Year: 1869

made, with the view of forwarding the agri cultural interests of this Territory, was the project of sinkinp artesian wells, and of thus watering the vast plains which lie too elevated 10 dmit of the possibility of irrigation from streams as suggested by Governor Mccormick ill his message to the Fifth Legislature.

 It Would be quite superauous to enumerate here the many advantages which must ncces- sarily follow this system of irrigation, as the commonest observer has but to view the inn mense surface of country which during the July rains clothes itself with the most luxuriant vegetation, before being satisfied as to the result It is not more t4an just representa- . ton if we assert that the riches. lands in the Territory are at present lying waste because the locations of streams do not admt ot the possibility of conveying water over the surface, by means ot aqaeducts, and at very moderate expensl while, on the other hand, cold, bottom lands, over which water may b. cheap!y conveyed, require the most sklliuI management to produce crops winch may be considered even fair return.

 IL is about time that the people who have concluded to settle down and live by cultvating the soil in this Territory were aroused to study taeir own interests at the same time that the y may give the country fair trial, The bottom lands, so far as it is prudent or a lvisable for the pioneer to encroacA upon the dominion ot the Apache, are all settled, while laud most dssi.aDy located-at the very su5u ur5s of this town-and bearing upon its surface evidence ofts fertility, if water were to be had, is still unoccupied.

 We may take for example the whole extent of country lying between Tucson and the set tlerent on the Reito; ;his tract of country, watered only twice year-by the February and July rajns-produceS crops of hay thai will yield several hundred tons to every square mile; which is proof ample of what this land could be made to yield if water could be had at all times Now, there is but one manner in which such supply Of water may be procure and that is through the system of ar;esian wells. as recommended. We are almost con vinced that there are few, if any, who will not admit. or state as tAeir belief, that the lGudS above alluded to- may be cultivated and mad, to yield abundantIy by this system. Thus iaI the people have been restrained from engaging in the enterprise because of the enormous ex- pense which the boring of an artesian well i: said to incur yetin all probability the expense would not be greater than would be the cost 0 properly ditching couple hundred acres 0 bottom land, and then, this upland country, s, irrigated will, fits present luxuriance unde so many disadvantages constitute fit cri terion, yield crops which will surpass anything vet known of agriculture in Arizona.

 People have hitherto been satisfied with th products of land evidently inferior to that upo which grows the mezquet andirOnwood; but th mistake will be seen in time, It is eviden that water. constant and abundant, is all tha is required, therefore artesan wells must be srccess: and whoever shall be first in the iel may rest assured that he will fay the founda ton of future for the territory, bright an rapid in development-and, besides, that tn enterrrise will fill his own pockets faster ths ever our rich mines did the pockets of thos who have been fortunate enough to te thei discoverers.

 The only question which can arise to ma the feasibility of the recommendation is: ca m abundant flow of water be procured at reasonable depth and 2 hundred voices wi answer, we can imagine no reason why 1t ma not