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which have not been able as yet to fnG
water enough through irrigation or in
springs to keep grave green.
It is hot In Arizona, particularly In
the southwestern part. The famous
town Of Yuma is located there. Most
of us have heard the story Of the resi-
dent Of Yuma who died Not having
been a guileless person, he was as
signed to the abode Of Pluto. Some
how he messaged back to his friends
In Yuma:
Not used to this cool climate. Send
me my blanket"
| And yet Yuma achieves only about
| 100 in the shade.
| Now great irrigation plant, one of
the governments many reclamation
projects, is about to make the desert
around Yuma blossom into paradise.
For the present alfalfa is the best crop
grown in Arizona, but the future holds
high promise Of wonderful things. I'm
Gle Sans agricultural sharps have
been Investigating possibilities in the
territory. They report that the crops
Of the FIXTURE are sure to be figs, dates,
oranges, lemons, apricots, raisin grapes
and almonds. 1t is discovered that
these fruits ripen earlier in Arizona
than elsewhere in the United States.
Several imported species of the Asiat-
ic date palm have been grown in ART
iona with fine success.
The climate Of Arizona outside the
heat, that sometimes becomes objec-
tionable, is in many respects ideal.
| The territory has more clear days in
the year than any other region in the
country. The air is clearer than any
where else. That accounts for the plac-
ing of the Lowell observatory at Flag
staff, where the astronomers looking
through the gigantic telescope have
learned more about the planet Mars
than some of us can believe.
But let us not forget another wonder
| Of Arizona. In Navajo county, which
is about the size Of an ordinary eastern
state, lies the world famed petrified
forest. Trunks Of ancient trees, some
Of them four feet thick, are petrifed
into onyx, which takes a glorious pol
ish. Table tops cut from these pre-
historic trees, now turned to many col
ored stone, are worth almost their
weight in silver. Score again for Ari-
IONA, since the world holds no other
such marvel as the petrifed forest near
! the town Of Hobrook
Millions of Wooded Acres.
/ In Arizona, despite the vast reaches
Of treeless desert. there are millions Of
acres Of timbered land belonging to the
present age instead of the prehistoric.
It is the prehistoric past Of Arizona,
however, that holds first thrall for the
scientist and student. Arizona is an
Gent Of days not only geologically, but
anthropologically Traces of people
| who persisted ages ago have left their
relics in that region. Even now some
Of the curious Indian tribes inhabiting
Arizona dwell in cliff cut abodes, make
and use pottery of very ancient pat
tern and have habits and customs
rites and ceremonies which may have
come down from a period already an
Gent when the oldest Egyptian mum
my was placed in his cerements.
There's nothing new about Arizona
except the 10000 people who inhabi
the coming state. Most Of them who
profess any religion are Mormons The
Roman Catholic church comes next
in number Of communicates Jesuit
schools in the territory date from 1857
Jamestown, Va, was settled only 300
years ago Plymouth welcomed, though
not warmly, the pilgrim fathers, moth
ers and children in 1920. Do Virginia
and Massachusetts wear extra feath
ers to plume themselves upon their an
tiqufty as antiquity goes in America
Very we'll. Pluck a large fowl fol
Arizona's pluming, for in 1885, nearly
a century before Jamestown and
Plymouth, the Padre Marco de Nizar
and his Spanish followers came uI
The next year Coronado led an expedi
ton through the heart Of the arid zone
into Utah looking for the traditional
seven cities of Cibola. These Span
iards found that the ancient Aztecs
had made settlements in Arizona anG
worked the copper mines. Later the
Spaniards worked the mines, long be
fore Captain John Smith was saved by
Pocahontas or Captain Miles Standist
was cut out by John Alden.
/ Has a Mind of Her Own.
After the Mexican war Arizona and
New Mexico We're coded by Mexico tt
the United States, except southern
strip, which was acquired in 1875;
through the Gadsden purchase. Ii
1863 Arizona was divorced from New
Mexico and became a separate terri
tory. The recent effort Of the admins
tration to force remarriage was
something, as we have seen, not to be
"stood for by Arizona, who has q
mind Of her own.
All things come to those who wait
: long enough. Arizona has been knock
ing at the doors of the republic fol
admission these twenty years past. II