The Arizona sentinel., 1886-06-19
MOHAWK VALLEY NEWS,
"BY HAYSEED"

1ue 1uuldilS UrOuSnG III IOur DlS, IaI UldcA tail deer and several antelope last Monday.
 The weather is quite pleasant for this time of the year and no musquitos to bother fellow like they do at Yuma.
 Plenty of fish in the Gila river now, and they take the hook very well, several Color ado salmon having been caught that weigh ed 10 pounds each.
 Several wagon loads of new barley, from Alvarados ranch, were sold to the contrac- tor Tuesday last It is A, Mo- barley with large well-hlled grains.
 The engineering party under L. D. Chill son, now making the final location of the lower portion of the canal, are camped about F miles below the head-gate, to-day, the 18th inst
 The canal work is going steadily on, 10 scraper teams being at work. Labores are scarce, most of them having gone to Califor- mia to work in the harvest field. The con- tractor has a lot of Indians at work who make very good hands after about two days instruction in the art of handling scraper.
 An intelligent citizen of Arizona called at our office last week to congratulate us on the inauguration of our paper as the leading champion of irrigation in the West. He re- marked that Arizonians were watching the progress of irrigation enterprise in California with deepest interest, and thus far had mod elled their irrigation works and colonization methods after those of the Golden State They received the announcement of the late famous decision in the riparian case with the utmost surprise and consternation as in the absence of statutory law they had here tofore taken Californian precedents in all civil actions where rights of property are ir- volved, considering that as their conditions Of climate, etc., were similar to ours; the law rulings resulting from our large ex- perience were as good guides as they could have. They now see that so far as water rights for irrigation are concerned, they can follow our lead no longer, and must call halt, or ruin will overwhelm them. No ag- riculture is possible there without irrigation, and to give their water up to private owner ship of riparian proprietors would bring about the same ruinous condition as that which once before overwhelmed theformelly l extensive irrigation works of Arizona in pre- | historic times-a result doubtless brought l about, as Senator Reddy suggested in the last Legislature, by decision of an Aztec | Supreme Court in favor of riparian rights. Land and Water.
 The Yucca plant, or better known as the Spanish bayenet, which abounds so plenti- fully in many portions of Yuma-co, makes most excellent rope. A factory for the util- ization of this plant is now being erected in Los Angeles.
 Our citizens can make another big strike by organizing company to take water out out of the Colorado river for irrigating pur- poses. It can be done at a reasonable cost and the benefits would be beyond estima- tion.
 Orders have been received here by Court Commissioner Jos. J. Stein, to adjourn the district court next Monday for one day, and continue to adjourn it from day to day un. til Judge Barnes arrives who will open the term here.
 Mir. $. Cererro, who for the past few months has been the popular manager of the 5. F. Hotel, has resigned, much to the re- 5ret of the public and disadvantage of the lotel.
 Cool, pleasant weather still holds out and hose who generally go to the coast during the heated term, still remain here.
 NOTICE.
 The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
 SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD CON-
 PANY, (of Arizona) will be held at the office of the Company, n City of San Francisco, State of Califor- lia, on
 THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JULY 1886, at ten o'clock a. m., to elect directors for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting,
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