Arizona : the land of sunshine and silver, health and prosperity, the place for ideal homes / by John A. Black.

  • Black, John A.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Arizona : the land of sunshine and silver, health and prosperity, the place for ideal homes / by John A. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    dimensions of the latter being five feet wide by two feet deep. Snow- flake is a desirable residence site, and its present meagre population will be largely added to at a very early day. Two story brick build- ings and fine orchards are features of the town. The grain facilities justify a first-class grist mill. At present a small flouring mill seven miles above Snowflake is utilized by the farmers and answers imme- diate purposes. Fruit, vegetables and alfalfa are raised in abundance, alfalfa selling at $S per ton. The town also possesses a tannery, and the growth of oak for tanning purposes is prolific in this vicinity. An excellent quality of leather is made, and the supply of the County is largely derived from this local tannery. At Nutrioso also there is a tannery which has recently been started and promises to meet with success. Woodruff, at an altitude of 5300 feet, is desirably located twelve miles southeast of Holbrook, on Silver creek, and comprises about 250 people. Seven hundred acres of good land are carefully cultivated and irrigated by small ditches taken from Silver creek. For the purposes of irrigation a dam has been constructed just above the town, thirty- five feet high and 250 feet wide at a cost of $15,000. While this dam has been washed out, the people persevere in its reconstruction, the land, in their opinion, justifying larger outlays of money for its main- tenance. Its present status justifies the hope that its permanency is assured. The chief products are wheat, oats and com, while vegeta- bles sujBBLcient for home consumption and considerable for exportation are raised. Bleven squashes raised in rich soil at Woodruff yielded a gross weight of 339^^ pounds, while watermelons weighing fifty pounds are a common product. Fruit such as currants, raspberries, gooseber- ries, grapes, peaches, apples and plums do remarkably well. The city of Holbrook furnishes a market for much of the fruit. Holbrook is situated on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and on the Ivittle Colorado river, at an altitude of 5072 feet, and has a popula- tion of 500. The mercantile establishments of Holbrook do a flourish- ing business, and two hotels furnish good accommodations for guests. Being a general supply point for a large portion of the County, business of all kinds is conducted to meet the demands. A large number of cat- tle and sheep are annually shipped from this point, it being the center of a district largely devoted to grazing, while supplies for Fort Apache, in the southern part of the County, are freighted by teams from the railroad at Holbrook to the amount of 3,000,000 pounds per year, as are also supplies for Pleasant Valley, in Gila County. Surrounding Hol- brook is as fine agricultural land as can be found elsewhere in the Ter- ritory, and three irrigations a year are deemed sufficient for the raising of crops. In the mountain table lands forty-five miles south of Hol- brook is a larger area of agricultural land that will grow the several