Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-12-24
YUMA REGISTERING.
Irrigating Schemes Progressing, Houses Going Up, and Much
 Activity.
Bright Rewsy Letter from Our Spe- cial Correspondent on the Co.,
 lOrado.

A faw rardam notes from tropical Yu- ma may interest some CITIZEN readers
 for l am aware that eyes from every
 point of the compass are directed hitheY
 ward, patiently waiting the result of the irrigation experiments in progress. The Blalsdell scheme of pumping water from the Colorado, forcing he same l through large wooGsn pipes into reser- voirs about hundred feet above the river to jrrgate me lands south of the town IS making very satisfactory pro- g-ess. Al inc men and teams are em- ployed that can be secured and worked to advantage, and judging from appear ances 1t may not be many months before the enterprise of furnishing an abun- ance of water for the mesa and for the town will be accomplished. The cleo trIc light plant, an 8, junct of the Blais- dell pumping schsme, is to be adjusted in a few days. The grading of Orange avenue Is nearly completed. but the largest and most expensive work yet re- mains in paving it and tree planting along the border. Men and teams are preparing the sol for alfalfa and trees The garden and nursery department is under the supervision of Mir. Freeeorn. who IS said to be an expert in that lne. Several buildings have being erected on the site some two miles south of the depCt and hers projected.
 The Great Colorado Canal company has lately completed one survey on the west side, and he englnesTs have sIrce returned to the mOu h.Of Eureka canyon to make anOt1eF survey Wi,h the ayowed purposs Of locating hs'r canal ten feet higher than ths jora CT survey put l..
 According to r-pGrts there are aOOut twenty IoCagors or the Colorado bJ.tom lands oD the California side of the river op5o5ite YuTa. There ems to be some mUduIs in the Los Angeles Land Office relative to these land. The Yu- ma h iian authorities show map issued " he Interior Department. which de- fines Jne Indian reservation to extend from Plot Knob, six miles b low, to near the Pot hole mines, twelve miles above. l. IS sad tlay some scheming ia.e faces ID more recent yeafs rave enNneeTed a petition throUgh iu some way, reducing the aral of pcor L0 70 only thrse miles square. Friends Of the Yuma are now iHterCeding for am and the yro5ab.l- Isies are that his whit brothers will s0O2ero- later have to move eff. The railroad comDanV was prompt n Tecog- niz.Dg tne t-ie-s' rguts L. these lands and pald some of them Sl30 each for ~.gst of wy tO change r-adbcd t. rha new one nov being built. O. course the Southern Pac!tic Company would be O9ly.Oe too glad to have tEese lRL ds sever ed trlm m t2e reservation, as much of it wll! eventually become valuable.
 \ recent ylst Co the ILdian school confirmed my mind the current re- pot ot encouraging progress being made by the InCian youth; especially useful ! IS the instruction they gre receIving m the carpentry IiLe under MT. Mander, 1 and sLoemak!ng under the tutelaga of | MT. Martin. These two aDpOintees seem the least concerned about the fu- i tura of any who hold public positions l hereebOuts. They say inc civil service ] protects them.
 1t is rumOred that the positions here | to be left vacant soon after Gro | yer again hangs up his hat in the White l House may al be filled credi;ably by | resident Democrats.
 D. M. Fields, assemblyman-elect. SAYS | h. IS besieged witt 1eqdests to have this ! hat ard ths other law enacted at the | forthcoming eessiCn. Supervisor elect | Harazthy of GIia city contemylates pur- ci as nG lot, upon which to construct a | dwelling house, and removing is fami- ly here. A number of buildings are now under construction. amoBg them | one by Contractor Woodman for his | family. It wIil ornament Orange ave- nue.
 Mrs Stecy,mojhsr of the Stacy Broth | CTS, has hOmesteaded the quarter sec tlon near town, lately claimed by Sarah | \. Smith. \ contract has been let to | erect 9 house Oo the land.
 The weather, on the 18th, was 26 de- | grees above zero, the co.dest of this | year.
 Capt. McClernano inspected Compa- ny H. on the 12th, and conplimented | the boys highly on the progress they have made since his visit last year. He l, Capt. Ingalis as the com handing officer to whom much creui5 is | due.
 F.B.L.
 Yuma, Dec. I4, 1892.