12 Fruit-growing in Arid Regions 



of a few acres in extent, and each self-supporting and in 

 many instances yielding the owner a good income. These 

 communities often extend over hundreds of acres, and yet 

 the homes are so close together as to suggest to the traveler 

 that he is passing through the suburbs of a large city. 



This centralizing movement has already begun in the 

 Rocky Mountain region, as one may see by visiting the 

 more prosperous communities in any one of the several 

 states, such as the Grand Valley in Colorado, the Cache 

 Valley in Utah, the Willammette Valley in Oregon, the 

 Yakima Valley in Washington the Payette Valley in Idaho, 

 Bitter Root Valley in Montana, the Mesilla Valley in New 

 Mexico, and many others. We may confidently expect to 

 see this movement increase very rapidly in the near future, 

 and the basis of this intensive farming will be the various 

 horticultural products. 



