. To California and back;. eeping view of the its apex, in the innumerable spout-holes thatwere the outlet of ancient eruptions, are the cave-dwellings, around many of which rude stone-wallsstill stand. The story of these habitations is like-wise wholly conjectural. They may have been con-temporary with the cliff-dwellings. That they werelong inhabited is clearly apparent. Fragments ofshattered pottery lie on every hand. CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA. From Ash Fork, west of Flagstaff, the Santa Fe,Prescott & Phoenix Railroad extends southward overan elevated region commanding wide vi
. To California and back;. eeping view of the its apex, in the innumerable spout-holes thatwere the outlet of ancient eruptions, are the cave-dwellings, around many of which rude stone-wallsstill stand. The story of these habitations is like-wise wholly conjectural. They may have been con-temporary with the cliff-dwellings. That they werelong inhabited is clearly apparent. Fragments ofshattered pottery lie on every hand. CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA. From Ash Fork, west of Flagstaff, the Santa Fe,Prescott & Phoenix Railroad extends southward overan elevated region commanding wide views, throughcanons and valleys of great beauty, and past someof the largest copper-mines in the United States, forsixty miles, to Prescott. This city is to the northernhalf of Arizona what Denver is to the State of Colo-rado: a distributing and shipping point for a largesurrounding country in which mining is the greatestactivity, with horticultural interests rapidly develop-ing in pace with facilities for In the winter of 1893 this railroad will havereached Phoenix, the capital, which is located in theSalt River Valley, 140 miles beyond Prescott—a mag-nificent level floor, walled in by mountains, and con-taining a million acres of irrigable lands. Here, ina climate where snow is unknown, nearly every Va-riety of fruit and nut, except those that are absolutelyrestricted to the tropics, is grown in extraordinaryprofusion, in addition to the ordinary cereals andvegetables of the North Temperate Zqne. The list islong, and includes grapes, quinces, apricots, peaches,nectarines, pears, plums, prunes, pomegranates,loquats, guavas, Japanese persimmons, figs, oranges,lemons, olives, dates, peanuts, almonds and neighborhood of Prescott yields vast quantitiesof copper, and not a little gold. There are, amongother famous deposits, the United Verde copper-minesand the Congress and Rich Hill gold-mines; the last-named situated upon an isolated peak, where in theea
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