Arizona republican., 1892-08-07

of his son was found less than mile from water in two places.
 Col. D. k. Allen, who spent nearly year in that section in examining the lands of the International company, of MexIco, and whose business it was to search out every stream, spring and hole of water, says that there Is not a spot in that whole valley which is ninety miles in length and twenty wide where a man can ges where he would be more than twelve miles from good water. The whole truth of the matter $ that the men Breedlove and Fish. were more than foolish 10 attempt to explore country in mid-summcr into which they never had been, with only one small cantesn of water, and with uo guide to show them where the water could be found. They could have secured an Indian for $I per day who knows every foot Oi that section, and yet they went alone and virtually without water and now have paid the penalty of their folly with their lives. Even with these facts before them you will read the comments of penny a-liners" in their local obscure sheets, blaming the country coudemning, the wealth of the section and warning pco- pie to stay out of 1t. The valley in which these men perished is nothing compared with the White Hills, new mining region in Mohave county, where every drop of water used in the camp had tO be carried eight miles on burros' backs, or nothing compared with the new gold mines at San An tonic, near the Gulf of California and west of Altar iu Sonora. where all the water used by the 200 men in that camp has to be carried over the hills for twen- ty-fve miles.
 There are not less than 30, 0,000 acres of wild hemp on both sides of the Colo rado river, below Yuma, that will yield 5OJ pounds of the prepared fibre per acre in the very poorest years anl in good years it will average ,50O pounds to the acre. At the least estimate we have 25,0OJ,000 pounds of the dressed fibre as the result of the crop in the poorest year, or an amount equal to 2,5l0 carloads of ten tons each, a nice
 little thing for the railroad alone. IL makes the finest paper, good rope cord and twine, the best bagging and mat ting, fine cloth and material for shirt lllEg AiNNH SODNo hlIh ONiANl lhbtlNcs
 Captain Ingalls, idea was to use the of the hemp into the different varieties of products named, but he says that he was so hampered up- on all sides that he was able 10 accomplish nothing at all. learn from Col. D. k. Allen who examined it for an English company who says that it grows on the banks oi the sloughs, along the streams and on the lands that over flow every year from the Colorado river. He confirms the above acreage and more, says that small fiat boats can be run in the sloughs and that it can be cut and loaded on to them and ilOated out to the river where it can be loaded upon larger boats or steamers and taken up to Yuma and placed upon railroad cars, or it can be taken to the mouth oi the river and loaded upon large vessels and cent to any part of the world. He says that for from two to four months every year employment can be given to not less than z000 per. sons and that Il manufactured here, it wlil keep l6JO men at won k all the year, Cocopah Indians can be had to harvest the whole crop. 1t grows to be from ten tC twenty-five feet in height. The samples that have seen here in Yuma average from twelve to fifteen feet in length and am told that it IS us thick on the ground as it cRn stand. ItI comes up immediately after the reced ing of the water after the overflow anu ripens in September and can he cut until December.
 The board of school trustees, all eX- cellent men, are struggling wllh the problem of building $l0,00O tchool house for $3,0C0. Yuma needs good school building. She has none at all. The trustees want to please every hody, but so far they seemed to have pleased no one. Out of some fifty applications we have no teachers as yet secured. Now many of the people, and among them are the largest property holders. believe that it would be beet to build sl0,0O0 school building, tbe