SOUTHERN ARIZONA. / 



A clipping from the Arizona canal prospectus gives an actual case 

 which speaks for itself: 



" Col. William Christy, cashier of the Valley Bank of Phcenix, a 

 victim of asthma, aggravated by an old gun-shot wound through the 

 lungs, received in the late war, had reached the stage where he could 

 not lie down ; sleep had to be taken in a sitting posture. He came 

 to Arizona, and in three months could lie down and sleep as in 

 childhood." 



THE MAGIC OF IRRIGATION. 



every part of Southern Arizona come the most cheering 

 reports of large crops and general prosperity. New fields 

 are being cultivated. New irrigating canals are being con- 

 structed. New towns are being built. Valleys that but 

 a while ago seemed barren wastes are transformed by the magic 

 influence of pure, sweet water, into gardens blushing with flowers 

 and fruits. 



From the rivers that course through Southern Arizona's broad 

 domain, active and energetic men are leading out shining streams 

 and rivulets sparkling like silver threads, more silvery where kissed 

 by the bright sunshine as it falls from unclouded skies, winding for 

 miles through the alfalfa's richest verdure, circling past fields of 

 grain which gleam variously beneath the crimson beams of the 

 warm and genial west, bathing the feet of orange trees 



" Whose fruit and blossoms in the breeze 

 Are wantoning together free, 

 Like age at play with infancy." 



Anon they bubble among the vines whose red weepings shall shortly 

 stain the wine press, or whose mummified clusters shall gladden the 

 Christmas hearth. 



Nature wreathed in smiles banqueting through flowery vales and 

 lovely groves, transforms a desert to a paradise and brings to her 

 glad children the nectar and ambrosia of the gods. 



