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ARIZONA. A COLONY ON THE COLORADO. 



Representatives of the French and Scotch syndi- 

 cates, who intend placing a colony of wine-producers 

 near the mouth of the Colorado river, have returned 

 to Yuma, after having made a careful survey of the 

 streams which leave the Colorado that can be used 

 for irrigating the great valley of the Colorado west to 

 the main range of mountains. Upon the arrival of 

 the owner of the lands, Gen. Andrade, negotiations 

 for the purchase of the lands will be closed. 



countrymen to take hold of tha advantages offered 

 them in the delta as well as the uplands." 



ITALIAN TRUCK-GROWERS. 



Mississippi is Obtaining a Population that Would 

 Thrive In Southern Arizona. 



The people of Mississippi think they have discov- 

 ered that there is a desirable class of agricultural 

 population to be obtained from certain elements in 

 Italy. Doubtless this is true and it occurs to us that 

 there are places in the Arid West southern Arizona 

 for instance where the same people would thrive. 

 A recent issue of the Vicksburg Herald says: 



" Interest in Italian immigration has been greatly 

 stimulated by the various articles in the public prints 

 referring to the subject. It has been remarked that 

 for examples of the thrifty prosperity of Italian agri- 

 culturists and truck-growers, as well as of their adapt- 

 ability to the climate of the lower Mississippi valley, 

 it is scarcely necessary to go as far as Friar's Point. 

 Similar instances are numerous in the vicinity of 

 Vicksburg, and for some years past several Italian 

 families have been farming successfully on Big 

 Black. 



"The Italian residents of Vicksburg take a decided 

 interest in the movement and so far as heard predict 

 the most favorable results from it, both to those who 

 may come here and to the country. Several years 

 ago one of these, a citizen of prominence, said it 

 would be an easy matter to induce Italian immigra- 

 tion. It was only necessary to advise the immigrants 

 wanted of what they could depend upon securing 

 here and to assure them that their coming would be 

 welcome to the resident population. Their industry 

 he said, would effect a revolution in agriculture and 

 make this the richest portion of the South. As to 

 their thriving here he had no doubts whatever. 



" Vice-Consul N. Piazza, a resident of this city for 

 many years, said yesterday that he had received a 

 letter from the Italian consul at New Orleans on the 

 subject of immigration. Mr. Piazza, who is neces- 

 sarily thoroughly posted through his long residence 

 in this State, is in a position to render his homeseek- 

 ing countrymen and the communities which desire 

 their assistance in agriculture, valuable assistance. 

 He spoke with approval of the plan and had evi- 

 dently the fullest confidence in the ability of his 



Sixty families from Indiana are talking of settling 

 in Phelps County, Neb. 



A car load of Russians direct from Russia is en- 

 route for Chamberlain, S. D. and immediate vicinity. 



There's an effort on foot to colonize a lot of Italian 

 farmers in Barber county, Kan. This is an industrial 

 and not a political scheme. 



F. E. North, formerly a resident of Iowa, but now 

 making his home in Mexico, is in Chicago trying to 

 organize a colony to go into Mexico, and work his 

 coffee plantation. If he is successful he will go into 

 the coffee raising business quite extensively. 



California boasts of a number of women farmers 

 who manage large estates, make money, and keep 

 healthy and happy. Of course, the comforts of farm 

 life are greater than they are in the east, and there is 

 a possibility of gaining more than a mere living. 

 Some of the women farmers have won more than 

 mere local fame. 



The supervisors have directed the district attorney 

 to draw up a resolution relative to the incorporation 

 of Pleasanton, Colorado, as a town in accordance with 

 the petition of the citizens of that community. The 

 population of Pleasanton is 937. 



The town of Fruita, in Mesa county, has been in- 

 corporated. 



Thn editor of the Electrical Age predicts that by 

 the year 1900 our homes will be heated by electricity 

 supplied from large central stations and distributed 

 through street mains. The idea is practicable even 

 now, the economic factor being the only one as yet 

 unsolved. 



Western America is the name of a new irrigation 

 publication issued monthly from Omaha. The North 

 Platt valley receives its full share of attention, and in 

 the last issue especially so, as a comprehensive write- 

 up of Gering and the two counties of Scotts Bluff 

 and Cheyenne appears from the pen of G. H. Law- 

 rence. 



Irrigation is making an impression, and gaining 

 ground rapidly. The papers of the East are giving 

 ten times the space to this class of news from the 

 West that they did two years ago. 



The county horticultural society idea is spread- 

 ing fast. 



