Show THE GILA VALLEY its extent and prices frices of produce Prod nee safford graham co arizona jan 4 IM editor deseret news since leaving my home in ia taylor apache co I 1 have traveler traveled through a 4 considerable portion of this territory and a part of new mexico coming by way of luna valley N M I 1 find the ahe road over ibe moun mountains to be very gongli aad abc crooked on arriving at the gila gift river we finds find a beautiful trans transparent barens stream about as aa large as the provo river iu in utah we traveled forty miles do down toe the river to get to te this place in our opinion this valley has been beed greatly misrepresented it is a beautiful U atif ua valley and very extensive it is bounded on the south by the graham mountains whose lotty peaks are now capped with snow andoe and en the north by the tae magellan range of mountains THE VALLEY Is covered with and heavy brush anel and is very productive grain of all kinds does dees well here and cam cpm manda good the farmer one and a halt half cents per pound at his bis doer all kinds of af produce brings corresponding good iri prices ces eggs bring 35 85 to 40 cents per dozen butter 35 to OD 50 cents per pound potatoes doth both irish and sweet yield I 1 eld well and 11 nd grow very large resident president C laykun iD informed formed the writer that three sweet potatoes wh which ich come under h his observation wet weighed ched 21 pounds they were raised ac thatcher last season thousands of acres of fertile land that is now lying waste in the gila valley will in 1 the near future be brought under cultivation the health ot of the people is generally good we hear of no cases of chills and fever at present this moen disease se is principally confined to bo 0 are located near the pyor on t w and swampy hotto as those lat t live away from t the er river on higher ground freiot troubled with it the gila is not as sickly a country as has been reported by many respectfully yours A G Q mcclave |