The Arizona sentinel., 1892-12-17
AGRECUETUEs .AEssZONA
Fancy Gardening for EGTIa Early Tomatoes at s3,0OO a Carload.

The future of Arizona is agricul
 tural. Cattle and mining will hay
 their places in time to come, bu
 they will step back for the less pre- 9 carious resources of the combina- tion of fertile but useless land anC
 abundant though wasted water. Such is the case particularly a
 Yuma vicinity. Here the murky abundance of the Colorado, hitherto passed nearly unheeded, must b'
 yielded mp to the parched wastes
 adjacent. There have been schemes
 and schemes for the utilization o-
 the water, of pumping and by cana
 systems, but until of late they have
 materialized in little. Now it is
 otherwise.
 Two large and fine boilers 15C
 horse power each, are being placed
 for the Yuma Heights Irrigation Co.
 H. w. Blaisdell, superintendent,
 on the banks of the Colorado near
 the prison. The pump which they
 will operate will throw continuous
 ly stream twenty-six inches in
 diameter.
 Tha land to be irrigated is a tract of over 1000 acres on the mesa ad- iacent to town. This land will be divided into ten acre tracts, each of which will furnish an ample income for a family. This year it will sown to alfalfa, which the following year will be plowed under to enrich en the land.
 In the spring of 1894 it will be regularly open for business. Then it will be planted to vegetables and fruit trees, the vegetables furnish ing e livelihood for the settlers awaiting the growth of the fruit trees.
 That it will be profitable to all concerned need never for moment be doubted. One feature proposed is the raising of early tomatoes for the market. This, at present is done at Crystal Springs, Miss, where the plant is set out as early as April lst, the vegetable reaching market by June 1st, Yuma will be a lively rival. The last frosts are those of January, and the plants can be set out February lst. There fore Yuma tomatoes, in carload lots, can be placed in the eastern market sixty days earlier than the Mississippi article. Enormous prices can thus be realized--$3, ,O0O per car, it is estimated. Shipments of a carload day are expected.
 One of the beauties of the propo- sition is the fertilization. The water of the Colorado contains von- derful fertilizing elements, and for tunately such is the land to be irri- gated needs. Prof. Gulley of the Agricultural Experiment Station, estimates the value of the fertility of the Colorado $7.50 per acre per with ordinary irrigation. Thus of the $10 per acre expended Or water by the settler, $7.5O of it comes back in fertilizier.
 The finest avenue in Arizona, one hat will indeed rival the famous Nognolia avenue of Riverside, Cal, s now undergoing grading here. t connects Yuma with the Blais- Tell tract. It will be lined with ows of orange trees. The width throughout will be eighty feet. Gasy grades and graceful curves, hade in plenty, and happy homes m either side will in the future haracterize Orange avenue, of Iuma,. Arizona.
 Another feature of this worthy nterprise will be the furnishing of f Yuma city with electric lights and Z Tater. About 300 lights will be upplied. The company will con !; ract to place water wherever want d, and bind themselves to furnish he same-which the present com T any would not do.-Tucson Star. When The Heart is Affected 'y Rheumatism, or any of the f muscles near that organ, it is like c with an electric wire, for c oofb y,oou ooooa of opv ,,oO,,,npf Y