BUDDING CIVILIZATION OF ARIZONA 



bilitics of Arizona. The conditions of climate, of soil, 

 and of irrigation arc all extremely favorable to the in- 

 tensive cultivation of small areas. 



Ten acres in southern Arizona constitute a good-sized 

 farm. Variously planted to vegetables, small fruits, or- 

 chard, and grass, and cultivated by the most scientific 

 methods, such a farm should yield a far better living, 

 and make a surer provision for old age, than one hun- 

 dred acres in the eastern and middle States, which 

 depend upon rainfall, and consequently produce the 

 cheaper class of crops. 



Lacking nothing in general advantages, Arizona is 

 deficient in the higher forms of industrial and social 

 development, which have made portions of California 

 the paradise of the common people, and which arc be- 

 ginning to shape institutions throughout the arid region. 

 The explanation is that the Territory is just passing 

 from the frontier stage into the first period of real civ- 

 ilization. The conquest of the desert has been well be- 

 gun, and the broad foundation of an intense economic 

 life substantially laid. It remains for the future to 

 build the superstructure. 



The people of Arizona have been drawn from many 

 different sources, and from more than one race, but 

 the pushing American element is distinctly dominant. 

 While there are many of the lower class of Mexicans, 

 they are much less numerous here than in New Mex- 

 ico, and much less widely diffused over the Territory. 

 The Indians, who arc seen everywhere, even in the 

 best settled districts, are now mostly inoffensive, and 

 even industrious in many cases. Like the Mexican 

 peons, they are useful laborers in the simpler agricult- 



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