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Show A MILD CLIMATE. , Letter From a Correspondent in SoBtbern Artiona. Tt'scox, Arizona, Do. 13, 1S90. ICorfuponJcixe" cXtMDxsrxrr Ssirs., It seems strange U it's in :tfUi-crn :tfUi-crn 'Arizona to read of 'sjowfilatAl severe coM In. the nirlh, for-here snow is unknown, save that once or twice drirlnft the Winter the peaks of the Santa Caliiiili Mountains (eighteen or twenty miles north), or the Santa' Ritas, sixty miles; south', show a glittering crest for a few days at a time. The Tucson rose bushes and other tender pUutvin the gardens are green all winter. Walking about town today I saw gardens blooming with fibers some rosea among them, and trees till green. Mulberries and umbrella trees have cast their leaves; but figs, peach and cotton-wood cotton-wood trees are still green athe latter keening in leaf all winter. The vegetable gardens afe luxuriant, with never ceasing growths of all kinds, prlnclfally beet: radishes, turnips, letiuct) ahd ptaAi Tucson I the second oldest terra in America, having been known as a town since 1540. Tho Spaniards la that year established a garrison there. It was then an old Indian town; but Tucson docs not seem to thrive very well, and seems to lack the. iUJ enrgjr nevdful for its prosperity. About three fourths of the population are Mexicans, whose unthinkiag habits and lack of energy en-ergy are proverbial always putting off until tomorrow manana everything that can be postponed. With Latter-day Saints as citizens, and with this delightful and preeminently pre-eminently healthful climate. South-era South-era Utah might become terrestrial terres-trial paradise. Kspeclally is Ibis true of the Salt River Valley, at Mesa, Tempe, Lebi, 'Nephi and" other villages ot the) Saints, whose altitude is much less than that of Tucson, which is 2400 feet above sea level, while Mesa "and neighboring plains are only about llMd feet. Tills low altitude renders Salt River Valley well adapted to the growth of oranges and lemons, of which about 13,000 were planted during this stason, and are doing finely. For grapes and figs it is much better than California, owing to toe absence ab-sence of fogs, which are quite a detriment in that State iu the raisin-dry! ng season. In the Salt River Valley, at Mesa two crops of cereals and vegetables, and six or seven of alfalfa (lucern) are assured every seasou, and people peo-ple suffer no more from summer heat here than in Utah, except that the warm period is so much longer, lasting from June to September, inclusive. in-clusive. But sunstrokes are unknown. un-known. For such as have no homes already and nre desirous of settling down, the Salt River Valley presents uncommon Inducements. Twenty or thirty acres afe as good there as eighty or a hundred In the north, and poor people can much more easily make a start for here. The w Iuter does not eat up the summer's sum-mer's labors and profits. J. H. M.umj.HAU. |