Excerpt from Maricopa County, Arizona: A Land of Golden Opportunities Maricopa County contains square miles. Or an area equal to that of the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Yet it is not the largest county in the great Territory of Arizona. Hut only one of the thirteen counties making up the square miles within the houndaries of the Territory, Within the county lies the largest hody of cultivated land in the Territory. Known as the Salt River Valley, irrigated hy the Salt. Verde, and Gila Rivers. Tch are the largest flood streams of the Southwest. Harring the Colorado. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.