CHAPTER II 



INTO THE WILDERNESS. 



OUR evening's ride carried us through 

 the characteristic arid land lying be- 

 low the timbered region, the greater 

 part of it incapable of agricultural develop- 

 ment because of no known water supply for 

 irrigation. It is said that not much more than 

 five per cent of Arizona is adapted to agricul- 

 ture, because of insufficient water to irrigate, 

 but it is probable that much of that now 

 deemed practically valueless will some day be 

 watered and tilled through the discovery of sub- 

 terranean springs. 



At sunset we rode into Shumway, a little fron- 

 tier settlement lying in a depression in the hills, 

 where the water of a small brook irrigates two 

 hundred or so acres of land which the settlers 

 have brought under a high state of cultivation. 



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