The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
The Colorado Desert:

Iudl DOTtlUu Oi lG IuS USIWcc the Colorado river and the Sd GorgoniU Pass has always been garded as the worst of if, and hopelessly irreclaimable: T following from the Los Ahge Herald gives different idea of and shows what reclamati0Aj desert land means. Indio ial new railroad statiCh eataH .l! at Indian Wells.
 EDITOR HERALD:
 In view of the fact that there are many persons in Southern. California who are in search O4 good and cheap homes, 1 desire, 10 state through the columns of your valuable paper that the great Colorado Basin offers extra inducements to parties who would settle on and cultivate the eOfl O that locality,
 There is in one body of land ly ing southeast Of Indio station oy about 60,0O0 acres of as fine land as can be found in the State q California. An abundance good water can be found by dia ging wells from a depth of fot 10 eight feet. The soil is fir sediment, such as is found in tn river bottom of the COlorad' There are some mesquit trees O the labd-enOugh for fuel, but un it for any other purpose, beip small and Scrubby.
 The climate is warmj bat nd more so than the Sacramento O San Joaquin valleys, in the Sum mer season, but much warmer the Winter. In fact, we have n season that can justly be callf Winter. In this country frost unknown and vegetables " grow as well in one month as st other. The greatest induceme 60 cultivate the soil of the CQ radO Basin is, that vegetables every description can be placed market from there when they be had from no other lOcality,a q at time when handsome prof can be realized by the produced Fruits of every variety cultivat in Southern California would u doubtedly flourish on these land Here am persuaded the bang would be in its native elem9 ana yield profitable returns. anges, Times and lemons vol probably do as we'll here as in islands or Central America, the climate is about the same.
 ate ripe Mission grapes were raised here, six weeks The Mission is one of the laU varieties to ripen, and will not pen in Los Angeles before Sd tember, thus proving the great vantages of the desert over Angeles for early fruits. OT ranch known as TOrOs, and owned and worked by MT. Brown, oats. corn, alfalfa, IT grapes, strawberries and other varieties of fIuits and VI tables may be seen growing ran& luXuriahce: MT. Brown cuts his alfalfa cry twenty-One days; and, vi l saw 1t, it was more than feet high. MT. Brown inform me that it was then only fi1 days since he had cut showed me patches of corn ed in every month since JalS last, and l was convinced tha planted in any month of the would yield q good harvest.
 Several parties have secXez tracts of this land by locations hf der the Desert Act and by home stead, pre-emption and soldier warrants. There is yet lara body of it open to the settle Some of the gentlemen who h; taken claims here will, l am formed, bring water on and pl large vineyards and orchards tn coming Fall. At present the pros poets are very favorable for larg and prosperous settlement Tn thd ColoradO-- Basin. The Southern Pacific Railway runs through thiA land, giving an outlet either tc Arizona or the seashore for pro duce raised here. In the moan tains adjacent gold. silver an.i other metals have been discOy cred, and the discoveries are Sd to be very rich.
 Mir. Jesus Lopez lately discoy cred near Indian Wells a very e tensive asbestos mine. whic promises t0 make him bonan ist. Messrs. Rousseau & Blackn will soon have their eXtens numbering establishment. White Water in motion, and .lum Der for the improvement of land on tfle desert can be had at mod crate figure. SPIKE.