Show ARIZONA good crop prospects A fertile region PIMA june 20 1888 editor deseret deseret news perhaps a few items from this part firt of arizona may be of inte interest rest to the numerous readers of th the e NEWS many of whom have old time friends or relatives residing here As aa to news there is but little ot interest occurring here As in all new coun countries trie people are generally heavily burden burdened 4 with labor in IB having so many things to do at once such as building fen fencing clig making mabine canals clearing land plowing sowing and harvesting but t the e people are prospering and rapidly improving the country one great trouble here is that people have too much land they are mostly immigrants from utah and naturally wish for as large farms here althey as they had bad there ther ewhen when in fact they hey only require half as much for forty acres here is as good as seventy five or eighty acres in utah from the fact that here we raise two crops each season on the same land and cut from five to six fully matured crops of lucern each year for most men TWENTY ACRES will keep them busy if they farm as th they should harvesting Var harvesting vesting and threshing began in may and crops here heie are very good I 1 have aa seen fields of grain standing as high as my shoulder potatoes have been in market since the middle of may peaches and green corn are being enjoyed by some while sweet potatoes melons apples peaches grapes ra es apricots and nectarines necta rines are footing looking well almost everything planted here does well peaches bear fruit the second year from the seed grape cutti cuttings agg planted this spring now have grapes in tempting looking bunches though usually they do not bear till the second year the climate has changed considerably since the first settling of the gila valley in that rains occur more frequently and it if the saints can retain their possession here a few years will show what was a desert changed to a garden during the last two years over fruit trees and grapes have been planted ted besides many thousand shade trees and activity in this direction is constantly increasing it would be a profitable pro fiMble experience for some of those who think utah is the centre of the universe seto to travel a little and see what is done in other places and the different ways of doing it it would be a blessing to many in utah to leave that crowded locality and build up homes and business here herb we need GOOD MECHANICS of all kinds a tannery a good four flour mill capable of making lour flour that would compete in the market with the los angeles or denver article we also need good school teachers this territory demands first class teachers or they cannot obtain more than a second elass calass certificate which means quite a reduction in salary teachers receive good wages here from 60 to per month in cash paid irom arom tile the county treasury and aad their pay is sure we have free schoola in arizona which makes it possible for the poorest to get the foundation of a good e education uca I 1 and the system works admirably the indians on OB the san ban carlos reservation er are advancing rapidly in civilization and this season will harvest many thousand bushels of grain besides peaches grapes etc and the indian children in school show as great aptitude for learning as an equal number ol 01 of white children it seems as if the vmae was drawing near for their redemption from their present degraded condition as they show more and more a disposition to abandon their nomadic habits and become industrious dust rious and settled like the indians of mexico who constitute the great proportion of the laboring population ind and where some have attained the highest positions in the judiciary the army and in the councils of the nation X |