the chief source of agricultural products for the Territory. 

 Naturally, too, her cities and towns have become the principal 

 distributing points for all classes of supplies going to the surround- 

 ing mining camps and settlements. ^Vithm the principal valleys 

 of the county are over 500,000 acres of tillable land. In this 

 connection it is -well to remember that one acre in an irrigated 

 district is equal to at least four acres in a ram country owing to 

 the multiplying of crops and the constantly renewed fertility of 

 the soil. 



Based upon the solid foundation of agriculture is the pros- 

 perity of Maricopa County, and underlying this foundation is 

 the constancy and regularity of irrigation water supply in the 

 Salt River Valley now assured by the building of the 1 onto 

 Dam by the Reclamation Service of the national government. 

 For years the Salt River Valley has been irrigated and culti- 

 vated by the settlers of modern times. So level is its surface 

 that it is believed the land was smoothed by ancient irrigators. 





