Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-15
Riehe. Of the Colorado.
san Diego News.


 The News has referred several times Co tle immense wealth ILls county possesses. both il mlneral- and agrl- cultural resources. along Inc Colorado rlveI That region has seemed ti-- tau-. yet lt VIII not really Dc i,r away -u tLe completion Ci iAe California Southern Ral.rozC. and Will be s.il nearer when tLe connection is made with that road aLd the Atlantic and Pacific
 We have had the pleasure to meet a gentleman lately from the distant part of san Diego county, NIT. Ira L. West. and informed ourselves oi tue developments 01 the Colorado river set on iool by the late MT- Galloway and kept up by MT. I. H. Blythe The SO. .6OO-ac-e tract located by those gentlemen fO- colonization ls called ;. Swamp and Oveifi0wed District No BIO Its center and prospective town is called Blythe City. This nIace is seven miles from he proposed line Of the Atlantic and Pacluc1 1ve miles iIom the Colorado rlver, and loo miles from Yuma uy road or water. slIn The immediate vicinity are valuable placerS. and good success has been mel with by The use oi dTJ wasLeTs. Within 50 miles quartz mines of gold, silver and copper are u-ontably worked. The canal taken rom the Colorado, which ls &J iesI wide on the bottom and carries uye feet of water. still being extended, affords au ample supply 0i wafer now for eight square miles oi teTuiDfy The point On the river for taking out the water 1 ad been most judiciOu-ly chosen. for the water ps>~e- from The river between solid, rocky banks It is believed that Do better uriI can be chosen for the cultivation Oi The Louisiana sugar cane than thi>. Al. the citrus fruits, ETspes and cereals do well. Experiments with all these have brought the most satisfactory results and sufficiently so with the sugar cane Go warrant the erection of machinery for sugar man Ulacuure, which is actually proposed Go be done this year. l. Is region of very slight frO-is; orange trees just taken rom the nursery survived the iTusts of last winter, the severest ever remembered on the Colorado. The transportation facilities will always be excellent and cheap, and markets will be found for d good deal of pro- duce at home.
 The terms on which land can be procured, with water, are quite lib- cral. The total sum charged per acre Of land, with water. Is SlO, but the payments are -n well timed that the sett .r can e4~I.y I.f H.s iustallments from the proceeds oi his produce. NJ payment is asked for the first year, but in the second year Sl.jO Is re- quired, iL tLe third year S2.J0 ID the fourth year S2. jO, and in the fifth g. jG, without interest.
 Fifteen thousand grape vines have been planted, and are iiOuTishiug also, aIple- peaches, apricots, figs, oranges and limes. Grapes mature tEO months carlIer than Iu southern l California. Al pre-eut there are about l 9 seitler>. A sChOOlLOuse is in pro- ! cess of construction
 The Indian a ta- vicinity, Mo ! javes and Mojaye luu.es. are peaCea- l J'e and industrious. They work well ! and steadily for lour bits day and ] board. The land i- free from that . pest oi CaliiorGia. the gopher, and | alfalfa grows admirably.
 No more delightful climate can be | found on the earth for nine months of 1 the year, but for three months it Is not uucOmmuu f"I the thermometer Go indicate no degrees iu the shade.