The Arizona sentinel., 1891-01-17
Yuma, Yuma County.
 and Arizona.
YUMA Is st ths I;iAsss. .ss soTt.g mi. sssy sity

VIM A Is the the coming city 1 \ O N1 A of Arizona. The town is located upon the South bank of the Great Colorado River, the Nile of the Pacific Coast, navigable for $50 miles, and l65 miles above it's mouth, miles above the line of Baja, California, and P miles above the line of the State of Sonora, Mexico.
 The Colorado river is 1900 feet in width where the s. P. R. R: crosses it; l34i feet above the level of the sea. Low water at the bridge is F feet, and tue highest water known since a record has been kept was 2S feet and inches.
 ARIZONA
 Yuma enjoys s greater amount of sum- shine than any other spot on the North American continent. The record for twelve years shows aR average of 277.4 clear days, and g fair days, leaving only l4.e cloudy days per year, and the least number of clear days recorded in the Territory is 2l0.3 at Fort Grant. which is also credited with an average of III fair days or AZ cloudy days in the year.
 The climate of Yum. for months in the year has no equal in the world, the other months are warm but not too op- pressivs. The atmosphere is clear, pure, dry, light and balmy, tempered by the gulf breszes, and the gentle winds from the mountains. There are no "bliEzards," no "polar waves" no Hurricanes" no fogs. There is no frost even to kill the orange, lemon, or fig. It is the climate for those troubled with lung or throat difficulties, neuralgia or rheumatism, The moisture n the atmosphere as given by the U. S. Signal Service is only from 25 to 30 per cent, while in other localities it is from 75 to 85 per cent. Neither malaria, pneu- monia, nor levers are generated in this section. Taken as a whole, the climate has no equal. The highest shade temperature ever known in Yuma is ll8 degrees. The sensible temperature at this point is SS de- grees. In New York the shade temper. ature being lG5, the sensible heat is 100 or 5 degrees there as against l7 degrees here. YUMA COUNTY,-
 contains 10, l3S square miles, equal to G. 4S8, 320 acres. The Colorado river borders the county on the west for 100 miles, and the Gila crosses it for 100 miles. The two rivers unite at Yuma. Bill Williams Fork river bounds the county OH the north for 50 miles. The county is 90 miles in length north and south by 70 wide east and west 2,Ooo, 600 ACRES OF LAND.-
 Below Yuma, and upon both sides of :he Colorado river lies the largest area of rich bottom, valley, and mesa lands, that is to be found in one body on the Pacific Coast. It extends on the west side from $. P. R. R. southerly nearly to San Felipe on the Gulf of California, 200 miles and back to the main range, in places for lQQ milRa, while On the east side 1t reaches from Yuma to Port Isabel, l5O miles and back for 30 miles more or less.
 THE SOIL OF THE VALLEY LANDS is deep. dark gray. brownish, or reddish sedimentary and alluyiel deposit, from 3 to 20 feet Tn depGh, resting on g clay subsoil, which forms hard-paq impervious to water. The soil is made up from the de- composition of granite, limestones, marls. shales and sandstones, which has been mix ed with vegetable matter, aliuvial loams and other matter washed down fer ages by the ancient rivers and deposited during the cycles of time. The soil is as rich as that of tbe Nile in Egypt, which it resembles, both in coloys, and analysis. Our soils are richer than those of tho Nile, in carbonate ot Eme and phosphoric acid, but carry 8 little less potassa. The mesa lands possess far different soil. The lime, magnesia, chalk and potash render the soil most fertile and especially adapted for the olive, lime, lemon, orange, 6g grape and other fruits. The valleys, mesas, 4plaRds and hills above Yuma are just as rich and pre- ductive and in time will be the homes of hundreds of families.
 MINERALS AND MINES.-
 Yuma countyi is rich in gold, silver,