The Arizona sentinel., 1900-01-24
ARIZONA'S AGRICULTURAL PRO.
 DUCTS.

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 Although thousands of acres If land are under cultivation in Ar;- zona' the agricultural development Of the Territory has only begun. Hundreds of thousands of acres of the most fertile soil on the com tlnent' in land of perpetual sun shine and in a climate cenducive to the growth of all the products If temperate and semi-tropic zones. await only the life-giving touch of
 water to convert them from desert
 tracts into luxurious gardens. This year the hot sands defy the propa- gatlon Of vegetable life; next year
 these same sands will feel the tbrob of the irrigation veln, and where only the desert shrubs once grsw there will spring up luxuriant vine.
 yards orchards heavy with deliei- ons fruits, beautiful gardens and
 broad fields of grain and grasses
 A prosperous population will find
 homes In the valleys of Arizona,s
 riVerS' attracted not enly by the
 luxury ot life in land of eterna! sunshine: whero every breeze carries
 "i'h It message of health and Vigor; where the scourges of otber
 localltles-blizzards, snew storms
 floods and cyclones-are unknown
 but also by the fertile soil vbo.a
 wonderful fecundity will enable
 man to reap the fruits of his labors
 within an almost incredibly short space of time.
 The soil of the A.izona valleys is as lnexhaustible as it is fertile. For ages the streams have carried down from the mountain districts the oetrltus which forms this soil. Frs- quent inundations and shiftino If channels have caused the deposit or the rich vegetable matters which have made the valleys of the Terri. tory, and especially those of the Sait' Giia and Colorado rivers. SD wonderfully fertile. The soil ranges from a black, alluvial mold near the water to a rich, mellow, porous loam further back from the streams
 The former is especially adapted to to the growth of grain and grasses while the sandy loam fulfiIls all the conditions for successful fruit cui- tHre. The growth of all products fruits, cereals and vegetables-is rapid and prolific. In many in- stances two crops are grown in a single year, while as many as SIX crops of alfalfa have been harvested within that period.
 There Is scarcely locality on the globe that can successfully grow as great a variety of grains, grasses. fruits end vegetables as Arizona Wheat, oats, barley, corn and all the smaller cereals yield enormous crops; every variety of vegetable known in the country is grown in Arizona, and every variety reaches the acme of perfection. Alfalfa. clover, timothy, Kafir corn, millet and all tre grasses have luxariant growth; cotton, sugar-can sugar beets, hemp, rice and tobacco thrive In the soil, while there is scarcely a fruit under the sun-apples, pears. plnms' peaches, aprlcots, quinces, nectarlnes, dates, grapes, oranges. lemons, figs, Times, olives, pome- granates and others of the citrus genus, all of delicious favor- that cannot be raised in the rich. sandy Ioam. Fruits ripen a month eariler in the Territory than in California, and in consequence of their being placed on the early market bring better price than 'he fruit products of the coast.
 The prolific and rapid growth of vegetation IS remarkable feature 't Arizona soil. A cottonwood 'apllrg becomes ashadetree twenty i've feet high within two years. rape cuttings often produce within ighteen to twenty months; the armer plants Tn November and by Hay his crop is ready to be harvest d. Alfalfa yields from eight to en tons per acre each year, and the ereals from twenty-five to fifty ushels per acre.
 A review of the agricultural con itions that prevail in Arizona hows that the future of the Terri 'ry depends not upon her mining