Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-24
Yuma Items.
Vuma Sentinel.l

The placer camps in the vicinity of Ehrenberg, are all producing the vel low metal in paying quantities.
 The Colorado river has washed away most of the fields of corn. which were supplying the Yuma market with roasting ears.
 E. K Converse and two other pros pector have struck a narrow vein, (twelve inches) of gold rock at camp Cholla; the Gre assays one thousand dallars per ton.
 Captain Jose a well-known Yuma Indian, died here Thursday morning of lung trouble, and in the afternoon his body was cremated.
 Plump wheat grown this season by the Yuma Indians, is now being sold on the streets.
 There is q patch of peanut vines growing in Mrs. Geo. W. Norton's gar den, which for rapid and thick growth cannot be excelled and the vines are sure to produce big crop.
 It is said that H. w. Blaidsdell will build reservoir twelve feet deep and covering twelve hundred and eighty acres for storing water for the Araby canal.
 A wide ledge of rich gold quartz has been found by Ed. Pierce, in the Cas- tie Dome range, few miles north of George w. Norton's ranch in the Mohawk valley. The mine is owned by Ed Pierce and Geo. w. Norton.
 J. Bates one of the representatives of an English syndicate; who has been examining the Harqua Hala mines with a view to purchase, was here on Wednesday. MT. Bates will report favorably on the mines and will recommend their purchase.
 Tom Bennett, miner, was serious ly injured on Tuesday last, by the premature explosion of giant powder, which he was tamping. The unfor- tunate man was brought. to town Thursday, and it was found that in addition to wounds in various parts of the body that his left eye was badly hurt
 The high water in the Colorado river has caused the Yuma Indians to lose heavy crops of wheat, barley and corn. The wheat and barley was being harvested but the unexpected rise in the river soon flooded the bot toms, causing a loss of almost the entire crop.
 Yuma Times.
 The gardens of Hon. c. H. Brinley and Mrs. John Gregg are among the handsomest in the county.
 Several gentlemen have stated that they will plant their lands to lines, lemons and oranges. As Yuma coun- ty is the true citrus region of Arizona, such ventures should return magnifi- cent profits.
 There is some talk to the effect that considerable sums will be expended by outside capitalists in erecting build ings and establishing winter sanitar- ium for consumptives, to be situated within few miles of town, before many months have passed.
 The Yuma county placer fields are be- ing extensively and systematically ex- plotted. With the new and improved machinery already in operation, and an almost unlimited quantity of pay ing gravel available. it is more than likely that a genuine mining boom will result within few months.
 Care should be taken that only the best, most reliable and truest citizens be selected to represent Yuma county in the Sixteenth Legislature, next January It is possible that, in the event of the territory becoming a State, the members will be called up on to select United States Senators.
 The mesquite tree will soon yield large crops of the nutritious beans of which the Indians are so fond. Upon ripening in June or July the Yumas will observe the most pleasant of all ! their ceremOnies-thej joyful mesquite festival. This is made the occasion for frolic, fun and merry making and is annually looked forward to by them with eagerness and ill concealed inn patience.
 It is to be hoped that when dele gates are chosen to represent this county in one or the other of the ter ritorial conventions, that they will be selected by the citizens of either party in mass meetings, or by local conven- tions. The old system is inadequate for modern requirements and the vOt- CTS throughout the country should see to it that their rights are respected,
 The delicious figs, for which Yuma county is famous, are fast becoming plentiful. For early fruit production this section leads any part of the United States. This fact alone is sufficient to make of our grand coun try the finest and most profitable re zion for the orchardist and agricultur ist. As its unique advantages become known capital and immigration vii utilize what nature has left ready tC hand.
 Walnuts, filberts, peanuts, oceans oiduous fruits of almost every variety vegetables of all kind, apgar cane cereals, the textile plants including hemp, cotton and flax, and, in trutl almost everything that can be produced by the gard the orchardist or tn ] farmer, can be successfully and profit . ably raised in Yuma county, as ha ] been demonstrated time and tim again.
 The large pumping plant nea
 Araby will some day this week b started up forcing continuous stream
 of one thousand miners inches of wa ter into the canal. The pump vii supply adequate irrigation facilitie during the few summer months, whel gravity supply cannot be obtaine from the river, to furnish the farmer 7 with sufficient for their needs if eco :, nomically used. The managers of tn Arahy Yuma canal have demonstrate
 their ability to successfully pvercom
 every obstacle that has arisen, an g they are certainly entitled to the gra :. itude of the people of this section, fc
 the reason that the town of Yuma