Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-27
5OO ACRES FILLED
 ON BONANZA FARM
Unprecedented Record Made in Warren District for
 RGClaiming Desert

About six months ago. when Mesrs.
 HOyland and Smith were buying up
 everybody's mining claims on what
 was commonly known as the Don Luis Flats. speculation was rife as to what
 was on the program next in the indus
 trial development of the Warren Dis. trict. This speculation was allowed
 to continue for several weeks, when one day H. A Smith announced in a quiet way. with a smile playing around the corners of his mouth, that he and associates had an idea of start
 ing a farm in that direction. Then everybody laughed. To be honest. the Review took no stock in that farm talk at the time. IL looked more like a townsite proposition, or the scene for new development company.
 But, during the first part of April. MT. R. NJ. Johnson, a practical farmer of many years experience in the Salt River valley, arrived in Bisbee to con suit with MT Smith. The consulta- ton was brief. and short. Mir. John son decided to cast his lot in this sec ton and to undertake the task of re- claiming four or five sections of land within three or four miles of Bisbee which heretofore had never produced anything but jack rabbits and grease wood He hurried back to Bisbee. and on the 14th of April he again ar. rived on the ground with a carload of horses and farming machinery. The next day he put force of men to work clearing the ground.
 h the meantime Messrs. Hovland & Smith had been busy. They secur- ed the right to all he water being pumped from the Bonanza Circle shafts. and immediately began the construction of tAssn.Iss which were to extend to the6 6sSN'te. A small company or parkSp was formed, and Tom Collins. ThOs. Cole, MT. Congdon and other Bonanza Circle
 kings were let in on a good thing. Telegrams had to be repeated over the wire on more than one occasion. Tine eastern mining men couldn't get the idea of a farm associated with the Warren district Heretofore it had all been mining and they naturally shied away from irrigation, pumpkins and alfalfa, but trusting to the good judgment of Hcvland and Smith, who were on the ground. the financial end was made easy Tn the neighboThood of fifty thousand dollars was placed in the bank here for farming pur- loses. ard the enterprise vas launch ed ir the middle of April.
 In the meantime Johnson was clearing land. building ditches. throw ing up borders, and camping out "n the flat under difficulties. Fencing material was delayed and a white shirt could not be left hanging on the line without fear of losing 1T.
 All the stock had to be driven two miles to water but nevertheless the force was continued at work and in the meantime the Hume was coming nearer and nearer to the first forty acre tract with the water in bounti- ful qauntity to irrigate five full sec tions of land. Finally on May 5th the first crop of millet was planted, even before the fences were put up, and on August Is this crop was har vested and is stacked for Iced purpos- es in connection with the dairy.
 At the present time there IS in cul- tivation about five hundred acres. The entire tract of three thousand acres is under fence and three hundred ad- ditional acres of barley and oats are being soWn. The five hundred acres at present under cultivation consist of corn 150 acres; alfalfa 200 acres; kaffir corn and sorghum, loo acres; vegetables 10 acres and barley 10 acres.
 The ten acres of vegetables include a various assortment: tomatoes, cu- cumbers, corn, onions. cabbage, let luce, melons and an acre of peanuts, as fine as can be grown anywhere.
 That the farm will soon supply Bis bee with everything in the vegetable and dairy line IS evidenced by the i'm under way. At present the dairy is to be brought up 10 the re- A COW barn with di- mensions of 40X19O is under consrruc- tion which will house 1Z5 dairy COWS Small car tracks will traverse this building lengthwise to facilitate the handling of the feed and the milk. At lnilked which give an average of about l50 gallons per day. This supply is i unable to meet the demand but with l the new dairy equipment 1t is the intention to soon supply every fam | fly in the Warren district with milk, | butter and cheese fresh from tLe dairy.
 In the dairy herd are fourteen fine Hoistein COWS, which together with | TWO bulls cost the oWLers in the i leighborhood of four thousand dol lars and were brought from F. B. Far sO's stock farm in Wisconsin to Phoe- nix by Thos McGinnis.
 The 15O acre tract of corn which . was planted on the I4th day of July Is the pride of the ranch. A good crop will be gathered this year which will average 50 bushels to the acre Part of this yield will be shucked md placed on the market and the re- will be cut stalk, and all md chopped up for feed to the dairy ,ows.
 In all departments of this big ranch ng project the best has been none b good, and COchise county is destined o win fame in a different direction