Western Railroad Discussion > Disappearing C(scenes) from the Valley of the Sun

Valley of the Sun or Phoenix more commonly called, was once rich in agriculture.In fact, the five C"s of Arizona are climate,cotton,citrus ,copper and cattle..The cotton "c" is rapidly dissappearing from the Valley and giving way to suburbanization.But,east of Magma there  is still cotton farms.This is the Union Pacific's  former Southern Pacific Phoenix Subdivision.All images from late 2017.Bill Webb

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I'm new to AZ (just over a year) and am learning about the great diversity of climate and biomes in this state. There's still a cotton field next to the Queen Creek Olive Mill (and olive trees) just southeast of Phoenix. I ran across a cotton gin a couple of weeks ago, between Globe and Safford. There are still a few citrus groves around here in Mesa, although home construction has taken many of them out. Agriculture is still fairly important here, at least in some areas. 

 

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Good thread.
JB

Interesting thread with weird implications. The ex-SF branch from El Mirage to Fennemore is happily still in business
because of an ag related fertilizer business at Fennemore (plus the LPG storage spots). This is all protected by the
no-build zone around Luke AFB which manages to still support a sizeable amount of agriculture. If Luke closes all bets
are off but for the moment things still grow in the Pnoenix metro.

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