Arizona republican., 1917-06-17

opened wide ranges in choice of occu-
patton. Mining is easily the most i'm
portant industry giving employment di-
rectly through it's mines and reduction
work and less directly through other
channels such as mercantile business
in mining and smelling communities,
corporate and individual, to more than
half of the adult population of the
county and being the direct or indirect
source of income or support to 60 per
cent of the countys residents.
Livestock Is Important
Second in Importance from capital
invested and income derived comes the
livestock and cattle industry. Former
ly the valleys of the county were vast
open ranges, but settlement has driven
the herds to privately owned or leased
ranges or into the foothills.
Youngest of the industries of the
county. but most rapidly growing and
the present most important source of
increase of population is agriculture.
Each day come new settlers into the
valleys of Cochise, locating govern
ment land or buying ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
or making outright purchase of pat
| ented lands, the homemakers of today
! following the trails that were made by
the hardy pioneers of the past two gen.
| erations.
Good Military Post
In the days of the warlike Apache
| there We're military posts in Cochise
county at Fort Bowie and Fort Grant
Later there was established a small
post at Fort Huachuca. Recently this
post has been made q three regiment
post and about a quarter Ct a million
dollars spent in new buildings and i'm
provements. This post will become
more and more important as a market
for agricultural produce and otherwise
commercially for the nearby cities ant
towns of the county. 1t is far the mos
important army post ever established
in Arizona and the Improvements made
or now in course of construction arr
an assurance of it's continuance ant
maintenance at the foot of the Huachu
ca moutains for many years to come
4 Magnificent Forest Reserve
J In the mountains of the county
J especially in those wooded sections tina
, are included in the forest reserves
J scenery of magnificent grandeur an'
beauty abounds. In the canyons ar
ideal camping spots by springs or run
| ming mountain streams and in season
, the best of hunting is found. In tn
/ Huachucas, in a magnificent box can
Won. has been located a highly popula
summer resort and similar one is be
. ing established a short distance iron
Paradise. The former is Ramsay Can
} Won and the latter will be known a
: Rustlers Park But it is further bac
r in the mountains that hunting partie
3 establish their headquarters each au
!. tumn with the assurance of the full ba
Y of deer to each huntsman. Quail an
dove are plentiful and foxes and beal
. panther mountain lions and wildcat
! furnish sport for the hunter of large
: and fircer game.
4 While there are within the bound
U of Cochise county upwards of two an
0 a half million acres of surveyed land
: less than one-sixth of this is include
h in the tax rolls. Much of the rest ha
e already been filed upon, but not as y;
patented, still more is held by the stat
much is in the mountains and II
# adaptable to agriculture, but there "
g remain hundreds of thousands of acre
d of arabic land that are open to entr
h This open land is in all parts of tt
n county and offers homes for Thousand
of families upon the nations publ
% domain. Inquiry of the county ium
Y grafton commission, the commerci
e organizations of the various cities al
10 towns of the county, the United STATE
# commissioners in the chief cities
! towns will elicit information as to Il
e unappropriated lands that exist in pal
e ticular sections of the county adjacel
= to such points.
y Resources Are Magnificent
While Cochise county contains on
'e ne-twentieth, little more than p