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varieties. Apples, plums, cherries, peaches and grapes thrive well as 

 do also the smaller fruits such as strawberries, blackberries, goose- 

 berries and currants. Fruit culture has as yet hardly begun, but 

 the ample facilities for irrigation will develop this industry as soon 

 as railroad transportation shall afford a market. Solomonville is the 

 county seat. 



GILA COUNTY. 



I ILA COUNTY possesses large tracts of land, which can be 

 * easily irrigated from its abundant supply of water. The 



land which lies along the line of the contemplated Min- 

 eral Belt railroad is very fertile. The soil is a rich, sandy 

 loam, which will grow almost anything, but its present distance from 

 all rail communication retards all attempts at fruit culture. Con- 

 taining, as it does, some of the richest mines in the territory, it can 

 afford to postpone its agricultural development. Globe, an enter- 

 prising mining town, is its county seat. 



COCHISE COUNTY. 



The immense mining and cattle interests of Cochise county 

 have absorbed the attention of its inhabitants to the exclusion of 

 farming. Its mines are said to have produced $25,000,000, and 

 its cattle number 75,000 head. Tombstone is its county seat. 



A CITRUS BELT. 



Yuma, Maricopa and Final there is no doubt that the orange, 

 lemon, lime, banana, fig and raisin grape can be successfully 

 cultivated. There is an ample sufficiency of water to irrigate 

 all the arable lands in the Gila and Salt River valleys. The 

 immense profits which can be realized from the production of the 

 citrus and semi-tropical fruits, the culture of the raisin grape, and 



