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. Anglo landowners, nevertheless, had been eager to rent available lands to the Chinese for cultivation, often towards the dissatisfaction of others. In a page towards the Presbyterian Home Mission in ny, Superintendent Howard Billman for the Tucson Indian class penned on 26, 1889, that he personally inspected the irrigation practices of the Chinese june. “Some thieving Chinese above us were simply robbing us,” he complained. 21
Therefore Chinese gardeners became the vendors of fresh produce that no other pioneer settler felt it lucrative sufficient to advertise in northern, main and southern Arizona. an interesting location for a yard was even available at the Territorial Prison at Yuma. The Arizona Republic on 10, 1893, reported the institution was in november
“shipshape purchase, the lawns kept well and green with grass, the garden, where formerly calabasas [pumpkins] was raised, happens to be transformed in to a regular French vegetable yard attended by way of a Chinaman that is lodged there for life, and [who] deserves credit as a good vegetable gardener.”
As businessmen the Chinese were well arranged. Clara Ferrin of Tucson noticed in 1897 that
adjoining their gardens are little huts built of adobes and ornamented by tin-cans, barley sacks and bushes, by which 2 or 3 lovers or “cousins” because they call each other live together . They are doing all of the ongoing work by hand, pushing steadily along behind the plow ‘we the floor happens to be laid in smooth furrows . When the flowers begin to develop they have been covered with coal-oil cans to guard them through the sun . The man who offers this product has town as early as five o’clock into the morning so your vegetables will never be withered by sunlight and you will be fresh when they get to the market . All that morning he goes home to accommodate selling vegetables from a strong, but wagon that is shabby. Their types of company have become exact . They’ve their special clients and keep carefully the account by marking straight down in the casement of this home the total amount bought every day and at the conclusion for the month they will have perhaps not the problem of making away bills. After selling nearly all their veggies they breakfast with one of their town “cousins” in a supermarket.