The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1893-01-07
THE SOUTH CHA CAN Ar
COMPANY.

Inc SOuVn Olta 70. Is a COI ROA"NAOh
existing by virtue of and under the
laws of Arizona. Its water rights and
reservoir system are held in strict
compliance with the Laws of the Uni
ted States. These two facts give it a
basis as solid and enduring as that of
the government under and by virtue OF
which it exists.
The main canal will be over seventy
miles long with mean width OF forty
feet, and an average flow of six feet
depth of water, and will cover l6I,-
900 acres of land, 5000 acres of river
bottom, and $4,000 acres mesa o,
upland, all of the finest quality.
The first twelve miles of the Canal
will be a continuous reservoir covering
5000 acres, with eleven feet depth of
water to draw from. The head of the
Canal is at the west end or outlet of
the Oatman Canon on the ella River
in Maricopa County. It's outlet into
the river for waste water will be at the
extreme point of the Mohawk noun
tains in Yuma County, a distance
from the head in an air line, of about
fifty miles. Opposite Texas Hill Sta
ton, on the Southern Pacific railway,
it will be twenty miles distant from
the river, with smooth, level plain
Intervening, all of which will be irri-
gable from the Canal and its laterals.
The railway runs twenty miles through
the lands, covered by the Canal divi-
ding it nearly in the center, thus
epualizing the distance from the road
In manner unequaled by any other
enterprise on the Pacific coast. its
Railroad facilities are not prospective,
but have been an accomplished fact for
the last fourteen years. The Southern
Pacific is the most important of all the
trans continental lines for the reason
of its location below the snow belt in
land of perpetual sunshine. Thus
cheap and rapid transportion is already
assured for the products of the hus-
bandmal, with eager markets for the
early vegetables and fruits that must
seek an outlet.
LANDS UNDER THE CANAL.
The one great feature of this enter
prise is that the lands covered by the
South ella Canal are all government
lands, and may be entered by actual
settlers in quantities not exceeding
800 acres as desert land, or l60 acres
as Homestead and l60 desert, but I'D
der one or both acts not exceeding 800 |
acres. The comparison between such
an opportunity and that offered in
other localities is the difference be-
tween water at $25 an acre, the charge
the South ella Canal Co. makes, and !
government land and water at 500 |
an acre and land from 500 to $500 |
per acre. Under this system and the
amended land laws it will cost the
settler as follows: Desert Land Entry,
$l.25 per acre; Improvements as per
the law, $500 per acre; water from
Co., S25, making $29.25 per acre with
a patent from the Uuited States.
1t is safe proposition that every
acre of the land under the South ella
Canal will be worth $50 per acre as
soon as the water touches it, and much
OF 1t near the towns and line of railroad
one hundred dollars per acre. Such
being the case, the purchase of water
location of land under the South ella
Canal is the safest investment a man
can make, and sure to return him an
hundred fold within three years from
date of purchase.
WATER RENTAL.
The annual charges for water has