| Show A PROLIFIC negi REGI REGION ON I 1 it DRY AND WARM pina PIMA graham co arizona A october 1884 editor deseret neus news frequent inquiries are madean made in reference to facilities of this part of the th e country and 1 take pleasure in giving a general reply through youn your paper the past season has been the driest known cormany for many years scarcely any rain having fallen it has hag also been the warm warmest esti the mercury rising on some occasions to degrees but I 1 find people can endure degrees here as easily as degrees in utah the blood seems thinner and a resla resia resident resident ent of this country will shiver when a person just from the north will be warm enough As a general thing the health of til the e people has been good along the gila some few cases of chills and malarial fever have existed here and at the present time there Is considerable malarial fever at st david on the san pedro but such complaints as rheumatism diphtheria croup coughs and colds are almost unknown and arla taken all in all this Is a very healthy country 9 and aud has a most delightful ele eie climate we have had no f frost rost yet and trees are still clothed in a lovely green A FRUITFUL COUNTRY small grain alid alad corn do well wheat has yielded CO 60 bushels to the acre and barley 80 at st david and sweet potatoes cotton peanuts and all kinds of fruit do well M melons eions are simply immense as to number size and quality sorghum grows luxuriantly and may be cut rei rel repeatedly in one season in fact it is hard haid to kill it out when once planted this is the place to erect works for the manufacture of su sugar ar the soil and climate being specially chaily adapted for sorghum lower down the river louisiana cane does well and the natives make tons ton s of sugar from it but it has not yet been planted here trees grow remarkably fast here fence posts when set immediato immediately ly grow and become large trees either cotton wood or black willow english walnuts and figs on father paces farm look well also grapes peaches etc TEACHERS AND TRADESMEN WANTED school teachers are much touch needed here abat that is properly qualified ones they are welt well well weli paid from the public f funds this being bein galand wiand saland of free schools and poverty need debar ho one from sending their children several teachers are wanted here in this valley now masons nia aia sons carpenters makers and other tradesmen trad esquen are very much needed and andrau cau can do dowen dower well weli in a new and opening country there are plenty of openings for men and women of cherey and ability abid this is emphatically true of southern arizona to all ali such we t extend ah a bearty hearts earty yel yei yel yei come town mown plats bave have been surveyed at thatcher Tb atcher graham and pima pirna and curtis layton lay ton and central will be pu aboon ti adon as possible with the energy clergy and shill of our people e 0 p le we hope this country wi will ISO soon op a e exchange x e hange its wild and primitive appe appearance arance lor tor for a more attractive one and become as it may be the garden of the south JAS H |
