Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-09-27
YUMA COUNTY.
THE NEWS AT THE GATEWAY OF
 ARIZONA.
Reopening of the Indian SchooI---Good Place for Miners---Saie of Rich Val ley Lands---A Thrifty Indian
 Miner---Other
 Items.
 Yuma Sentinel.
Yuma Sentinel

The Fort Yuma Indian school was re- opened on Monday last with ninety-five children in attendance. During vacation the school and other buildings had been repaired throughout and neatly repainted. Wherever needed, changes have been made in the old quarters and the grounds nicely laid out in lawn and garden. The pupils seemed glad that their school ex- ercises were under way and entered into their duties with energetic enthusiasm. The Fort Yuma Indian school is under the kind charge of the Sisters of St. Jo- seph. Mother Superior M. Ambrosla acts as superintendent of this model institu- tion. The ladies in charge are always pleased to receive visitors at the school and by their kind welcome make the h. dian school favorite place for Yumaites to visit.
 Skilled miners do not have to go out of Yuma county to make stake" If pla- cer work is not tasteful, the muscular seeker after wealth can find a score of low grade mines near the Colorado river in this county, which can be worked with profit and ease by concentrating, shipping to San Francisco and receiving therefor the bright and fascinating double eagles in quantities to suit"
 One thousand nine hundred and twen- ty acres of the most fertile and best locat- ed land in the Mohawk valley Is now be- ing cleared and put into shape for imme- diate cultivation. This fine body of land is owned by M. A. Dorn, R. J. Davis, both of San Francisco, and Isaac Rudi- sell of this county. The land is situated in the lower end of the great Mohawk valley, and possesses in addition to its fertility other natural advantages which make it particularly valuable.
 The purchase by the Tabscott syndicate of an immense tract of Colorado river valley land, below Yuma, and the propos- ed cultivation of the same, is sure to re- suit in the settling up of not only that section, but the adjoining country, and thereby add to the commercial impor- tance of Yuma-the soon to be New Or leans of the west.
 La-Oche, an old Papago Indian miner, brought into town few weeks ago gold dust to the amount of ffty-nine dollars, representing one weeks labor in the Gila City placers. This. of course, was very unusual return in so short time, but La Oche says that he never earns less than two dollars and fifty cents per day in the Gila City placers, and that without work ing very hard.
 J Burns and Charley Lee, well known miners, came in from the Pot Hole pla- cers yesterday for the purpose of purchas- ing supplies They report the mines of their district as being in prosperous condition and producing gold in paying quantities.
 Travel on the Southern Pacific contin- ues to increase, and from statements al- ready published of the excursions to the west, the number of visitors will be great CT than in the 1S96-7 boom time.
 D. A. Lindley, of Sacramento, has clear ed five hundred acres of land in the Mo hawk valley, three hundred of which will be planted in wheat and two hundred in barley.
 Seventy-ive acres of alfalfa hay from George Norton's ranch in the Mowhawk valley, the fifth cutting this season, has just been baled, and is now ready fol market.
 James Ryan has large crop of late watermelons on his Mohawk valley ranch which command ready sale on account ol their excellence.
 Yuma Indians are now earning consid erahle money selling pottery and beaC work
 Yuma lemons are ripening and vii soon be in condition for shipment.