Perhaps Not not even close to most towns were Chinese-tended vegetable gardens. Within the Clifton area the guys coordinated their efforts in cultivating fresh produce over the banks of this Gila River near Guthrie. Every a couple of weeks, six Chinese from Clifton would head out to the gardens to relieve another combined band of six, who does then come back to city. 19 The gardens at Fairbank, in southern Arizona, provided fresh produce for Tombstone and Benson. Over the Santa Cruz River near Tucson several parcels of 
land had been leased into the 188os to Chinese farmers.
Over a hundred acres into the Tucson area had been being cultivated by the Chinese at the moment. Much of the land ended up being owned by Leopoldo Carillo, Samuel Hughes, Solomon Warner and the Sisters of St. Joseph. During among the water-rights hearings in 1883, a witness compared Chinese and Mexican gardens. A Mr. Stephens testified that the Chinese gardener
“raises cabbages, garlic as well as in reality every thing into the vegetable line from an artichoke to the biggest cabbage, and also the chinaman causes it to be a matter of business in which he creates all he is able to, so that as usually as he possibly can. The garden that is mexican a few chili peppers, onions, garbanzos, beans, melons & etc . ” 20
These fresh produce plots were irrigated from acequias twice more frequently as industries of wheat, barley and cotton. The Chinese gardens south of Sisters’ Lane required water continuously, and several for the townspeople thought this circulation of water ended up being unfair. Continue reading “These newcomers found other occupations available in copper mining, domestic services and truck gardening after their initial settlement.”