Show GILA covered up with letters ot iny 6 i io this the lat few ew daya and be lied on n all sides bloes by personal trials triads cehe th seemingly interested in artecona Ar teona country I 1 find it necessary feala I 1 appeal to you mr air editor far K 44 with vow voir consent paper to anwer in awer the numerous jadw of me aft ter tanin I 1 to veru aft d dy pub I 1 bave bae ba e it It haEt at mo of our pua ptiip re have a I 1 abbout aboa at xa x A S to ihrk ole llie wa pub lb and a hii higa stale wt JA to to 38 dounda und airl that corn ea hab T aten writer joi loredan 4 to tite all ah he ha edw sem of course the ba tet where uch snob 9 ga aft thera 10 a photo M aaa od the 00 of 00 the OM vally as to ft thit the fousta BO n ot haftl aliu but a A faank teft T t j ja 1 adhn people from your valley today and they verity verify your statements you all seem to agree on the general condition of your edu country of course these people have been put under proper training before we let them out of the valley this large potato is a remarkable exception though wagon loads are produced every year ranging from 5 to 15 pounds each while with tall corn about the only kind we grow as the corn and potato statements are now old and no doubt easy to believe I 1 will give you something to set you to think i ing johnson grass grows eight feet tall and red root weeds as large as a i wild plum tree actually while plowing in my corn field I 1 encountered weed roots chait would stop my horses such large roots the widespread leaves of one weed would cover four flour squared square yards of ground and an ax had to be I 1 used to cut them down before plowing could be successfully done but that is nothing we have a variety of weeds that look over our ordinary well trimmed trees sun flowers make good fence poles a limb of a young tree I 1 grew nine feet in one year and actually i a gratt in a pear tree grew six alx feet in one season and bore fruit sugar cane grows three or tour four years from the one planting and so on the writer has reserved some of the astonishing facts lest people would think we wa were over draing OUT our statements I 1 am willing to leavec the matter with others who know iv there should be any further question about the correctness of the statements formerly made and those in the above lines now to business in answer to letters of inquiry from frisco ogden cleveland emery county eden weber county logan and other places I 1 take pleasure in answer i ing as follows the land not already filed upon may be secured in the usual way by homestead or desert act but the choicest quarter sections have already been taken though there axe are still smaller pieces left forties and eighties near the settlements while farther away and in less leas desirable locations larger quantities may be secured after the survey of our canal was completed this last spring and it was fully determined that the new canal would be put through our people located all the choicest land that it might be pro properly P secured we felt that incoming saints might share with us on very reasonable terms choice farm faelli land under cultivation and that tha t not cultivated in and about our towns can be had at prices ranging from 15 to 50 an acre and even less in the rural districts there are thirteen canals already conveying water on our lands owned entirely by the me people of the valley A water right usually covers ten acres of land and in the majority of our canals can be had act 26 thou though gh in the montazuma and san ban jo je two canals holding prior rights tha prices we erre materM materially lly higher not merw th than one L third of the valley on an the wired side si of the river liver is in covered by canals the left to be covered by ow prospective enterprise th tb land above mentioned mot located local ted ant and which qan can I 1 be obtained on reasonable terms from those who have filed upon lie alls between ou pres present ent upper canal c aall and the foot fo othilla bills of the Grah grahach acL mp an I 1 along which we w hope in the futie to see tha waters qt or the E ent I 1 I 1 1 1 12 ning this canal Is ig to be ab nb tp entirely by the people tho the fa I 1 tion alon 0 can worked avy piew and acra iper there be betas web buta ut tew te w hundred teet of blast blaston lat laid and I 1 itis it Is tet ned tbt fatt I 1 on tire canal sia get phy pay iii ih stock ock arbil of f water priced tit t 24 baer aaen wath the X itt in cash cas of at olar t 6 per ceat I 1 ascribed W we te this LW 4 w isrow five entice uddo 1 of la to put punt it through this canal ahk constructed will be thirty six 6 long twenty five feet wide at the bao boa torn tom and four feet deep this boar source will be all we win will ever need 14 for the portion of the valley it covers good well water is procured at an average depth of fifty feet none of at which is surface water the more the more abundant purer and better it gets the river water is clear about three fourths of the year and is good for general household purposes I 1 consider the gila valley well watered I 1 trust this will answer all questions on the land and water s satisfactory to ow our inquirers there are no monopolists or syndicates as yet in our valley and wo w hope there will never be any to place the yoke of bondage on the people those purposing moving into ow country would do well to sell out an all cumbersome household furniture and farming implements everything dan be procured in the valley that is at prices about the same as in salt late city bring nothing but bedding A alia clothing unless it should valuables pictures etc As to trasa por tation if those who are going wa aji not already provided with aldU teams and traveling outfit it would b decidedly cheaper and better to gc tf rail as the cars pass immetta through our settlement our co c cor o ence rates round trip either by of california or colorado is in n neighborhood of 60 there is a it al arrangement by the railroads the accommodation of colonizers we vite the good people especially L latac day saints all of whom we wo goulda ulda vise to ask counsel of their s church officers before making sucha such A move I 1 would advise men earna earn J good pay to continue their employ rne aa securing what means they could to them at the same time sending sen jen ding a i K kt P tion of their f family to our valley fa procure land and begin the establishment of a home for the money ear earnnie earn uta NI w would be a very strong factor in nixa ma ing a start in a new country th earning into our valley would h have take their chances with us W we UA more help and the land already cultivation could easily sustain A many more people the empi abt by which to earn means is princia on the farm and the mechanical 1 necessary in building homes ho H 0 indu industrious sarious and enter enterprising sing r p may do well from the start ev ev V our new canal should not be coi co 5 ed we will welcome many g zeus zena the mountains ains are full of c there are at present three or fo mills in oper operation stion and aad them the clug C have flamed over three mile I 1 a choice mount mountain Are ream simin ft fl 0 abed as a chute through whit aul vey lumber from the tops of t 1 bains this when coMpre completed ted ib t ley will greatly reduce tho p lumber and convey conver to aie the v c hoice choice stream of wate which huoh i will no doubt be SA wal wt r 1 in our coming coan I 1 the hi t our vanes valley is a little rs of and as salt lake vaney Is 0 oy feet our tempera temperature tur is 00 ly that much mh warra warma delso we hay two months rainy n in ay 1 august otherwise wie have lyex weather th er almost the ane entire season abr health as a already e explained n ormer former letters lett erg we bow a n country no or 1 q also but faw contag contagious lous and ana th ot of o f ai wally malignant nant form it A is brud art ate aonie ty amt our A t find a perfect 4 eol daveni ha hax veni erro A k bo hurt but th thee acre aeed 1 now P t lift www i baw mi LA 6 you u need letter better glasses than I 1 wear ibe able to see them there are many tl and a great variety of liz pome horn toads and several but the bugaboo buga boo stories of the no us reptiles in the gila valley are ch ach like the many false reports told ast poor arizona I 1 call attention ab ray my former article written in july and statements maxie made in the interview on n the ath dinst in this paper as also the special souvenir issue of the guard wui a our local paper at stafford ariz panta ining the many items of interest W 0 our inquiring friends and if this Is aitto sufficient further inquires may be anade of me on other matters that may ha have v e been covered in the above boned n ed article address thatcher P 0 na ANDREW KIMBALL |