Year: 1875

16O acres each, 400 farms of 80 acres each, or 800 farms of 40 acres each. This estimate which I think is as nearly correct as can now be made,

 will give the public some idea of the possibilities and probabilities of the future regarding this highly favored section. All kinds of grain, vegetables and root crops do extremely we'll here; and can truly say that in the great variety, quality and quantity, have seen no section of country on the Pa cifc slope superior to Pueblo Viejo valley. Wheat has been tried this year by Messrs. Chamberlin and Bail ey and found to do extremely well, and as soon as Touring mill is put in operation, wheat will become no doubt the great staple of the valley. Corn has made & wonderful growth, and of over forty fields visited, l have not seen poor one. Potatoes both

 sweet and Irish grow perfectly, and 1t would make the mouths of Tucson friends water to see the large, smooth, and mealy ones set out here for daily use, of both kinds. All other kinds of grain and vegetables seem to do equally we'll with those mentioned.

 Several persons have as an experi- ment planted small patches ot cotton and tobacco, all of which looks we'll,

 1 have never seen finer looking balls of cotton than here at "Clanton and other places where the experiment IS being made. It must also be remem- bered that two crops can be raised in each year here, thus virtually doub- ling the amount of tillable land in the valley, The time will surely come when this valley will become one of the most successful and prosperous in the Territory It is surrounded on al- most all sides by lofty ranges of mountains, most of which are of 6 mineral character, which in the near

 future will be thoroughly prospected and the rich veins therein developed thereby opening up a home market for the products of the valley. 1tis but forty miles to the noted Clifton copper mines, which are as rich and extensive as any in the world. A rich vein of copper and silver is in the upper part of the valley, which will no doubt be good thing as soon as the discoverer MT. Chamberlin, can induce capital to develope it. In Mount Graham a few miles to the southeast, are numerous indications of silver, gold, copper and lead. Just across the divide to the west gre the rich and extensive Ara vaipa copper and silver mines, and now there is O quiet but we'll authen- ticated rumor of wonderful rich and extenslve discovery 30 or 40 miles

 from San Carlos, which It Is claimed will fully equal the Silver King and other rich discoveries on the western slope of the Pinal mountains. The new discovery Is on the eastern slope. The only drawback is this; the late discovery Is on the Indian reservation which may cause some trouble and delay, yet this will not and cannot bc lasting or serious as the white man $ need ever has and ever will overcome all opposition to the working of rich mines on the public domain. Much dissatisfaction exists ill the valley re- specting the Indians, and a new ex- citment was caused only few days since by the killing of several head ot cattle belonging io the Clanton fam lily by the White mountain Indians who were caught in the act. Nc doubt full reparation will be made

 yet such acts tend to make much feel ing among settlers. MT. Cum vii

 no doubt do all he can to correct tht evil. H. c. HODGE.