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Title: The resources of Arizona; a description of its mineral, farming, grazing and timber lands; its rivers, mountains, valleys and plains; its cities, towns and mining camps; its climate and productions; with brief sketches of its early history, pre-historic ruins, Indian tribes ... etc
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Hamilton, Patrick. (from old catalog) Arizona (Ter.) Legislative assembly. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & company, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e Santa Ritas, the Huachucas, the Chiricahuas, and the Pinalenos contains thousands of acres of virgin forest. In fact, Arizona has been favored by nature beyond most of her sister territories in the matter of timber. Besides possessing enough for her own wants, she is in a position to supply her neighbors for generations to come. Besides the pine, there are also large belts of oak and ash in the Sierra Blanca. The oak is of the white variety, the trees being tall, straight and remarkably free from limbs. The grand forest of the Mogollon has scarcely been touched; but it is not likely to remain long in that condition.Already a mill has been established near its northern boundary,and just south of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, and the Mineral Belt road, which is now under construction, will pass through it for over 100 miles. When this road is built the timber to supply the mills, mines, farms, cattle-ranges, cities and towns of Arizona will be drawn from this grand pinery. Many articles
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SEE PAGE 218 NATURAL BRIDGE, TONTO BASIN. Bancroft LITH S E WOOD AND WATER. 193 of wooden-ware and lines of furniture, which are now brought from abroad, will be produced at home. For building material the timber is equal to the best Oregon pine, and here is enough to supply homes for Arizonans until the latest generation. The glory of the Territory are the magnificent pines which crown her mountains and lofty mesas. With the richest of mines, the finest of grazing and farming lands, extensive coal deposits, and thou-sands of square miles of timber, Arizona has all the resources to make a rich, populous, and prosperous State. Nor has the Territory been neglected in the supply of water.The Colorado, the Gila, the Salt, the San Pedro, the Verde, and scores of other streams are capable of irrigating vast stretches of land. We have seen that the Territory was at one time the home of a dense population. The remains of acequias, or irrigating canals, are found in almost every valley, showing that hu

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