Show LETTER PROM FROM ARIZONA reeves bird has found a mecca at mesa arizona i in a letter from deones bird in which he encloses a check for the express to come to his southern home he tells what he be thinks of 0 that country where they can raise five crops of alfalfa la in the year ile he says bays hla his health la Is much improved and that he and another man have just finished putting in two hundred acres of grain wheat will sell at the mill at harvest time for cash and at harvest time for 2 60 per cwt cat he say eay how many bushels can be raised to the acre but says the soil Is very fertile the improved land la Is worth from 75 to per acre and desert land sells for to pet per acre the people are happy because they can ork aock all summer then pitch tight right in and work all winter the farmers sow BOW their wheat oats oata dont do wellIn dowell ln the fall then turn the stock in to feed during the winter until in n february when they are removed and by june the grain la Is bar harvested vested and coin Is planted and a good crop matures before winter depts LIL the dairying business to la a 9 good one according to mr bird butter la Is 60 tents cents a pound and that in a country where ten acres of alfalfa will pasture thirty head ot of cows it certainly bought to turn out some wealthy people tor for they raise five crops of alfalfa and sell beell it tor for 12 a ton baled there Is a big dam daan going in about forty miles above pheonix and it will cover all the desert land in that vicinity rich men buy the land and poor men get rich by leasing it for the improvements the put onto it by cultivation every product brings a cash market most anything can be raised ex hepting vernal apples and potatoes lind and they content themselves b cat ing sweet potato potatoes es we hope reeves lets us know just how he likes like that salubrious climate about jul july y and august 0 |