| Show aristina 1 ft the territory of arizona has ifor llor many years been considered the tui tUl ultima tima thule thuie of the united states a land of barren birren wastes and rocky deserts a ft ak home for the savage apache a land where every bush was supposed to have a and where every man was waa reputed to be a thic thie f how di Terent different the fhe he reality I 1 about one third of the territory Is covered with timber about one third Is agricultural and grazing and the remain remaining hig third truly rocky and desert land at almost every variety of climate can be found in arizona from that of torrid heat to almost frigid cold while ansome in some of the tho mountain vat valleys reigns almost perpetual spring almost every variety of fruit can be procured here from the apple and other fruits of the temperate zone to tho the orange lemon fig porn pomegranate I 1 eg ranate and even banana banada of the tid tropics all the vegetables and other productions of the lanas lands of california cai cap be cultivated with equal success bero hero bere in arizona irrigation is in general necess necessary ary here berg although not so much yat vat water ar is needed as in Wi california fornia j owing to the summer bummer rains inde indeed in some parts of the territory good crops are raised without any artificial irrigation whatever in y years sears ears eans long iong gone by arzona arizona evidently was peopled by a large and industrious population this is ig most cofeld conclusively shown by the rast and extensive ruins which h yet remain ruins of aides cities cov covering ering extensive plains now desolate and peopled only by the lizard and bilake remains of ditches and artificial I 1 water courses still exist show that large areas of land were cult cultivated by thes these 0 ancient ancien fc people who sho had evidently attained a high degree grbo of civilization 1 they were as alithe all nil the aborigines of arizon Anzo a now arp are aro worshippers wor shippers of the god of days the the sun the geology of arizona Is one of ita ifa lf most wOn wonderful derral feat features uras indeed almost every formation k aown to geologists exists in vari tart ious parts of the territory and there thele are pie pio also many curious freaks ofha of nature unknown to other parts of ahe fhe globe but the greatest wonder of all the mighty wonders of the pa cefic siope slope is the grand gnand catlon cation of the the crowning wonder of the natural world before begore which I 1 niagara drops to insignificance and anil even Yo pales for over three hundred miles the rio colo cola rada cuts its wey way wiy through the rock leaving the walls rising in mapy n places to a perpendicular height of over thousand feet down down dowil through the M many n b y formations capped with iava lava jt hag fia 9 cut dut its alien t yay way xay duning during the tho are age lay jay j mg lag open q en to tho the awes awe s stricken gist thid this inmost secrets of his sel ene eme une showing bimi himi him aa as is 19 shown nowhere else in the world in one mighty volume examples of the most interesting perlo perio periods ids and group gro ilpo making clear cleaf things before uncertain and changing scientific theories theoties into into established facts eti ati the flora and fauna of arizona are different in many respects from those of the re rest qt of tho the world dif ferent even from lands within our own borders the digani zeus here a size that Is wonderful often rising like a fluted column fifty and even sixty feet high bl bib hib b the aava a 0 ava americana yucca brevi broil folla folia and lignum vita are by no means rare deer and antelope ante anle lope lopo are arc plenty whilo while in the tho wooded portions the wild turkey bear and panther abound among reptiles the horned rattlesnake rattle rattie snake derma are peculiar while centipedes scorpions and tarantulas are plenty alid and the variety of liz lizard arap is JIB legion but the tuala dependence of arizona must bein bo in the vast east hue hub as ns yet undeveloped mineral Imiri eral lands which thich lie lle within her border the i mountains are one ono mighty network of gold and silver hearing ledges and what has lidi heen heer been clone none toward the working of these i has astonished all conc concerned with the country I 1 say little has bas csehh done for although much money i has leen teen been spent and much vvo yvo work fk done dune yet through tho the age Ige general dUdl inefficiency and oftentimes esty of i tife result hasteon has been failure as ift would been under similar el f elsewhere ou oar r distance distante froni from the greaff centres bentres of trade and commerce our wretched means meang of transportation our slight mail mall facilities el cili clil ties the high charges for every thing necessary to a livelihood oun our sparse population arld and the old time hostility of the tho indians have havo nil nii hll bil all combined to keep us us in the tho miro mire and prevent our getting capital enough in the tho co country to prova prove to the outside world what we really possess namely the richest mineral section 0 the globe but times aro are fast changing tho the ra railway liway is nearing us with great grgat I rapidity soon the whistle of the locomotive will waken the echoes of ot our hills and valleys air 1 ehly emigrants are pouring g in 16 iro irom from m north east south bouth and west our mines are being worked greater vt vigor or and in more systematic ways mills aro are turning out their shining bars of silver and gold capitalists fai fil aie ale awaking to realize the fact that arizona is a land deemin teeming with hidden wealth that all is got zot not berea here a barren and desolate waste of sand that ofir people are not all thieves and cut throats that we are not composed of the scum of the pacific slope as a few years ago was said but that our population is industrious tt iotis well weil behaved and in no way inferior lo 10 that of california and tArizona tha isso ig so fast rising in importance and wealth that soon she will take her il place ace nee among the sisterhood r alood of states stales 8 and play no iio llo unimportant part in the history of me the pacific slope Wall apai enter prise |
