The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-05-13
Local Correspondence.
LETTER FROM COL. HODGE.

ana lltCl0 TO condemn. me ell
mate in Summer, though ex-
tremely hot, is pure, dry, and
healthy, and for ak or eight
months of the year, it is not ex-
celled by any locality in the world
for health and salubrity. Yuma
is destined to become in the flu
ture, when well known, a famous
and favorite resort for comsump-
tives and all others of weak and
debilitated constitutions. and had
her beautiful, mild and salubrious
climate been pulled and extolled
to half the extent of many places
on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts,
she would to-day be the centre
of attraction for thousands who
have to flee from the cold moth
ern climate of the States, to a
more congenial cline as Winter
resort. But Yuma's day of pros
perity will come in time, and to
hasten this good time, both press
and people should publish the
good tidings abroad of her many
good qualities, and life restoring
purity of air, and salubrity Of eli.
mate.
The wonderful resources of the
bottom lands of the Colorado and
ella Rivers are as yet almost I'M
known even by old residents of
the Territory. By invitation of
the Hon. J. NJ. Redondo l was ena-
bled few days since to visit the
"Redondo Ranch," ten miles east
of town, where [ found a we'll Gull
tivated farm of 800 acres. The
farm or ranch is divided into five
fields of from 80 to $50 acres each.
all in growing crops, as follows !:
Wheat, 60 acres; barley, 500 acres;
wheat, barley and oats for hay.
100 acres; alfalfa, 10 acres; sugar
cane, 90 acres, the ramainder be-
ing in corn, vegetables, fruit, &c.
Three hundred tons of hay are
now being put in stack and the
barley and wheat are nearly ready
for the header. The RedOndO
Brothers commenced their inn
provements only four years since,
and have now no doubt the larg-
est and best cultivated ranch in
the Territory. Their main ace
quia is 8 miles long, and their
small or irrigating acequias over
Is miles long, the construction of
which has cost them over $50, ZOO.
They have all modern and i'm
proved machinery, such as Head
ers, reshers, Mowers, Gang
Flows, Harrows, &C., &C., and
show by what they have already
done, what may be done by
others by energy and persever-
ance. They work % men con-
tinually and in harvest time so
men, paying them $50 per month
and 81 per month in rations. They
keep so work horses and mules.
Yield on an average of wheat and
barley $500 TBS. to the acre, though
they have had a yield of 5000 lbs.
of barley to the acre. Vegetables
of all kinds grow enormously
large and of excellent quality.
They have some fruit, such as
Grapes, Figs, Nectarines, Peach
es, Oranges, &C., all of which give
promise of success. The forego-
ing brief account is enough to sa-
tisfy all cavilers that Arizona is
not what many writers have NAM
ed her, "a barren desert waste"
I have to thank Mr.. D. Neahr
for an examination and full ex-
PLANTATION of the Territorial Prison
now being erected and which
when completed will be perfect
and complete in all its parts. The
Commissioners seem to be doing
all that can be done with the
small appropriation of S25, 900, and
to Mr.. Neahr, who personally SUI
perintends the work free Of charge,