Arizona republican., 1893-05-14
FUTURE YUMA. u Future Not so Very
 Far Distant. ,,bat Will Make it a
 PopuIous City.
,ompIishment of the Yuma ,,,ver and Light Company.
coIorado River Irrigation Com .,,y, The Algodones Land Com many and Other Causes

prprgLrcAN reporter yesterday met ,i,.JL. Van Derwerker of Yuma . ,Ss Commercial hotel. Judge Van n.rsrker is generally enthusiastic p S,nt Arizona and particularly so & S,0t Yuma and it's vicinity. In the ' .rr.s of conversation on the subject ''a he substantially:
 m, ia doubtful if there is another .,, in the United States where so .Dv important improvements involv- ' "" :o great sn expenditure of capital I.s in anticipation of so great results '.s in actual progress as are now going 0;n inc vicinity of Yuma. To des. ..;bs , them as in a state of actual pro. ...,s hardly conveys a correct idea as ], Isast one of them has been com '.,ed and only awaits extension. Re- .,spce is particularly made to the Srms @ Water and Light Co.,, 8 creation T T W. Blsisiell. The company was mmed with the object of furnishing water supply for Yuma, of irrigsting 'GO acres of citrus fruit land and of s.,bshing is connection an extensive .,r,ric light and power plant. These as,noses have all been fulfilled. The Fr.r is drawn from the Colorado by ,r immense pumping system to which Sere are in the world only two similar, o1s at Paris, France, the other at Toronto, Canada. The plant at Yuma kipr the latest possesses improve nspts and facilities superior to those of hs other two. Its capacity is 5000, ,0U0 ,,Iops per day or 600 miners inches. |ibs land to be reclaimed being prscti- aDy irOstess is especially adapted to be growth of oranges and lemons and i, bound within a very few years to be Ursdered the chief citrus fruit section in inc United States. Of the 5000 ares % be irrigated 800 acres are al- ,esiv m alfalfa. This i' being sold at |,Dl per acre the raw land is not on .s tall. This fall Mir. Blaisdell will cll in pipe line which will irrigats nu,h larger area. The special adapta- Ibiiy of the Yuma soil and climate to he growth of citrus and semi tropical rUt. i. already well established and it hn needed only the energy and genius d Blaisdell 10 bring these possibilities b the highest development. Fruits Eisn here two weeks earlier than any Vlere else north of the Mexican line {; They are of acknowledged superiority a sle, color and flavor. Figs of this Rsson are already ripe; it has been so Qlg since apricots ripened that the people can not exactly remember the tine.
 fruit growing will of course be the thist cause of fuma's future greatness, though by no means the only one.
 Vow that success is assured it is pNper to say something of the man 'hO has been more emiDentiy con EbUlOry to it."
 Continued MT. Vanderwerker: Than Nr. Blaisdell there is no bet td known nor more successful mining sgneer in the country. He accumu- i,sd wealth operating at various places tbe territory, but particularly at NO BlancO, and he has seen in his ex- s.tnt judgment, no better way to in- reI:e 1t than in developing the re- nurces of the country about Yuma. Hsldgment is considered infsilible
 eastern capitalists, among whom he n wide acquaintance and con- tllentIy almost unlimited capital has ben placed at his disposal for invest asnt in any project judged by him to feasible and profitable"
 The judge then spoke of the Algodo- -a Land Co: Another of the great inPJ:iiions is the Algodones Land Co.,, 'ao'e territory is embraced in the Aiodones grant, recently confirmed by a9colrt of private land claims. This bottom land of unsurpassed fertility Nl supplied by a never failing irriga-
 system. The land is divided into ana 2rscre tracts, which are being 14MS5O per acre with water right,
 aet'ng of the board of directors of accompany is now being held in Den 4 NThich it ia understood the price
 ana will be raised to $l00 per acre. u' intention of the board at this meet. t"'o decide upon plans for the en-
 FneIt Of the irrigation plant so as "cGGlde a much greater area"
 von'Inued he: Though not an Ari- '~' enterprise, the Colorado River IT,