SIX crops of alfalfa have been harvested within that period.
 There is scarcely locality on the gl he that can successfully grow IS great variety of grains, grasses. fruits and vegetables as Arizona. Wheat, oats, barley, corn and all the smaller cereals yleld enormous crops; every variety of vegetable known in the country is grown in Arizona, ard every variety reaches the acme of perfection. Alfalfa, clover, timothy, Kaffir corn, millet and all tCe grasses have luxurisnt growth; cotton, sugar.cans, sugar beets. hemp, rice and tobacco thrive m the soil. while there is scarcely d fruit under the sun-apples, pears, l'lnms. peaches, aprlcot., euincss, ncctarines, dates, grapes, oranges, lemons, figs, Times, olives, pome- granates ard others Of the citrus genus, all of delicious favor that cannot be raised in the rich, sandy loam. Fruits ripen 8 month earlier in the Territory than in California, and in consequences of their being placed on the early market bring better price than the fruit products of the coast.
 The prolific and rapid growth of vegetation IS a remarkable feature pt Arizona soii. A cottonwood SapliI g becomes shadetree twenty. tive feet high within two years; grapC cuttings often produce within -ighteen to twenty months; the ta:mer plants Tn November and by May his crop is read y to be harvest. 4d. Alfalfa yields from eight to ten tons per acre each year, snd the cereals frem twenty-five to fifty bushels per acre.
 A review of the agricultural con- iitions that prevail in Arisons .hows that the future of the Terri ory depends not upon her mining industries alone, nor on her tim Der, .ur her herds and focks ef stock; mt in later years It will bs found bat the era of social and intellec-