Perhaps Not not even close to many towns had been Chinese-tended veggie gardens. The men coordinated their efforts in cultivating fresh produce along the banks of the Gila River near Guthrie in the Clifton area. Every two weeks, six Chinese from Clifton would venture out to the gardens to alleviate another combined number of six, who does then come back to city. 19 The gardens at Fairbank, in southern Arizona, provided produce that is fresh Tombstone and Benson. Along the Santa Cruz River near Tucson several parcels of land were leased within the 188os to farmers that are chinese.

Over one hundred acres within the Tucson area were being cultivated by the Chinese at this time. Much of the land had been owned by Leopoldo Carillo, Samuel Hughes, Solomon Warner while the Sisters of St. Joseph. During one of many water-rights hearings in 1883, a witness contrasted Chinese and Mexican gardens. A Mr. Stephens testified that the Chinese gardener

«raises cabbages, garlic plus in fact everything within the vegetable line from an artichoke to your biggest cabbage, plus the chinaman causes it to be a matter of business and he produces all he is able to, so that as often as he are able to. The garden that is mexican a few chili peppers, onions, garbanzos, beans, melons & etc . » 20

These produce that is fresh were irrigated from acequias twice more frequently as industries of wheat, barley and cotton. The gardens that are chinese of Sisters’ Lane needed water continuously, and many associated with the townspeople thought this distribution of water had been unjust. Anglo landowners, nevertheless, were eager to rent lands that are available the Chinese for cultivation, sometimes to the dissatisfaction of women looking for women others. In a page to the Presbyterian Home Mission in New York, Superintendent Howard Billman for the Tucson Indian School had written on June 26, 1889, that he really inspected the irrigation techniques of this Chinese. «Some thieving Chinese us,» he complained above us were simply robbing. 21

Therefore Chinese gardeners became the vendors of fresh produce that no other pioneer settler felt it profitable sufficient to promote in northern, central and southern Arizona. an interesting location for a garden ended up being even available at the Territorial Prison at Yuma. The Arizona Republic on 10, 1893, reported the institution was in november

«shipshape purchase, the yards kept well and green with lawn, the garden, where formerly calabasas [pumpkins] had been raised, happens to be transformed right into a regular French veggie yard attended by a Chinaman who is lodged here for a lifetime, and [who] deserves credit as a good vegetable gardener.»

As businessmen the Chinese were well arranged. Clara Ferrin of Tucson observed in 1897 that

adjoining their gardens are small huts built of adobes and ornamented by tin-cans, barley sacks and bushes, in which two or three lovers or «cousins» because they call each other reside together . They are doing all of the ongoing work by hand, pushing steadily along behind the plow ‘I the floor happens to be laid in smooth furrows . When the plants commence to grow they’ve been covered with coal-oil cans to guard them through the sun . The person who offers the item comes into town as early as five o’clock in the morning so your vegetables will not be withered by the sun’s rays and will also be fresh once they get to the market . All that morning he goes house to house selling vegetables from a strong, but shabby wagon. Their types of company are precise . They’ve their customers that are special keep the account by marking down regarding the casement for the door the amount purchased every day as well as the end of the thirty days they will have not the problem of earning out bills. After attempting to sell almost all their vegetables they breakfast with certainly one of their city «cousins» in a grocery store.