The Arizona sentinel., 1903-09-16
YUMA. ARIZONA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1e 1903.
,f the Eastern farmers are covered with snow

of the Eastern farmers are covered with snow and ice.
 Every variety of grains, grasses, fruits and vegetables grown in SeInitropic zones can be produced in the valleys of Arizona. Wheat, corn barley, oats and all the small grains give a yield of from twenty-five to fifty bushels per acre. Alfalfa. timothy clover Bermuda and all the cultivated grasses grow luxuriantly. the former giving from eight to ten tons to the acre each year, Every variety of vegetable raised in the United States can be grown in AIiZOna and nowhere are they found of better quality.
 Besides tn" products mentioned. these semi tropical valleys produce cotton, Sugar-canc, to- bacco hemp and rice. With the exception of the sugar cane but little attention is paid to the cultivation of other staples; but it has been demonstrated that the soil and climate are specially adapted to their successful growth. COttOn-growing is no experiment. in Arizona, for it iS on record that when the Europeans first penetrated this region, they sfOund the Pima Indians wearing fabrics made of cotton grown in the Cfila valley.
 But it iS their aGAptability for fruit culture that assures to these valley lands d dense pop ulatiOn and 9 prosperous future. Almost every variety known can be raised in their fruitful soils. The apple pear. plum. peach. apricot, qufnce and ncctarine. are of delicious flavor, and give q generous yield. The grape of all va rietieS is at home in these sunny valcS. No place in the grape-grOwiGg belt of the Pacific coast can show 50 prolific yield. The quality k all that could he desired; and the wine, although it's DlanufaC5urc iS yet experlInental, is of fiIfc flavor, delicious bOu1uct, and un-
 
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 Besides the fruits already mentioned. the orange lemon, lime, olive, fig, pomgTanate and others of the citrus family. can be grown sue ceSSfully in the valleys of Southern Arizona. Orange trees are now in bearing In Salt river valley and at Yuma; while the banana S also being cultivated at the latter place. The Ari- zona orange in quality and flavor will compare favorably with the best California.
 Tn the valleys of the Colorado the Salt and the Gila rivers. there iS room for thousands. It iS not too much to say that nowhere within the limits of this broad Union can be found a more desirable region for the making of q home. No laborious clearing of the land is re- quired it lies almost ready for the blow. Trees and Shrubbcry have so rapid growth that within eighteen months the immigrant cSp surround his abode with attractions which would require years to mature i'll less favored climates Fruits ripen and are ready for mar Iet full month before the California product. The bright sunshine k a luxury. and the pure dry atmosphere brings health to all who inkale it. For the establishment of colonies, such as have made of Southern California a garden, Arizona presents unriValed opportunities. Thousands of acres. now prOttleSS. can ce made productive by the construction of irrigat- ing ditehGS and there is no investment which assures larger or more permanent returns.'