Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-06
ARIZONA GROWS
 MOST ANYTHING
Even Cotton Is Now Cultivated with Success and Profit in the Territory. Good Boost of Agricultural Industry of Arizona by Fl Paso Herald.

In a leading editorial the Fl PasC Herald says in last Saturdays s issue of agricultural pursuits in Arizona:
 "What crops does Anzona grow9D
 It would be much easier to answer if the question were changed to read: ''What crops does Arizona NOT pro ducol' for the answer then would be the one simple word, nothing.
 But that would cut this editorial in its very early prime, so in order to avoid this and to give few facts about the wonderful country to the west of us that goes by the unpromising name of Arizona, we will take the question in its original form.
 There was a time when a majority of people believed that nothing in the form of crops could be raised in Arizona and when men, more daring than the others, cNperimented and found that some of the crops could be raised there it was considered remarkable. But the view of the majority broadened no fur. thcr than admitting that those few
 
 those who said to themselves that if some crops could be grown successfully surely others could and they immedi- ateIy proceeded to try.
 As a result there is hardly a product of the soil, common to the United States, but that is being raised in Ari- zona, besides many that are not to be grown with success in other parts. of the country. For two months this summer the at tention of the whole country was con stanty attracted to Arizona by its wonderful output of cantaloupes. Their superior was not produced anywhere. It must have been something of shock to the eastern housewife when making her order from the grocery to find that the merchant in obedience to her re- queSt for. some of the best eantaloupes he had to have them delivered marked as coming from Arizona-that far west crn country she was wont to look upon as a desert.
 When she ordered peaches the chances were that if those delivered to her were especially choice and luscious she would find that they had come from Arizona The same way with almost every fruit l known. Arizona produces the finest grades of any of them and the quanti- | ty isn t small, either.
 Arizona grows alfalfa, three and four crops a year of the finest put on the market Arizona grows wheat-wheat that makes a yield never equaled in the re- nowned wheat country of Kansas.
 And then to show how diversified are the crops that can be grown on her soil | she goes in for cotton and produces the | finest. whitest cotton to be seen any where
 To be sure, the growing of cotton has not progressed to a very extensive point | as vet, but enough has been done to | show that the soil and climate cannot | be excelled for the culture of this i'm portant plant. Cotton grown in the Salt River valley has been carefully graded, tested and compared with that pro duced in the southern states and in | other sections considered great pro ducers with the resul tthat it has been found to be superior in fneness of tex ture and in color.
 Naturally this has given much en- couragement to the people of the Salt river country and from this time on there will be a regular increase in the acreage of cotton.
 It is not beyond the pale of proba- bilities that the day will come. and that before many years, when Arizona will be looked to as one of the great cotton sections of the country.