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New York and New England combined. Arizona is a region of vast 
plateaus, in larger part from 5,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level, numer- 
ous ridges and mountains, some of them reaching more than 12,000 feet, 
and many wide desert valleys. The highest point is San Francisco 
Peak, north of Flagstaff, elevation 12,611 feet; the lowest point is on 
the Colorado River below Yuma, about 70 feet. On account of its 
great width from north to south and its range in elevation the State 
presents wide diversity of climate, with extremes in the low hot 
regions near Yuma and the cold forested mountains in the north. 
Although the agricultural resources of Arizona are not developed 
to their full possibility, even where water is available for irrigation, 
the farm products for 1929 were valued at $50,544,000 and for 1930 
at $37,000,000. The area cultivated, most of it irrigated, was about 
650,000 acres,” or less than 1 per cent of the area of the State. The 
number of farms in 1929 was 8,523. Of the total area, 10,526,627 
acres, or 14% per cent, is in farms or ranches, and their value in 1930, 
including buildings and machinery, was $194,644,470. Nearly 22,000 
acres is in fruit trees. In 1929 the cultivated hay crop had a value of 
$5,745,444, and wheat and other grains $2,061,808. In 1930 cattle 
numbered 695,118, with large yield of dairy products, and sheep and 
goats numbered 1,630,853 and yielded nearly 6,200,000 pounds of 
wool and mohair, ‘ecbiels sold for more than $1,600,000. Fruits of 
citrus and deciduous trees, a comparatively new source of income in 
Arizona, reached a value of nearly $2,000,000 in 1928. Cotton and 
corn are being more and more cultivated as new lands are brought 
under irrigation. In 1929 211,178 acres was in cotton, yielding 
149,488 bales, valued at about $15,000,000. Some of the cotton is 
of the long-staple variety, averaging 1% inches long, which is in 
great demand for automobile tires. This variety was developed from 
the Mitafifi stock brought from Egypt by the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture about 1900. 
Arizona is second to California in the production of lettuce, es- 
pecially the “‘Iceberg”’ variety, which yields two crops a year. Tim- 
ber has been an important industry for 40 years, with a cut of 
160,000,000 board feet in 1929, valued at nearly $5,000,000. The 
remaining timber, of which there is a vast area with a growthi esti- 
mated by the United States Forest Service at over 14,000,000,000 
board feet, is mostly in national forests, where it is cut under super- 
apg and brings a good revenue to the United States. 
_ Mining has always been the chief industry of the State, and it 
is estimated that 25 per cent of the adult population is connected 
with thisindustry. The total output up to 1929 had a value of about 
‘= These figures and the following | the imueres: Census of the United 
statistics as to farming, livestock, and | Sta 
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