Arizona republican., 1901-03-31

as great. All up and down the large
 canals every available piece of land not devoted to fruit raising Is planted to
 grain or alfalfa. pr. Chandler alone
 has 1,00O acres planted to alfalfa.
 Mesa has become famous, also, as | fruit raising section, and Mesa City
 people at least believe they have the best field in the world for the horti- culturist. The country was first heard
 of in this line as a grape growing re- zion, and it has lost none of it's reputa- ton in that respect, though branching
 out in other directions. Martin Schuele
 has 60 acres, w. K. Bowen, Dr. Chand- fer, A. L. Cuber and others have twen- ty acre vineyards and nearly every
 farmer has few grapevines. MT. Cuber | annually makes large quantity of
 wire and finds a ready market for It. Nearly everything in the fruit line is ! raised to some extent, but almonds and
 oranges are the particular pride of the
 Mesa horticulturist just now, and both
 are grown with the greatest success.
 Messrs. F. J. Trippel and A. c. Me | Queen lead in almonds and George
 Schornick and Mrs. Pritchard have fa-
 nous orange groves Mrs. Pritchard
 also has twenty acre apricot orchard as has c. T. Wise and others that could
 be named. while every farmer has his orcahrd of a few acres with a variety
 of fruits. In fact. many of them raise
 fruit extensively. The weather of late has been unusually cold and fears have been expressed that some damage has been done 10 the fruit crops. but toe
 growers are vigilant and fight the frost with smudges and liberal irrigation
 and 1t is believed that little, if any, in-
 jury has been sustained.
 Hay cutting will begin soon, in fact
 few small fields have already felt the | touch of the sickle. Harvest will be on | in a few short weeks and the black
 smiths and hardware men are all busy | disposing of new harvest machinery
 and repairing the old. The Wilbur
 Mullen Hardware Co, is one of the lead
 ing firms in this. line of trade, though O. H. Stapely, and in fact all the deal
 CTS in that line have their hands full. There is no rush or boom, and every
 one moves about in a quiet, contented | manner, but they all have some thing to do and look at the future ia
 satisfied way. Among the hustling
 business firms is the Zenos Coop. Co.,,
 one of the oldest cooperative institu- | ti0ns in the county, and one oc the most
 successful. A. Hunsaker has a good | dry goods business. and Barnet & Wingar are filling the wants of both la- | dies and gentlemen in the liua of furn. l ishing goods J. H. Barnett ahd J. w. | Bailey each have a good drug trade,
 and Le Baron Bros, the B. NJ. John
 son store and c. H. Connolly all have big general merchandise stocks. The latter has had a remarkable business
 success, growing from nothing to one | of the leading houses in the shors space
 of five "ears
 In the matter of caring for the trav- 1 eler, there is, as ever, the Alhany- l bra Hotel, and a place that has
 made many hungry men happy is the
 table of Mrs. w H. Barbour whose es- | tablishment IS deserveiiy popular
 Mesa has also a newspaper that is worthy of support, the Trca Press, ! which has lately branched out into a ! local daily under the managemctt of ! F. T. Pomeroy and Harry D. Hayres.
 recently from Salt Lake City It gives 1 the daily events of the town and prom
 ises to grow as the town grows. MT 1 Pomeroy is also engaged in the bicycle. sundries. news and novelty busi- ness having a good stock in all
 lines, and enjoying a good pat ronagc. He handles The Repub- ' lican and reports a constantly in- creasng list The Republican gets ' into the field first of all the daily pa [ pers with a telegraph service, anl seems to be appreciated.
 1 There Is one other industry on the
 cooperative plan that Is worthy of mention, namely The Cooperative 1 Flour Milling Co.,. It has recently re-
 ceived new machinery and sta.ted up after discouraging delay.
 The Mesa City bank is a thriving in- ! stitution. and Messrs. Waring and
 Spangler. both young men. are wreath
 ed in smiles. Their deposits have dou- | bled in the last five months, growth
 of business that denotes prosperous