Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-20
FARMERS ARE
 COMING BACK
 FROM S|NALOA
Now Hunting Homes in the San Pedro Valley Under AteSian luigationi Good Crops Starting.
(The Benson Press)

(The Benson Press)
 Jesse Pehkins, who with a number of other farmers. came through Ben son from Idaho last winter, to go and settle on some of the rich lands of Sinaloa, has returned and arranged to locate in the San Pedro valley, and will move his family here without de lay.
 Not only will he move into this valley, but those farmers who went with him from Idaho. are also coming and will try to secure homes along the San Pedro river.
 When these people came through Benson last winter, they were full of enthusiasm over the bright prospect Of great success on the fertile lands of Sinaloa, and it seemed as though they had good reason to be, for the soil is indeed rich and the climate is fine for growing crops.
 The farmers did their part all right. They selected each his tract of beautiful valley land. plowed and planted and irrigated the crops. Twelves dollars per acre in gold coin was the price per annum for irrigat- ing, and they thought that could be afforded, because everything grew so luxriantly. The crops were harvested in due time, and shipped to market. Cantaloupes were sent into the Unit ed States. and it was understood that after deducting tariff and freight an commission, there would still be left for the farmer who raised them but Mir. Pehkins said he received partial returns on shipments of cauta- loupes which ran behind S6OO. then he. quit and left the country. He was in Sinaloa six months and came cut S1.50O behind.
 After examining San Pedro valley crops which tre now being harvested M- Perkins S& ted that the flavor oi both the cantaloupes and tomatoes of this valley beats the product of the Sinaloa country. Cosby Bros, the principal shippers of cantaloupes from this point, receives s2 per crate f. o. b. Benson
 Watermelons are also very fine in this valley. We notice that c. L. Sherman's wagon brought several leads from Horace Merrill's place Of the old Kleckley Sweet variety that flavor. fine shape and uniformly large size. We noticed load at Poin. dexter's that were beauties, averaging over 26 pounds each after taking out a few especially large ones for Mir. Merrill and his friends.
 Another farmer who came back from Mexico, is Jake Perrin. He rented H. c. KimbalTs St. David farm ten miles south Of Benson. for three years, and is now living there with his family. M KimbaH sold 300 pounds Of peaches and nectarines from this place, to Poindexter this morning that are very fine as to flavor and fair size.
 There are fl artesian wells on this place
 M. NJ. Scranton, of St. David. is irrigatiug four acres of garden from a three-inch artesian well that is not cased down but 120 feet, and only flows 15 gallons per minute. He has Dmatoes, sweet potatoes, squashes. corn. onions watermeIons and sor- ghun. It was planted last April. and has passed through the dryest per- lod ever known in this valley, and vet all except less than If acre of water melons are doing fine. and the water melons are not a failure either as he thinks they may come out all right in the end.
 tomatoes are especially success iul on this land, and the vines are well set with friut this summer as usual.
 Some farmers fail to do any good with the above amount of water and M- Scranton says success all de bends on knowing how to make tbs most of it. He has a reservoir. from which the water is spread once 4 cay, as far as it will go, so it will bot be kept over to waste by evaDo ration He has a few fish in the reservoir-probably 100
 Messrs. Loring and Kline bav planted ten acres of pink bean, tfriJoles) on their mesa land west o Benson. Part Of this land was nIowes six inches deep, and part was onI, Ioosened up with a disk harrow. Tn, beans were drilled in rows acros, both the plowed and disked land one end of the rows in each. Tba end of the rows in plowed land show. beans up and growing fine. while ol the disked land the beans were no up yet though they had sprouted The plowed land held most wafe rom recent rains, being wet twent
 inches deep, while the other was on ly wet down fourteen inches.