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Gila, and affords abundant water to irrigate its valley, a tract 
including a half a million acres, or more. The land for the most 
part is covered with cactus, sage brush, grease wood, and mesquite 
trees, but when cleared and brought under irrigation is made to 
produce abundantly almost any and all the crops of civilized hus- 
bandry. Fruits and cereals grow in profusion, and the land is said 
to be well adapted to the growth of cotton and tobacco. The land 
rises from the river at a gentle slope, a fact which is of great import- 
